Summer in America is punctuated by the song of the ice cream truck. When that twinkly melody plays, children turn — as if guided by Pavlov himself — in the direction of the frozen treats, mouths ...

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 ...

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Mister Softee is anything but soft when it comes to safeguarding his cherished name. The New Jersey-based owner of the ubiquitous ice cream trucks is suing a rogue Queens vendor, charging he opened ...

For an anthropomorphized cylinder of liquid sugar, Mister Softee is a litigious man. After we ran our profile on Victor the ice cream man last month, attorneys for Mister Softee took notice, and filed ...

It’s a muggy morning at the Mister Softee headquarters in Runnemade, NJ. While most New Yorkers are retreating to the temporary oasis of Rockaway Beach or a friend of a friend’s air conditioned loft, ...

The battles of the ice cream trucks seem to heat up every summer. This week, Mister Softee is suing the owner of the New York Ice Cream Truck for using its trademarked jingle, “The Mister Softee Sonic ...

Mister Softee has hired a team of private eyes in its ongoing battle with upstart competitor New York Ice Cream — with one investigator likening the companies’ rivalry to a “Mafia turf war.’’ “There ...