San Mateo resident Jason “Jolly” Herrick worked for about 25 years as a software engineer before deciding to pursue another path: starting his own ice cream shop.

After attending a weeklong training in South Carolina specifically for people looking to open ice cream businesses, he says, he decided to try it out, and he and Vanessa “Essie” Greene, his wife and co-owner, began to develop a range of flavors. They wanted to see if they could develop a whole menu based on teas, and it wasn’t long before they realized there were plenty of flavors to work with.

They launched a food truck and spent about six years running their ice cream truck before finally opening the brick-and-mortar location of Jolly Old Fashioned Teas Cream in September.

The ice cream shop is in an old Belmont building tha

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