BENZIE COUNTY — The Cherry Bowl Drive in has been a staple in Northern Michigan since the 1950s, and the community was worried when it went for sale in 2024.

Mindi Jarmen and her husband soon bought it, and will soon be wrapping up their very first season as drive through owners, but how did they do?

Mindi tells us that it went great, but adds “I am consistently telling people that this is the best choice we’ve ever made. It has been absolutely a joy every single day. You know, we definitely missed ordering things or ordered too much of things. We there was one day when we weren’t sure that the movie was going to arrive in time, or we had to learn how to ingest the movies and put them into our camera in general. So it was just a huge learning curve. There was so much that happened. There

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