Best Wishes Ice Cream Seeks to Stay in Lake Bluff

Lake Bluff ice cream shop owner Sandy Henderson is poised to offer “best wishes” to a new shop owner or business partner.

Literally.

After five years making and serving up unique ice cream flavors at , Henderson is seeking a new partner or owner after business partner Shellie Norden left to focus on her full-time career at Cardinal Health. 

Due to health reasons, Henderson finds she is unable to perform the physical parts of the job. “There are days I can’t get to the shop and the business suffers because of it,” Henderson said.

She is looking for a partner to assist with Best Wishes' growth.

“It would be great to have patio heaters to extend the season, a small freezer on the sidewalk, expand the flavor selection and have a soft music system," among other improvements, said Henderson. “And, I would also like to grow the restaurant accounts.”

Regardless of what business arrangement can be made, Henderson wants to keep the business at its Scranton Alley location in .

“Whoever comes in, whether a partner or someone buys it outright, I want to have the best ice cream ever and for it to stay there and grow,” Henderson said. “I will show them how to work with the machine, vendors, and accounting to make it easy.”   

The ice cream machine used to mix in real ingredients, such as limejuice in the key lime pie ice cream, is only 5 years old and is the same type used at Culvers. 

Really, “the business is so simple I could not believe it,” Henderson said.

Best Wishes has developed a large kid customer base.

“I try to accommodate all customers by offering competitive prices,” said Henderson. Junior cones are $2.50, regular $3.50 and waffle at $4 with tax included. Sprinkles are 25 cents, and ice cream snicker bars are available for $1.

Henderson hires a handful of kids each summer and is racing now to train them for the summer season.

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