Schneider's Sweet Shop

I'll catch you on the back. Our family makes people happy. And we make candy. We make ice cream. It makes people happy. Sniders is in Bellevue, Kentucky just across the river from Cincinnati. And the reason that it's in t I mean t Especially the strip down in Fairfield. A lot of the businesses are all mom and pop shops and I t My dad, he actually enjoyed making candy. My grandpa put up all the money and he bought the business for the whole family. So all the brothers and sisters were in t A lot of fun growing up in a candy store. Our school was maybe four blocks away. So we would get to bring our whole class down after school and they'd come down and they'd get ice cream. So it's kind of fun. Everybody wants to hang out with you and your parents in a candy and ice cream store. Basically I was born in the Sniders is in. So when I was about 13 years old, my dad came up and dragged me off the couch and said, it's time for you to go to work. You're 13. You're old enough. If we got busy down in the store, my dad would go bang on a pipe. You better come running down and help with the customers. But I can remember sitting there and doing my homework all night long. It was a family t My brothers and sisters were all involved in the same t Now as I grew up, my dad trained me. He trained me how to do t It's mostly done by watc But I did quit for 10 years. I was an electrician for another company. When the time came for dad to retire, he was going to close it up. We ended up buying it from So I've had it ever since. I really picked it up pretty quick. It took me about six months to get through the whole thing when my dad probably says, I'm done. I'm out of here. And he went and did But of course he was there. And if I call What happened here? But then I do, he still had After school, we would come down to the candy store. We'd go upstairs and we'd hang out with grandma and grandpa w And then grandma would make dinner. So mom and dad would come up and eat dinner. And then they'd go back down and work some more. And then once the candy store closed, we'd all go home. So were here all the time. Opacreme, which is our n And that's opacreme. You can add stuff to it. But once you add, say you try to make a buttercream so you put butter in it, you no longer have an opacreme. If you add somet Now you have a chocolate cream. Opacreme is just one specifically. We do big mamas. We do cordial cherries, w Maple nut, Nuget, buttercream, raspberry, apricot, chocolate covered caramel, caramel apples, chocolate covered pretzels, n We do three kinds of fudges. Oh my gosh, there'so many. Then we get into our different kinds of ice cream. Anyt We still make all our ice cream the same we grandpa did. Dan still pours all the ingredients in it, it mixes. And then he stands there with a big ice cream bucket and catches it right out of there. We do all the toppings to go on top of it. We make ice balls, we actually make the ice. We freeze the ice, we purify it. We make the toppings to go on top of the ice. It's all our recipes. My favorite thing from Every week I'll probably get in five, six hundred pounds of sugar. It goes in everyt I'll go down every other day, get I don't even know how much of that I go through. It goes through quite a bit. Depending on what you're making, pecans, almonds. When I order a chocolate, I'll probably order a thousand pounds of chocolate. Every time we run the mac That's not including everyt We'll probably run three, four hundred pounds a day of that and that's usually once or twice a week. But when you get around Christmas holidays, that's four, five, six days a week. I'd say half the equipment that we use is all from the 30s. So if it breaks down, you can't really replace it. So, I t We take all the sugar, the cream, whatever else goes into it. We boil it and bring it up to certain temperatures. We throw it in cream beaters. The cream beaters cool it down. That actually takes it from a liquid to a cream. You can run it through a chocolate coater. You put a bottom on the candy. It runs across the belt. It's cold. It makes it hard. You run it through the coater, w Then it goes through the tunnel that cools it off and the lady on the end, it's just She'staying there. She's taking them off. Because it's been around so long, people that grew up with it now have kids and grandkids and they have grandkids. So it's become a family tradition, I've been coming to Snyder's pretty much as a c And I come here because their chocolate is excellent. Their ice cream is superb. And it's a very nice store. Snyder's is a tradition at our house. My husband loves their opera creams and we have a box of opera creams in our cupboard all the time. My grandma and grandpa were raised in Bellevue and they were some of the first patrons of Snyder's. And t My mom and dad brought us here as c And now I have grandc I've been coming to Snyder'sweet shop for over 65 years. I grew up right up the street on foot and so as a young girl, it was a treat every night to come down and we could get ice balls for 10 cents. So they are so friendly. When somebody comes in here and they eat our candy and they are happy with what they're getting, it makes me happy. My problem is I'm so busy back here making candy. I don't get to see that very often. Luckily I got my wife here. We do a quality product. It is a little tougher nowadays with all the other companies around but people don't want mass produced stuff. They want somet They know it's going to be quality because they know that I will keep my candy the way that I'll raise my prices before I cheapen it. You come in here,