Amelia Schwartz is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor who has been covering food, beverage, and culture for over seven years. She is currently an editor at Food & Wine magazine, focusing on trends and ...

*New York (CNN) — It’s never been harder to be Mister Softee. Once, there were more than 2,000 Mister Softee trucks in 38 states during the company’s peak in the 1960s. Now, there are only around 630 ...

You can track exactly where Mister Softee is in NYC with an app. Richard Harbus for The New York Post The emergence of Mister Softee’s ice cream trucks is New York City’s sign that spring has sprung ...

Mister Softee is anything but soft when it comes to safeguarding his cherished name. The New Jersey-based owner of the ubiquitous ice cream trucks is suing a rogue Queens vendor, charging he opened ...

Summer in America is punctuated by the song of the ice cream truck. When that twinkly melody plays, children turn — as if guided by Pavlov himself — in the direction of the frozen treats, mouths ...

Mister Softee has hired a team of private eyes in its ongoing battle with upstart competitor New York Ice Cream — with one investigator likening the companies’ rivalry to a “Mafia turf war.’’ “There ...

The trucks are out. Spring is here. Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Photos: Getty Images The trucks are out. Spring is here. Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Photos: Getty Images Yesterday, as I ...

Mister Softee is a spy. He knows things you do not, like which kids on your block love Strawberry Shortcake popsicles, and the most efficient way to navigate the Castle Industrial Park in Secaucus.

PHILADELPHIA -- It's never been harder to be Mister Softee. Once, there were more than 2,000 Mister Softee trucks in 38 states during the company's peak in the 1960s. Now, there are only around 630 ...

Each year, an army of Mr. Softee trucks are repainted and refurbished in south New Jersey before ice-cream season. Here's what it's like inside the sweet treat headquarters. How you know that spring ...

Mister Softee has no tolerance for other ice cream trucks imitating its iconic design, cones and jingle, company officials say. The New Jersey-based ice cream truck franchise is suing three New York ...

The invention of ice cream of course necessitated the ice-cream truck. Once people had the good stuff they wanted it everywhere—on demand. In 1956, the brothers Bill and Jim Conway were working for a ...