Sheboygan luxury ice organization credits pandemic for achievements

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Christina Hephner owns LushICE in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 

She spends a ton of time packing her luxurious ice cubes and spheres into coolers so they can be delivered to shoppers, who can purchase different variations of ice. 

“What they fundamentally did was a construct-your-individual dozen with two six-packs, and then they also requested the cocktail megamix,” Hephner explained as she packed up an buy. 

The cocktail mega-combine consists of ice cubes that can be produced into an aged-fashioned, margarita and even watermelon mojito. 

It has everything other than the booze. 

“So, the lime, the mint, the fresh watermelon, and the fresh new watermelon puree will make up the dice, and a couple other components to make it mojito-y,” Hephner claimed. 

Her boyfriend, Justin Colby, can help Hephner get deals of her “Luxury Ice” to The Transport Mill to be sent off to states all throughout the country. 

“Sometimes possibly additional than when a week, in some cases, not at all,” Colby said. 

It’s only a 5-moment push to The Transport Mill, which will make transporting the ice speedy and easy. 

“A whole lot of demo and operate faults, acquiring folks report again to us about the ailment of the ice, how it can be manufactured. But yeah, it’s quite neat to see how it is taking off,” Colby claimed. 

Hephner does not have that time to spare. She’s chaotic blending hand-crafted smoothies and coffees, also from the cubes she will make herself. 

But that wasn’t often her plan. 

In Oct 2019, she experienced an strategy to make obvious ice cubes that could be bought to situations like weddings and banquets. 

She used 3 months perfecting the method, and opened her shop in February 2020, just just before COVID-19 turned a pandemic. 

“[We] kinda took a huge strike there. We closed for two months, and then sort of understood, ‘hey, we’re a meals processing plant, we don’t have to shut,’” Hephner recalled. 

Given that she tends to make and sells drinks, she was able to reopen, but with a new plan. 

The plan centered all around all those cocktail cubes. 

“Because persons ended up consuming at house, and I preferred to support them make definitely good cocktails at household,” Hephner stated. 

She believes that’s why she claimed her business has taken off. Though other organizations have been harm by the pandemic, Hephner claimed it in fact helped hers.

“If it weren’t for COVID, I never believe I’d be doing as superior as I am correct now,” Hephner said. “COVID was a blessing to my small business.”