You don't need to listen for the ice cream truck's jingle for a sweet treat, thanks to the new Mister Softee app. The app shows the locations of dozens of trucks across 18 states. Originally launched ...

PHILADELPHIA -- It's never been harder to be Mister Softee. Once, there were more than 2,000 Mister Softee trucks in 38 states during the company's peak in the 1960s. Now, there are only around 630 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When that familiar jingle echoes down your street, there’s no mistaking it — the ice cream truck is coming. In New Jersey, most ...

*New York (CNN) — It’s never been harder to be Mister Softee. Once, there were more than 2,000 Mister Softee trucks in 38 states during the company’s peak in the 1960s. Now, there are only around 630 ...

The invention of ice cream of course necessitated the ice-cream truck. Once people had the good stuff they wanted it everywhere—on demand. In 1956, the brothers Bill and Jim Conway were working for a ...

The jingle of a nearby ice cream van is a sure sign that summer is approaching. But you never have to guess when the next time a popular ice cream truck might roll through your neighborhood because ...

Food Next Stop, Summer: A Day Aboard a Mister Softee Truck NEW YORK — In a dimly lit depot in the Bronx, Heli Vasquez prepared his Mister Softee truck for the drive to Manhattan. He had a fully ...

Stefanos Chen, who covers the New York economy, spoke with a food vendor about the rising costs and red tape that threaten his business. By Emmett Lindner Inflation and its rising fuel prices have ...

Mister Softee is going hard on some copycat ice cream trucks. The New Jersey-based franchise claims that three Big Apple operators are trying to trick children by using “imposter” trucks painted to ...

A Mister Softee truck driving down a street in a residential neighborhood. There’s no sound that sounds more like summer than hearing a Mister Softee ice cream truck's jingle, knowing that a cool, ...