16/03/2009

Remember this Irishman..?!?

Jimeoin opening The Portas

Jimeoin opening The Portas

Oh, yes – who could forget, and it is not St Patrick..!! The coming of famous Irish festival reminded me of the time when Jimeoin visited Wodonga to open the Porta sculpture. He is Irish – so why was I the one dressed in green? Well, anyway, Jimeoin has discovered the sole purpose of these sculptures was for Wodonga to show Albury who’s really got balls (on their side of the Border)… So this St Patrick’s Day let us drink to that !!!

25/02/2009

How Bizarre !!!

At The Daily Scoop we have started the new theme for the month of March in anticipation of the event we’ve been all waiting for – The Wodonga Carnivale – this year the theme is Bizarre! Children from schools around Wodonga are preparing great exhibition of art in the High Grove park under the Water Tower, which you can already see as part of Todos Arte project run by Art Space and Wodonga City Council.

One of the entertainers will be Jugularity

One of the entertainers will be Jugularity


There will be heaps of entertainment, starting with the Lounging into Carnivale with performance by Nicky Bomba who has already staged a gig at Lounging last year. Street parade will start on Saturday 7 March at 4PM, and festivities will continue late into the night with many well known entertainers within the Wodonga CBD. The Daily Scoop is proud to have right outside their door the stage of “Strange on Stanley” with performers including Jugularity, Psycho Zydeco and JUST! Come along and have some fun :-)
There will of course be “Carnivale Recovery” on the following morning with many local food outlets helping you with great coffee during the whole day. If you decide to hang around for the rest of the long weekend, there will be plenty to do still on Monday 9 March 2009!
For more information visit the official page on Wodonga City Council’s website.

03/02/2009

Hot Australian summer

We really have been hit with a hot Australian weather this summer… People are often commenting how good that must be for an ice cream business. Well – not all that much! Spare athought for this poor ice cream van:

Too hot for ice cream

Too hot for ice cream

04/12/2008

Our 1st Birthday !!!

Thank you to all who remembered that they first found their way to our delicious ice cream last year… and asking us when exactly did we open! Well – our 1st birthday is approaching fast. Keep your eyes open for the announcement of the BIG DAY and some special surprises!

25/11/2008

Rainy Days…

After we closed due to bad weather on Saturday some customers have asked us “Why do we close on rainy days?” The simple answer is “we cannot sell enough ice cream…”

We had closed last Saturday and left a sign on the door which read “Closed due to bad weather.” We assess the weather every morning – being especialy cautious if it looks cold and overcast. Rainy, windy and cold days are not good for our sales, people like to walk around with a cone of delicious ice cream when it’s nice and sunny. If we believe the weather will be fine for at least good part of the day we make a batch of ice cream, sometimes we reduce the size and number of flavours. We open at 11Am every day, and by that time it is a bit clearer what the weather is going to be like. However, if the wind or rain picks up, and it remains cold we close the shop for the day. Our estimate of how much is going to be sold is sometimes accurate, sometimes we are left with a lot of unsold ice cream :-)

17/11/2008

Daily Scoop at The Wodonga Children’s Fair

Here we are with our glorious setup! This was the first time we were serving our ice cream away from the shop!

The Daily Scoop marquee

The Daily Scoop marquee

And the pirate theme of this year’s fair suited us really well!

Chief Pirate Sweet Tooth

17/11/2008

New flavour – Mocha

At The Daily Scoop we always look for ways to please our customers with new flavours. After all – new experiences make our life exciting..! So we now have another new flavour to offer – mocha, which is a blend of two of our very popular flavours – chocolate and coffee.

08/11/2008

The Daily Scoop Reward Card

At The Daily Scoop we are very keen to reward our customers loyalty with a reward. We have a card which allows you to collect a free ice cream after seven purchases. Please ask for one – when the shop is busy we sometimes forget to offer you one… Those that fill the card will get a free single scooop of ice cream -  and as an added bonus when you redeem the card we put it into a barrel for a monthly draw of a take home pack of our delicious ice cream! We already had two winners, it was Giselle for the month of September, and tom for the month of October. Try to get into the next draw by filling your card in by end of November!

13/09/2008

First Day of the New Season

Daily Scoop Open for New Season

Daily Scoop Open for New Season

We had a successful first day of the season, with many of our customers coming in delighted that we are back. The first batch of ice cream was excellent and we made 10 flavours to suit the weather – not yet that hot, but with plenty of sunshine! Our first customer at the 11AM opening was surprisingly not a local – Mavis drove to us from Jindera on the other side of Albury. It was her first time to visit The Daily Scoop. She might have thought it is “just another ice cream shop”, but a minute after she walked out with her ice cream she was back with the comment: “I have to tell you – this is yummy!” Well, yes, Mavis seems to be one person that knows good fodd when she tastes it!

11/09/2008

Opening the Second Season!!!

This Friday 12 September 2008 we will be opening our second summer season. We decided to continue with the tradition of cooking fresh delicious ice cream every day using traditional European recipe. Our ice cream is made using the best local ingredients, and we pride ourselves on trying to please even the most discerning gourmet customers.

We will be launching several new products this season and welcome your feedback and suggestions! We will also introduce new staff members which we hope will contribute to our customer service reputation.