Andy’s Frozen Custard coming this summer to Burbank, Countryside

By Bob Bong
Southland Savvy

Andy’s Frozen Custard has been so impressed with the results at its Oak Lawn location on Cicero Avenue that opened two years ago that it recently agreed to open new locations in Countryside and Burbank.

“The South Side works for us,” said company President Andy Kuntz. “These two locations will help our brand awareness.”

The Missouri-based company is looking to break ground this month on former firehouse property at 5745 S. LaGrange Road in Countryside and in April at 79^th Street and Harlem Avenue in Burbank.

“We should be open in Countryside by the end of May or beginning of June and about 30 days behind that in Burbank,” Kuntz said.

Each location will employ about 25 people and feature the giant ice cream cone that rotates outside of the Oak Lawn store.

The new sites will be the company’s fourth and fifth in Illinois. A location at Block 37 in downtown Chicago closed last year.

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If you see a new business in town or wonder what happened to an old favorite, drop me a line at bobbong@hotmail.com.