Handel's plans more expansions in 2015

HERMITAGE, PA.

This year will be another cool one for Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt.

Five new locations will open, an ice cream truck will be available for parties, and a new, top-secret, novelty item unlike any other will be on the menu, owner Lenny Fisher said.

“We take a very slow approach to growth,” Fisher said.

Since Fisher, CEO of Handel’s, took over the Youngstown staple in 1985, more than 40 locations have been added in seven states to the second original location on Handel’s Court on Youngstown’s South Side. The real original location was across the street.

One of the locations opening next year is the first one for Hermitage, Pa.

Read more about the expansion in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.