Published: Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010 / Updated: Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010 11:58 AM
Bruster’s doles out cones, scoops up donations for two nonprofits
FORT MILL TOWNSHIP --
The sign said, ‘PJ Day, Saturday, March 6th. Wear Your Pjs. Free Cone.’
Tega Cay’s Kristen Starcher rounded up her daughters for a trip to Bruster’s Real Ice Cream. Before they headed out the door, Kayleigh, 4, and Maeghan, 3, had to change their clothes.
“I told them they had to dress in their pjs,” Starcher said. “They didn’t know where we were going. This was a surprise.”
Starcher’s family is no stranger to the customer appreciation annual festivity that doles out free cones of ice cream to anyone bold enough to venture past their mailbox and on to Bruster’s in their pajamas for a waffle cone stuffed with favorite ice cream.
And they gave a treat: Donations for the Children’s Attention Home and Tega Cay Neighbors Helping Neighbors.
“Tega Cay Neighbors Helping Neighbors has helped a few of my friends,” Starcher said. “They have given so much back to Tega Cay.”
“It was fun,” Sharon Bybee of York said as sons, Cam, 1, and Braeden, 2.
Nightgown clad Phoebe Stayduhar, 2, of Fort Mill flanked by her siblings, Lily, 7, and Ruby, 5, and neighbor, Alex Shappley, enjoyed a waffle cone.
“This is awesome,” Alex Shappley, 9, a fourth-grader at Fort Mill Elementary School, said. “It feels like I’m eating ice cream in bed because I’m in my pjs.”
Last year, owners Scot and Sherry Reid gave away 586 cones and raised $1,057, Scot said in an e-mail.
“I love giving back to the community,” Sherry Reid said. “It’s fun to give back to our customers.
“With such a tough economy, our event is a way to life people’s spirits,” Reid said. “This (ice cream) is something they can get for free.”
This year, the ice cream eatery gave away 754 cones and raised $684, Scot Reid said.
“We’re tickled,” he said.
But more than that, there’s just something about going out for that much celebrated ice cream treat, Sherry Reid said.
“I just like seeing the smiles,” she said. “People are happy when they come for ice cream, but it’s something different when they’re coming for ice cream in their pajamas. Everybody is so happy.”
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