{"id":208234,"date":"2026-04-24T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208234\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:22:13","slug":"original-abbotts-frozen-custard-shop-celebrates-100-years-in-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208234\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Abbott&#8217;s Frozen Custard shop celebrates 100 years in Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 The original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbottscustard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abbott&#8217;s Frozen Custard<\/a> in the Charlotte area is celebrating its 100th anniversary season.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark ice cream shop on Lake Avenue started off in 1926 as a custard stand. It was opened by Arthur Abbott, who fell in love with Rochester after traveling the country.<\/p>\n<p>For 100 years, Abbott\u2019s Frozen Custard in Charlotte has been a gathering spot for anyone and everyone in this community to come for a sweet treat served with a smile,&#8221; Gail Drew, owner and president of Abbott&#8217;s, said in a statement. &#8220;We love our guests, and are truly honored to be part of so many of their traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are more than 30 Abbott&#8217;s locations. Most of them are in the Rochester region, but there&#8217;s also shops in Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida and Louisiana<\/p>\n<p>The Lake Avenue shop is hosting a day of community-focused festivities July 17 to celebrate 100 years of business. Details will be released in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 The original Abbott&#8217;s Frozen Custard in the Charlotte area is celebrating its 100th anniversary season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-208234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}