Overall Popsicles, a popular popsicle company, will now be in campus stores. According to Glen Loughridge, director of campus dining, the popsicles will be in The Village and Terrell.
Loughridge said he spoke with both the owners, Laura Pritchard and Jay Pritchard, as well as a district manager and they came up with an agreement to bring the popsicles to campus. He said they felt like students would like it especially since there was a cart on campus and now that it is an upgraded product they wanted it to be in stores. According to Loughridge it has been a success so far.
Loughridge said he is excited that the popsicles are coming to campus.
“We want to place value on having local partners,” Loughridge said. “We want to support the community as much as possible and it was an opportunity to pair up with a local business. I feel great about it.”
“Overall Pops on campus for a couple years and they have been well received by students,” Loughridge said. “When they rebranded and wanted to put their product into the C-Stores rather than operate the cart outside it was a natural progression to the partnership. Chartwells RDM, Bill Sallustro, has always been very willing to work with local vendors to provide variety when it makes sense.”
Not only is Loughridge excited, but so are the owners. According to Laura, they decided to be a part of Auburn’s campus because it represents their local community which they love. She also said that she is an Auburn grad as well as her parents, so the whole family is fans.
According to Laura, this is their first summer launching their wholesale and they want to connect with students and the Auburn community because they love it. She said their products are made with natural products and they also wanted to make their pops with the local farmer’s dairy and produce.
“We celebrate local, handcrafted products like the Working Cow Dairy and SuperGrow produce through our pops,” said Jay. “They are fresh, locally sourced and handcrafted celebrating all things Southern.”
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