SHAYNA: BUT THANKS TO SOME LOCALS AND A LOT OF GREAT RECIPES, THERE ARE MANY YEARS TO COME.
♪ THE YUM YUM SHOP HAS BEEN A FIXTURE IN THE TOWN OF BOROUGH SINCE THE FAMILY OPENED IT IN THE 1940’S.
LAST YEAR, GENERATIONS, IN SEARCH OF THE FAMOUS GINGERBREAD MEN WERE OUT OF LUCK.
YUM YUM PUT THE SHOP ON THE MARKET.
THE COMMUNITY WAS NOT HAPPY.
>> I WAS SO SAD.
PART OF ME WAS IN DENIAL.
I DO NOT TOTALLY BELIEVE THEY WOULD CLOSE.
WHEN WE CAME LAST SUMMER, THEY CLOSED.
I FELT LIKE THERE WAS A HOLE IN TOWN.
I WOULD FINISH LUNCH -- WHERE IS MY COOKIE?
SHAYNA: SHE HAS BEEN SIMMERING IN WOLFEBORO -- SUMMERING IN WOLFEBORO HER WHOLE LIFE, AND SUFFERING WITHOUT YUM YUMS -- SHE WOULDN’T HAVE IT.
>> BLUEBERRY PIE WAS ALWAYS FEATURED AT SUNDAY DINNER.
IT WAS A HUGE PART OF THE SUMMER, PART OF THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE OF THE UP -- OF BEING UP HERE.
SHAYNA: SO SHE GOT HER HUSBAND SPENCER ON BOARD.
>> I MET ASHLEY, SO IN LOVE WITH ASHLEY, AND WAS FORCED TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE LANGUAGE.
IT WAS PRETTY EASY.
THAT IS HOW I BECAME THE WORLD’S BIGGEST WOLFEBORO FAN.
SHAYNA: THE COMPANY RACKED UP FREQUENT FLYER MILES.
THEY WERE NOW IN THE BAKERY BUSINESS.
>> WE WERE ABLE TO KEEP ALL THE SAME CHARM THAT WAS THE YUM YUM SHOP, BUT HOPEFULLY HELP SUPPLEMENT WITH MORE BUSINESS AND STRATEGIC VISION.
>> I DID NOT WANT TO CHANGE TOO MUCH OF THE MENU, OTHERWISE IT WOULD NOT BE THE YUM YUM SHOP.
I WANTED TO KEEP THE NOSTALGIA, WHEN EVERYONE LOVED ABOUT THE YUM YUM CHA.
THE ONLY THING I WANTED TO CHANGE WAS THE BUILDING.
SHAYNA: PETER TOOK OVER THE KITCHEN, THE PLACE WHERE HE GREW UP.
>> FIRST THING WHEN I COME IN, CREWS START BETWEEN 3:00 AND 5:00 IN THE MORNING.
THE FIRST THING WE HAVE TO DO IS GET JELLY DOUGHNUTS GOING.
SHAYNA: THEY KEEP CHURNING OUT PIES, BREAD, ALL THE OLD STAPLES.
DID WE MENTION PEOPLE ARE CRAZY FOR THE GINGERBREAD COOKIES?
>> IT IS A MAGNIFICENT COOKIE.
THE GINGERBREAD COOKIES ARE AMAZING.
>> GINGERBREAD MEN, THE DECORATED ONES, THE REGULAR ONES -- YOU CAN’T GO WRONG.
>> YUM YUM SHOP SINCE WE WERE LITTLE KIDS.
THE GINGERBREAD MEN ARE THE BEST.
>> WE DO ABOUT 2000 JUNIOR BRETT COOKIES A DAY.
-- GINGERBREAD COOKIES A DAY.
THIS CUTTER IS ONE THAT MY UNCLE MADE FOR THE FAMILY.
ALL OF THESE COOKIES ARE CAUGHT ONE AT A TIME.
-- CUT ONE AT A TIME.
SHAYNA: SINCE THE DOORS HAVE REOPENED, FAMILIES HAVE BEEN STREAMING THROUGH THEM, HAPPY TO SEE CASES FULL OF THEIR FAVORITES ONCE AGAIN.
>> CAN I HAVE ONE OF THOSE?
>> I HAVE BEEN COMING HERE SINCE I REMEMBER.
-- SINCE AS EARLY AS I CAN REMEMBER.
MY GRANDFATHER WOULD BUY COOKIES ENOUGH TO FILL OUR VACATION HOME.
>> OUR FAMILY MEMORIES ARE TIED UP IN THIS, SO IT IS GREAT.
>> THE YUM YUM SHOP, I HAVE COME TO FIND, IS NOT JUST A BAKERY, IT IS A TRADITION FOR EVERYONE HERE.
ON OPENING DAY WE FOUND OUT HOW EVERYONE CAME IN WITH THEIR PARENTS OR THEIR GRANDPARENTS, AND NOW THEY ARE BACK HERE WITH THEIR KIDS.
IT IS SUCH A STAPLE TO THIS TOWN.
IT IS PART OF EVERYBODY’S SUMMER, AND HAS BEEN FOR YEARS.
WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
WE ARE BACK IN ACTION.
♪ SHAYNA: ICE CREAM LOVERS IN LITTLETON NEED NOT SCREEN ANYMORE.
FAN FAVORITE BISHOPS ICE CREAM IS OPEN AND THEY JUST AS IT HAS BEEN FOR 40 YEARS.
TWO LOCAL COUPLES HAVE MADE SURE OF IT.
>> THERE WERE SOME RUMORS THAT THE PROPERTY WAS BEING LOOKED AT FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND IT WAS NOT GOING TO CONTINUE ON AS AN SCREEN SHOT.
-- -AS AN ICE CREAM SHOP.
YEAH, WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING.
SHAYNA: DAN ALONG WITH HIS WIFE JADE, ALONG WITH THEIR BUSINESS PARTNERS, GREW UP EATING BISHOPS ALL SUMMER LONG, AND IT WAS THEIR MISSION TO MAKE SURE KIDS TODAY GOT TO DO THE SAME.
>> THIS HAS A LOT OF SPECIAL MEMORIES FOR US, SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ABSOLUTE SHAME FOR IT TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS AND TURN INTO SOMETHING OTHER THAN THIS LOVELY ICE CREAM SHOP.
SHAYNA: OTHER THOUGH -- ALTHOUGH THE SHOP HAS NEW OWNERS, THAT IS ABOUT THE ONLY THING THAT HAS CHANGED.
THE PAC-MAN CHAIRS TO THE FAMOUS BISHOPS ICE CREAM RECIPES ARE STILL INTACT.
>> THEY ARE MY GRANDMOTHER RECIPES.
THERE ARE THINGS THAT NO LONGER EXIST THAT ARE ON RECIPES.
WE ARE LIKE, WHAT IS THAT?
SHAYNA: DAN AND STEPHEN ARE NOW PARTNERS IN ICE CREAM MAKING.
>> ON A NORMAL DAY WE TRIED TO DO SIX TO 10 FLAVORS.
>> HE CANNOT COOK TO SAVE HIS LIFE, SO THAT HE IS DOING ICE CREAM IS AMAZING.
>> PREMIUM INGREDIENTS.
>> IF SO IS GOOD -- SOME IS GOOD , MORE IS BETTER.
>> WE ARE CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY.
[LAUGHTER] SHAYNA: LOCAL CUSTOMERS SWEAR THE LOCAL LOVE MA -- >> PEOPLE LOVE TO SEE THE SHOP RUN BY FAMILIES THAT THEY WORK THE SIDE AND THEIR KIDS GREW UP
BESIDES.
>> I THINK IT IS FANTASTIC.
I THINK THE PROBLEM WITH 11 COMMUNITIES IS THERE AREN’T -- WITH A LOT OF COMMUNITIES IS THERE AREN’T A LOT OF INSTITUTIONS LEFT ANYMORE.
>> WE ARE GRABBED TO -- GLAD TO SEE IT OPEN LOCAL AGAIN.
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