About Sno Shack Inc.
A bit of history, our current team, and our future plans and goals
Sno Shack Inc. was founded in 1978 in Salt Lake City,
Utah. The company was created to fill a market void in quality ice shaving
equipments and flavor distribution. Over the last 28 years, Sno Shack Inc. has
been one of the world's leading suppliers of shaved ice products. From ice
shavers to "shacks" to flavors, Sno Shack continues to provide quality support
for individual shaved ice operations all over the world.
The Sno Shack Team
Cheryl Lewis, Sno Shack corporate president and owner until October 2005,
concluded that change in ownership and, thus, corporate leadership was in
order. She approached Jared Sommer, perhaps the most successful Sno
Shack/Shaved Ice operator in the industry, to consider the corporate purchase.
Jared's experience in Shaved Ice as a customer stretches back to nearly the
inception of Sno Shack--the late 70's to early 80's. Jared's entry as
owner of his own Sno Shack began in the summer of 1992. The rest is
history.
Jared has operated Sno Shacks in towns of primarily smaller demographic populations and has
extracted $4 to $5 gross revenue per capita each summer even while facing
competition from the majority of the other big names in Shaved Ice. None
has been able to compete! Revenues above $85,000 in small towns with
populations around 20,000 has been achieved. This is unheard of in the
entire industry! Jared brings a breadth of knowledge to the industry and to Sno Shack that is absolutely unmatched anywhere
in the world!
It was Jared's success over many years that led Cheryl Lewis to hand select
Jared to take over the reins of Sno Shack, Inc. Jared now fills the
capacity of President at Sno Shack, Inc. Jared spends his days assisting
people like you improve existing Sno Shack operations and helps the beginners
set themselves on a course for success.
Jared is the primary instructor at Shaved Ice University (www.ShavedIceUniversity.com)
where instruction is offered to seasoned, new, and want-to-be Shaved Ice
operators. No training of this sort is offered anywhere else on this
globe! If someone desires to see how the real money is made in this
business, you now have the opportunity to learn from the best of the
best. No more learning by hard knocks -- know what the best in this
industry does from day one of your operation.
When corporate change occurred, Jared concluded that bringing in others with
measurable Shaved Ice experience would be optimal. The Porter family,
operators of multiple Sno Shack locations for many years, were the perfect
fit. The Porters -- Craig, Sterling, Cameron, Jordan, Schyler, and Austin
-- make the foundation of Sno Shack, Inc. rock solid and unparalleled in
dimension.
The Porters bring skills resulting in improvements as follows:
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Building fabrication (you won't believe what our all new, all-aluminum 2007
buildings have become -- our trademark shape with dent-resistent, insulated,
strengthened aluminum offering the best in appearance and greatest longevity of
any Shaved Ice building in the industry at the lowest cost)
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Web site development and maintenance
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Block Ice Shaver innovation (wait till you see the debut of our 2007 Block
Shaver--it was the industry's best before, now it is light years ahead of
anything available anywhere in the world)
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Cube Ice Shaver enhancements (new tooling over the off-season has improved its
shaved ice snow quality and reduced snow clogging -- a problem with the best of
cube shavers -- making it the best ever Cube Shaver in performance, quality and
control)
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Bi-lingual capabilities (Spanish, Portugese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and
Russian)
Jessica and others that support the office have been employed at Jared's shaved
ice operations, and are versed in day to day product and customer service
processes. You can have utmost confidence that when you contact Sno Shack,
Inc., you are talking to the source for unrivaled Shaved Ice success.