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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Irv_RobbinsIrv Robbins - Wikipedia

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   Irvine "Irv" Robbins (December 6, 1917 – May 5, 2008) was a Canadian-born American businessman. He co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1945 with his partner and brother-in-law Burt Baskin .

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   Apr 4, 2024 · Irv Robbins recalled his business career started when he was about 10, working in his dad’s ice cream store in the alley behind Rhodes Brothers Department Store in Tacoma. The ice cream store, at 954 Court C, was primarily designed to sell surplus from the milk plant as cottage cheese or ice cream.

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3. money.cnn.com › magazines › fsbBurt and Irv's Place Meet the early pioneers of extravagant ...

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   Jul 1, 2000 · Pin at least some of it on brothers-in-law and business partners Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins. The two harbored a most innocent ambition in the bustling postwar years of the late 1940s.

4. www.backthenhistory.com › articles › the-history-ofThe History of Baskin-Robbins - Back Then History

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   Jan 5, 2024 · Irvine "Irv" Robbins grew up in his family’s Tacoma, Washington ice cream store. After getting out of the military in 1945, Robbins opened his own shop called Snowbird Ice Cream in Glendale, California. His brother-in-law, Burton "Burt" Baskin, founded his own ice cream shop called Burton’s Ice Cream in Pasadena, California just one year later.

5. www.mashed.com › 177683The Untold Truth Of Baskin-Robbins - Mashed

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   • Author: Jessica A. Scott

   • Baskin and Robbins were brothers-in-law. Some in-laws find it difficult to tolerate each other long enough to get through Thanksgiving dinner, so starting a business venture together is usually out of the question.
   • Robbins' son gave up the family business to become vegan. Growing up surrounded by ice cream everywhere you look is every kid's dream, right? Well, not for John Robbins.
   • There are a lot more than 31 flavors at Baskin-Robbins. When you think "Baskin-Robbins," you automatically think "31 flavors." It is the company's gimmick, and was meant to imply that they had so many different flavors that you could try a new one every day of the month.
   • Today, Baskin-Robbins is owned by the same brand as Dunkin' Not long after Baskin and Robbins united their individual ice cream shops to officially form Baskin-Robbins, they started opening franchises all over the country.

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Burt_BaskinBurt Baskin - Wikipedia

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   Baskin owned a men's store in the Palmer House in Chicago, and married Irv Robbins' sister Shirley in 1942. He had enlisted in the Navy.He served with Patrol Wing 1 (Later renamed Fleet Air Wing 1) in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, in 1942–43, was released from service early in 1946 and came to California, where Robbins had been operating Snowbird Ice Cream in Glendale.

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   Who is Irvine Robbins?

   • Irvine Robbins, who started scooping ice cream as a kid in his family’s Seattle and Tacoma stores, used his entrepreneurial spirit to create Baskin-Robbins, the world’s best-known ice cream business. The oldest of three children born in Canada, Robbins and his family moved to Seattle in the 1920s.

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   How many ice cream flavors did Burton Baskin & Irvine Robbins make a year?

   • According to the Los Angeles Times, Burton Baskin and Irvine Robbins would come up with hundreds of new ice cream flavors a year at their factory in Burbank, California, but fewer than 10 of those yearly inventions ever saw the light of day.

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   How did Irv Robbins die?

   • According to T he Independent, when Irv Robbins was ill in the late 1980s, a doctor advised him to read it – and adopting some of that advice was a factor in living another two decades. Irv Robbins died at age 90 of natural causes on May 5, 2008, at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California.

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   Did John Robbins inherit Baskin-Robbins ice cream?

   • Well, not for John Robbins. As the one and only son of Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irvine Robbins, John was set to inherit the family business. The entire ice cream empire his father and uncle had built would be his... only he didn't want it.

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   Where did Irv Robbins go to school?

   • Irv Robbins attended the University of Washington in Seattle, was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, and graduated with a degree in Political Science. He served in the U.S. Army as a Staff Sergeant in California, during World War II and was discharged on August 1945.

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   Where was Irvine Robbins born?

   • Irvine Robbins was born on December 6, 1917, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was the oldest of three children and the only boy born to Goldie (Chmelnitsky) Robbins (1894-1991) and Aaron Ernest Robbins (1886-1948). His mother was born in the Ukraine; his father was born in Russia and moved to Montreal with his family when he was a child.

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2008/05/07 › businessIrvine Robbins, Ice Cream Entrepreneur and a Maestro of 31 ...

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   May 7, 2008 · May 7, 2008. Irvine Robbins, who with his brother-in-law, Burton Baskin, started the Baskin-Robbins chain of ice cream stores together concocting quirky flavor combinations with names like ...