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Goodies Frozen Custard Open for Business at Alexandria Storefront
Part 1: Frozen Custard Centered on Community Part 2: Building a Brand on Vanilla Custard Part 3: When Dessert Gets Down to the Wire Wearing rain jackets and carrying umbrellas, a steady stream of people lined up to get a frozen custard treat from Goodies Frozen Custard & Treats storefront in Alexandria on opening weekend. Goodies’ “almost semi-grand opening” on…
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‘You Can Never Be Prepared Fully': Goodies Clears Hurdles to Storefront Opening
No one knows better than Brandon Byrd that running a business can be precarious: In his journey toward opening a storefront for Goodies, a frozen custard truck in the D.C. area, he’s rebounded from several setbacks. One of them being a worldwide pandemic that hit when he was preparing to remodel an old ice house for his storefront in Old...
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Goodies: Frozen Custard Truck Bounces Back After Pandemic Struggles by Opening First Virginia Store
Episode 1 of NBC Washington’s Rebound explores how Goodies Frozen Custard & Treats, a Black-owned dessert shop in D.C., went from struggling during the pandemic to opening its first storefront.
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Photos: Archaeologists Dig Up 387-Year-Old Fort
Archaeologists in St. Mary’s County have been searching for a lost colonial fort for 90 years. And that persistence is finally paying off. National St. Mary’s City has confirmed the excavation of a palisaded fort that was part of the first permanent English settlement in Maryland. Archeologists knew the fort existed in St. Mary’s as Lord George Calvert had written about...
