Rob and Lisa Brown, with friends, employees, and members of the Greater Wasilla Chamber of Commerce, cut the giant ribbon during their grand opening in the Sun Mountain Plaza in Wasilla.
As the saying goes, you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream—and that’s pretty much the same thing. Rob and Lisa Brown, owners of Big Dipper Homemade Ice Cream, are striving to provide a scoop of happiness along with their tasty concoctions.
That dual mission is proving a sweet success. With a line of customers out the door and down the block, Big Dipper cut a giant red ribbon to mark the opening of its new Wasilla location at the Shoppes at Sun Mountain June 18.
Alaska-Grown Happiness
The Browns’ venture into ice cream began as a birthday celebration, Rob says. For his birthday in 2019, Lisa made German chocolate ice cream instead of cake. It was so delicious that they joked about going into business. A year later, they decided to do it. Another year of planning, preparing, and creating followed and the couple opened Big Dipper in Palmer in May 2021…