Dove Bar is an American ice cream bar, created by a Greek immigrant named Leo Stefanos in Chicago, IL in 1956 bringing a little sweetness to the Windy City’s South Side.
One day, Leo sees his son Mike chasing an ice cream van down a busy street and swears, right there, that he will create a delicious new ice cream that can be enjoyed in the safety of his own store. After months of painstakingly slicing blocks of ice cream and dipping them in chocolate, the sensational DOVEBAR is created.
The DoveBar, a butterfat rich, generous 5.5-ounce ice cream confection, hand-dipped in Dutch bittersweet chocolate was originally sold for 15 cents.
The blocky chocolate-covered bars were sold only in the Chicago area until 1977 when Leo Stefanos passed away and Mike took over his father's business. By 1980, production was 500 bars a day. In order to sign on with the larger supermarkets, a distributor (Jim and Dick Zacharias) was found, and by 1982, production had risen to about 1,000 bars a day.
In 1984 things really got going when Mike took the DOVEBAR to the Fancy Foods Show in Washington, D.C., and orders started flooding in. Within three months, DoveBars were being shipped to 3,500 supermarkets around the country.
DoveBar was bought out by Mars Incorporated in 1986. It was expanded into different ice cream flavors, chocolate bars and the nationwide sensation was born.
Info Source: ChocolateGuru, PeoplePill, Rampages, DoveChocolate.
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