What?! How can the ICE CREAM of the future become a thing of our collective past? Dippin’ Dots has filed for bankruptcy.
There’s no money in the tiny frozen-ball game, I guess. There’s no money in setting up shop in malls all across America or in theme parks – the company owes 12 million dollars to Regions Financial Corp, which moved towards a foreclosure on their loan. All this at the end of a losing lawsuit that says the founder of the company didn’t properly file the patents to the freezing process which makes Dippin’ Dots unique – so basically any straggler with half a mind to make ice cream SIMILAR to the ice cream of the future would be able to without getting any suits filed against them.
The company owns about twenty million dollars worth of assets. I guess this is what happens when you use liquid nitrogen to make ice cream — when you could just make ice cream without the added cost that tastes just as good or better, it confuses the consumer irreparably.
Here’s hoping we will live in a world one day where you can not only get any kind of food you want deep fried – you can get it frozen in liquid nitrogen.
Rest in peace, dots.
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