General Info

Friendly Ice Cream Corporation is a vertically integrated restaurant company serving signature sandwiches, entrees and ice cream desserts in a friendly, family environment in more than 500 company-owned and franchised restaurants throughout the Northeast. The company also manufactures ice cream, which is distributed through more than 4,500 supermarkets and other retail locations. With a 70-year operating history, Friendly's enjoys strong brand recognition. The company had revenues of more than $500 million in 2005. Friendly s restaurants make ice cream using milk from area dairies and its authentic hot fudge with imported Dutch cocoa. Everything on the company s menu is made-to-order from breakfasts to sandwiches. Friendly s specialty is ice cream products and ice cream cakes. The company headquarters is in Wilbraham, Mass.