Dippin’ dispute
Company owner takes issue with White House press secretary’s public dislike of his product
Nothing makes friends faster than sharing a cup of Dippin’ Dots ice cream.
That’s the message the Oklahoma City owner of Dippin’ Dots sent Monday to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
Scott Fischer, CEO of Dippin’ Dots, posted an open letter to Spicer on Dippin’ Dots’ website after a series of Spicer tweets about the product that weren’t very flattering were played up online.
“Dippin dots is NOT the ice cream of the future,” a Spicer tweet from April 2010 read. He followed that with another in November 2011, with a link to a related story: “Ice Cream of the Past: Dippin’ Dots Files for Bankruptcy.”
Finally, in September 2015, he tweeted this, apparently from a Washington Nationals baseball game: “If Dippin Dots was truly the ice cream of the future they would not have run out of vanilla cc @Nationals.”
Fischer wrote in his letter that he wanted Spicer to know Dippin’ Dots understands ice cream is a serious matter to the press secretary.
Fischer wrote he also understands that “running out of your favorite flavor can feel like a national emergency.”
“We’ve seen your tweets and would like to be friends rather than foes. After all, we believe in connecting the dots,” Fischer wrote.
He also informed Spicer that Dippin’ Dots is doing quite well as a company these days.
Fischer Enterprises bought the company out of bankruptcy for $12.7 million. Since then, it has focused on selling new franchises and co-branding with other companies owned by Fischer Enterprises.
Between 2013 and 2015, sales for the company jumped 60 percent, and it predicted its sales would grow another 25 percent in 2016.
“We can even afford to treat the White House and press corps to an ice cream social,” Fischer wrote, in closing. “What do you say? We’ll make sure there’s plenty of all your favorite flavors.”