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Rich Graeter Talks Family, Craft & Ice Cream Legacy
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Rich Graeter Talks Family, Craft & Ice Cream Legacy

Rich Graeter sits down with Restaurant Business to talk family, French Pot craft, and 155 years of stubborn ice cream making.
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Best Ice Cream Chain

Graeter's Nominated for Newsweek's Best Ice Cream Chain

Graeter's is nominated for Newsweek's 2026 Readers' Choice Award for Best Ice Cream Chain. Voting is open — here's how to cast your vote.
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America's Ice Cream Obsession: What the Data Confirms

A new data study mapped America's favorite ice cream flavors — and confirmed what we've known since 1870: this is a nation of true ice cream lovers.
Newsweek Award for Graeter's Ice Cream
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Graeter's Earns Newsweek's 5-Star Rating

Newsweek named Graeter's one of America's Favorite Restaurant Chains with a five-star rating — here's what that honor means to us.
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Award-Winning Ice Cream

Cincinnati's Best Ice Cream, 18 Years Running

CityBeat readers just named Graeter's Best Ice Cream in Cincinnati for the 18th year in a row. Here's the stubborn reason we keep earning it.
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Richard Graeter: 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year

In 2014, Richard Graeter was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the East Central region — a nod to five generations of stubborn craft.
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Graeter's Named a People's Choice Favorite

Graeter's is honored to be named a People's Choice favorite — a win we credit entirely to the ice cream lovers who've stuck by us since 1870.
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Graeter's Wins Plant of the Year: Craft Over Shortcuts

Graeter's hands-on ice cream plant just earned a Plant of the Year nod. Here's why doing things the hard way finally got some recognition.