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| Company type | Coffee, ice cream and food cafe |
|---|---|
| Industry | Ice cream parlour/cafe/coffee shop |
| Founded | Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales (1927) |
| Founder | David and Hannah Cadwalader |
| Headquarters | UK, , |
Number of locations | 9 |
Area served | Wales, Staffordshire |
| Products | Ice cream, cakes, coffee, food |
| Website | www |
Cadwaladers is a family run chain of cafes that originated in Gwynedd, Wales.[1] The original ice cream parlour was introduced by husband and wife David and Hannah Cadwalader in 1927 in Criccieth and was originally run as a general store. The business was passed onto one of their children, Dafydd, who changed the emphasis of the store and removed fish from sale.[2] He sold, from the end of World War II, vanilla ice cream that Hannah Cadwalader developed. The vanilla ice cream was made on the premises with a secret recipe, which is no longer used. The tagline of the vanilla ice cream was six lbs of "shan't tell you" and "a great deal of love and care."[3]
After Dafydd Cadwalader died in 1983, Cadwalader's was bought by a family of Welsh entrepreneurs, The Andrews Family who also own Castle Leisure.[4] The owners expanded the business to cover North Wales and Cardiff. Today, Cadwalader's stores can be found in Wales at Betws-y-Coed, Barry Island, Criccieth, Porthmadog, Tenby Porthcawl and three stores in Cardiff. There is also a store in England at Trentham Gardens.[5][6]
As well as the original Cadwalader's vanilla ice cream and a variety of flavoured ice creams and sundaes, the cafe also sells its own bespoke blends of coffee, loose leaf tea, and other hot drinks.[3]
The Criccieth store holds weekly live Jazz out of high season from September to June.[7]
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- ^ a b "It's Cadwaladers Time!". www.cadwaladers.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ^ "Cadwalader's opens new ice cream store in Manchester". walesonline.co.uk. Media Wales. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
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- ^ "Out for a Bite: Cadwalader's Ice Cream Cafe, Criccieth". northwales.co.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
- ^ "Cadwaladers Ice Cream a tourist attraction in Criccieth, Gwynedd, to visit". www.touruk.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.