PARK Magazine

ARTS BUSINESS
‘‘WHEN YOU’RE AT ONE OF
BUTCH’S PLACES OR
EVENTS, YOU’RE NEVER
MORE THAN AN
ARM’S LENGTH AWAY
FROM SOMEONE
WITH A BIG SMILE’’
Elizabeth Hashagen, Anchor, News 12
Long Island, with Butch Yamali
According to Yamali, “I believe you can always
judge a person’s character on how hard they work.”
As a teenager, Yamali was introduced to regular
half days of work, just twelve hours, at his father’s
specialty shop, Dover Gourmet. Rather than creating
a distaste for the hospitality business, it set the
stage for a career mostly making something out of
nothing or fixing and rebuilding broken food service
establishments and brands.
Yamali’s start was as innocent as a vanilla ice
cream cone and perhaps just a matter of circumstance.
It was the late 80’s and he was hired to work
on an ice cream truck that was rented by a local
community organization for an afternoon event.
Reflecting on making maybe $100 for a day’s work,
he took the experience and the money and invested
in his own ice cream truck. His first event netted
him $2,000 and Carnival Ice Cream was on a roll.
One truck became more than 50 and further
grew with a licensing / distribution agreement with
Good Humor Ice Cream. Carnival Ice Cream is
Long Island’s largest ice cream distributor and is
the official distributor of Good Humor Ice Cream,
Breyers, Ben & Jerry’s, and Sealtest products. Carnival
only sells the name brand products which
consumers know and trust.
Yamali targeted a nearly unlimited set of potential
customers and venues for the Carnival brand including…
town pools, at sporting fields, crowded parking
lots, local events, sports tournaments, festivals, picnics,
birthdays, Mitzvahs, corporate and private
parties, among other functions. They established
the brand in more than 30 parks that reads like a
Who’s Who of NY County and State Parks, and over
the years they have earned exclusivity through hard
work, reliability, and customer satisfaction. The
parks and beaches in which Dover has operated
over the years include, but are not limited to:
CARNIVAL ICE CREAM
DOVER CATERERS
CORAL HOUSE
MALIBLUE OYSTER BAR
HUDSONS ON THE MILE
MALIBU SHORE CLUB
MALIBU BEACH CAMP
MILLERIDGE INN & VILLAGE
DREAM EVENT PLANNING
QUICK SNACK VENDING
PETER’S CLAM BAR
RAAY-NOR’S
MAPLE MAINTENANCE
& CONSTRUCTION
From Carnival Ice Cream came more, much more;
again, from practically nothing, new businesses
emerged in the form of Quick Snack Vending Machines,
Dover Caterers, and Dream Event Planning…
Quick Snack Vending, the #1 On-premise Pepsi