According to the franchise founder and CEO, Brian Brooker, walking into a Brooker’s is like walking back in time to a colonial Williamsburg tavern, complete with a mounted boar head, era-appropriate decor and employees dressed to match.

Besides the theme, Brooker’s Founding Flavors boasts super-premium ice cream with a butterfat content of 16% contributing to its rich, creamy texture.

The Food and Drug Administration requires products labeled as ice cream to contain at least 10% butterfat, a standard most fast-food soft-serve and dairy treats don’t meet.

The average ice cream parlor uses cream with 12-14% butterfat. By FDA standards, super-premium ice cream must have at least 14%.

Brooker’s also offers early American hot drinking chocolate, a thicker, richer cousin to most modern hot chocolate.

According to Caitland, she and her husband are Brooker’s super fans, who would visit anytime they were nearby.

She said they had been discussing opening their own ice cream shop when they found out Brooker’s was franchising and decided to jump on the opportunity.

Caitland said while Logan has a few different ice cream options, she feels that they each have their own personality and feel.

“We were so excited because it is such good ice cream,” Caitland said. “We’re so excited to start this new adventure.”

She said it has been fun but crazy getting everything ready to open in a few weeks.

The business owner started the first Brooker’s almost eight years ago in Utah County.

“It’s the merge of my two passions,” Brooker said.

Brooker grew up in Virginia, surrounded by sites from early American history. He said he passed a Revolutionary War battlefield on the way to school every morning.

Later in life, he served in the military. After returning from deployment to Iraq, he was stationed on the Virginia Peninsula near the original site of Jamestown and colonial Williamsburg.

These experiences sparked Brooker’s lifelong love and interest in early American history.

His passion for quality ice cream was sparked the summer after his high school graduation, while hiking a multi-state section of the Appalachian Trail.

While hiking across New England, Brooker would stop in different towns along the way to eat locally made ice cream. Years later, a summer spent studying abroad in Europe gave Brooker and his wife Jamie an opportunity to fall deeper in love with quality ice cream.

He called his shop and now franchise a dream 30 years in the making.

“We’re excited to come to your neighborhood, and I think we’ll be a fun part of the community,” Brooker said.

Learn more about Brooker’s Founding Flavors Ice Cream at brookersicecream.com/our-story.