When Laura Robertson first started working at Prince Pückler’s, she didn’t love it.
Laura was 15 at the time, so young that her parents had to drop her off at the storefront because she couldn’t drive herself. She remembers feeling awkward scooping ice cream next to the college kids who seemed to know everyone who came into the shop.
“Everyone was so cool and I was just a little owner’s daughter,” Laura said. She took a break from the family business for the rest of high school, but was back before long, slinging ice cream after class and over the summer while she attended the University of Oregon…