Specialties: Head to our Newport ice cream shop and dig into any of our euphoric Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors in the way the first scoops were served up by Ben and Jerry back in 1978. Come enjoy a freshly baked waffle cone, shake or sundae with your favorite flavors. Established in 1978. With a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State and a $12,000 investment ($4,000 of ...Specialties: Head to our Newport ice cream shop and dig into any of our euphoric Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors in the way the first scoops were served up by Ben and Jerry back in 1978. Come enjoy a freshly baked waffle cone, shake or sundae with your favorite flavors. Established in 1978. With a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State and a $12,000 investment ($4,000 of it borrowed), Ben and Jerry open their first ice cream scoop shop in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont. Ben and Jerry celebrate the shop's one-year anniversary - and the customers who made it possible - by holding the first-ever Free Cone Day: free scoops for all, all day long. The annual ice cream give-away continues today in scoop shops around the world. From a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont, to far-off places with names we sometimes mispronounce, the journey that began in 1978 with 2 guys and the ice cream business they built is as legendary as the ice cream is euphoric.see more