Legit Dippin Dots news?

[Browntggrr]

Now that I have your attention :

An Oklahoma firm has agreed to buy Kentucky-based Dippin' Dots Inc. out of bankruptcy for $12.7 million.

http://newsok.com/ok...article/3665878

[kingsrattler]

I like what you did there.

[westcoaster]

Dippin dots guy has a whole new company today.

Read that over at another site this morning, a kentucky company was saved though.

That is good.

[LongLiveTheSmurfRide]

So I guess Dippin' Dots, the ice cream of the future, was a little ahead of its time?

[KI-ORIG-EMP]

I heard from the dipping dots guy that he saved all of his earnings and bought the company so he can proclaimed himself as the DIPPIN DOT GUY!

[KIfan73]

I think that when the park makes an announcement about Son of Beast, it should be made by someone dressed in a Dippin' Dots uniform.

[westcoaster]

Dippin dots the ice cream of yesterday, the world is okay with regular icecream:

[CoastersRZ]

I wonder what cut Dippin Dots got from every item sold in the parks/venues. They always seem to do good business. And $12.7 million seems relatively cheap, considering that the company owed about that much. Hopefully, the new owners can make the company profitable and turn things around.

[Browntggrr]

Dippin Dots Hopes to Avoid Meltdown with Sale

The buyer has ties to energy executive Mark Fischer, the president of oil and gas exploration company Chaparral Energy Inc. Under the new ownership, the company would continue to pump out the dots from its 120,000-square-foot Paducah, Ky., manufacturing plant, which can produce more than 25,000 gallons of frozen dots a dayDippin Dots Hopes to Avoid Meltdown with Sale

http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2012/04/16/dippin%E2%80%99-dots-hopes-to-avoid-meltdown-with-sale/

[Outdoor Man]

$12.7 million??? not bad for a bankrupt company. Not a bad idea, I should run my business into the ground, then list for sale...