ZEMS Ice Cream and Miniature Golf opened in 2000. The name ZEMS came from the first letters of our children's names; "Z"ack, "E"rick, "M"eghan, and "S"tevens being our last name. My wife Penny and I opened ZEMS to give the kids a Summer job and help them with college and to have some extra money to put away. We wanted to teach them the art of being an entrepreneur and manage a small business, We also hire high school students and teach them the same skils as we taught our children.
They did and are doing now great. Meghan now manages the ice cream parlor. It has evolved into way more than we ever expected it to. Zack manages another business our family owns; Ricks Rags. A lot of that success of his management skills came from ZEMS and the experience he learned. Our son Erick was managing ZEMS before his younger sister Meghan, but we lost him in 2005 to a car accident, which you can read about on our "Labor of Love for Erick" page.
ZEMS has become the local "hot spot" where people come to meet from all over the area, the country and even the World. It is awesome when people from Europe are here visiting and the first stop is ZEMS "to get their fix". That is our favorite part, seeing the people and hearing their story of how they found us or heard of our business.
Owning an ice cream parlor is a lot of fun and a lot of work, but we love what we do and look forward to showing you what we have to offer. So stop on by and see us and get to know our family. Also, meet our ZEMS girls and we hope you feel as much at home as we do.
