Today, Nico's Ice Cream includes two brick-and-mortar locations in Portland and pints sold in about 60 grocery stores across Oregon and Washington.
Within a year, one ice cream cart became two brick-and-mortar locations, a Mexican restaurant and a cafe that closed almost as quickly as it opened.
Most of that revenue — $473,000 — came solely from Nico's Ice Cream.
One piece of equipment was particularly important: the ice cream blender, made by a Hope, New Zealand-based company called Little Jem.
Vergara, working at one of his two Nico's Ice Cream locations.
Persons:
Nico Vergara, Vergara, he'd, Jem
Organizations:
Zealand, CNBC, Cream, Apple
Locations:
New Zealand, Portland , Oregon, Portland, Oregon, Washington, Mexican, Zealand, Hope , New Zealand