(audience applauding)
- It's our restaurant resurgence salute to servers hour
and our house seats are actually filled
with servers who deserve our thanks.
So give yourselves a hand people (clapping).
(women cheer)
I'm hangin' with Fortune Feimster
and Sara Bareilles and we're ready
to get our sweet treats on, y'all.
I love my job so much right now.
(chuckles) You met my next guest this summer
they're sisters and the owners
of an ice cream and soda shop in Washington, DC.
They came all too close to having
to shut their doors forever.
But after they posted their situation to Twitter,
the community rallied around them.
And now they're having a true restaurant resurgence.
(upbeat music)
♪ Restaurant resurgence ♪
I'm waitin' for you to do it. - Get it girl.
- (chuckles) I love...
Jesse Collins, y'all.
Check this tape out, everybody.
- We not only sell like nostalgic treats
like sodas, floats, milkshakes, ice creams.
- [Kelly] Oh, I love a float.
I love a float.
- You can create your own, you know,
you can create like strawberry soda
and have like vanilla ice cream inside
or do like a dreamsicle float.
That'd be amazing. - I was gonna say
dreamsicle's my favorite.
(women laugh)
- It's amazing.
So, you know, the big thing is
that we want to keep the shop and our legacy.
You know we want to stay down here
and our family legacy or not only
for the next generation, but the one after that.
(audience applauds)
- Yeah.
Let's welcome back from
the Southwest Soda Shop sisters Lena and Brianna.
What's up guys?
(women cheer)
- Hi. - Hi.
- I know Feimster's already eatin' her ice cream.
So Lena, how have things been going since this summer?
And how are the rest of your sisters?
- Well this summer?
This summer things have slowed down a bit.
We are approaching our colder months.
So we're looking to transition into some
of the warmer foods for the colder months.
But the good thing about it
is everyone that couldn't stand
in line in the summertime.
This is their time to come visit us now.
- [Fortune] There you go.
- And as far as the sisters,
they're good.
Brittany.
She's back to teaching.
It's a little hard for her
but she's maintaining.
Andrea she's back in school
and still working at the shop.
- Right on.
Well, I don't know about everybody else,
but I still like ice cream in the winter. (laughs)
- Me too.
- So Brianna what are we making today?
- We're gonna make the cake explosion.
- Let's do it.
(audience chuckles)
- We're gonna start with a layer
of cookies at the bottom.
- [Kelly] Okay.
- And this is the item.
She's gonna layer it right at the bottom.
- Break the cookie up, crumble it up, Kelly.
- Okay I have no problems with that, ma'am.
- [Fortune] Man.
(women laugh)
- This originated when we first opened.
It went viral.
- Look see Sara's gettin'
in on it too. - So this is
our signature item.
You can customize as you like it.
- [Fortune] How many cookies
did you put in there? - Okay.
Now do we put the ice cream?
- I love that you say ice-
- [Kelly] Oh look, Sara.
Give it up, girl.
So wait, how many scoops?
- [Fortune] Yeah how many scoops?
- One scoop?
- Just one.
- One, okay fine.
Why are ya holdin' me back?
- Is two bowls too many?
(women laugh)
- All right before we go
Sara what's your go-to desert besides pie obviously?
- You're lookin' at it.
Ice cream is by far...
But I do love pie.
This is from our local ice cream spot.
Morgenstern's here in New York city.
And so
we're supportin' a local ice cream shop here too.
- Yeah I love it.
- There ya go. - All right.
Okay well Briana my ice cream's meltin'.
What's next after the scoop. - My ice cream's
meltin' too.
- I'm gonna slap you.
(women chuckle)
(woman claps)
- Before it melts you wanna add the chocolate cake.
Now, don't put a whole slice. - Well we can't wait
to get to that.
- Just a thin layer, Kelly.
- A thin layer.
You want to crumble it
and just set it right in there.
- Okay.
- She's got the whole cake.
(women laugh)
- Mine is proper.
- I love cake.
Don't judge me.
- Okay I'm down.
I'm not against it.
Okay.
(women laugh)
All right.
So then, okay.
So what do we do after that?
- We're gonna put the whipped cream on top.
- Oh, okay.
I just heard Jessie go, "Oh." (laughs)
- Not too much, Kelly because...
Okay.
(women laugh)
- My singer in the house dyin' right now.
She wants some of this.
Sauce.
We're going to sauce it up.
Oh, it's warmed up.
- [Woman] Yeah, yeah.
Okay, Kelly we saw that.
- The more the better.
- Okay wait I'm gonna do this.
- I couldn't own an ice cream shop.
I would be in trouble.
- Oh my God.
I could never.
I can't.
I want to in my soul and heart.
So wait do we do sprinkles now?
- Oh my God that's so good. - Yeah
we're gonna add the sprinkles.
- And then we put the little cherry?
- [Woman] Yeah you have to have the cherry.
- I'm not afraid.
- [Fortune] Okay.
- Okay can we dig in now?
- [Woman] Yeah just dig in. - Yeah we're gonna dig in.
- [Kelly] I'm diggin' in. - Oh my gosh.
- Oh my God.
I love, love, love my job.
- I don't want fruit on my sundae though.
(all laugh)
Oh my God it's so good.
- Oh my God it's so good.
(audience claps)
- This is the best job ever.
- I want to eat ice cream year-round.
- I heard you have an ice cream dance.
- I sure do have an ice cream dance.
- Let's see your ice cream.
- 'Cause every time I eat ice cream
it's makes me just wanna be like...
- The body roll?
(lively music)
(all laugh)
Oh my God.