Talk:Steve's Ice Cream

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Assessment[edit]

The article is only just beginning, so it is only classed as Start
Because this company was instrumental in creating the markets for super-premium ice cream, the business concept of high end ice cream chains and customized ice cream desserts, it has an importance of High.
The text "As far as I know" is not Wikipedia style. No first person please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.131.221.92 (talk) 22:11, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notability[edit]

This article meets the four standards of notability:

There is significant coverage of the subject in the independent press;
Look at the citations provided, articles in the the Boston Globe and the New York Times.
The sources are reliable;
The Globe and the Times are considered to be extremely reliable.
The sources are all secondary, or if primary, follow the WP:PSTS guides for primary sources;
Most definitely secondary.
I generated none of the information, am not promoting the products, it is not structured as an ad (no peacock statements) and it is not a press release.

Please understand that this article is only a start at this time and is being expanded. Steve's is an important company in this business:

The company pretty much invented the "super premium" market segment in the ice cream industry;
The concept of the mix-in which spawned a whole series of products and companies that still exist today;
It is not a biography of Steve Herrell, but a look at the company he founded.

- Jeremy (Jerem43 (talk) 18:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Player Piano[edit]

I added the player piano to the article, but had no citations for the dime rental of rolls or Steve rebuilding it, because those are personal knowledge from having patronized Steve's in the late 1970's.

When I got a player piano of my own, I took a book on rebuilding them out of the Cambridge library. Written on the flyleaf was "I rebuilt a player piano using only this book - Steve Herrell." Don't know if I can cite this, though. Bilofsky (talk) 01:22, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mix-ins[edit]

From my personal memory, the candy additions to the ice cream were known as mix-ins at Steve's. They were renamed smoosh-ins when Steve started his new business, Herrell's, probably because the rights to the mix-in name went along with the sale of Steve's. Steve's continued to call them mix-ins until it closed. (I don't have any citations for this, thus not added to the article.) Mdulcey (talk) 14:49, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]