Boom Town Creamery

[KTB]

Cash transactions are less than 5% of my retail businesses. It's honestly become more trouble than it's worth. We have to count drawers several times a day and always keep petty cash around. It's time consuming, error prone and can be an employee safety concern. I don't think I'll quit accepting it as payment but I understand the trend. With Boom Town's late hours and location I understand.

[FighttheGoodFight]

I had actually looked up once if refusing cash is illegal and it's a bit tricky how it works.

A business can legally refuse you service if you do not provide a payment method they choose to accept, but they cannot refuse to accept cash as payment for a debt incurred due to services already rendered.All because of the word debts. "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"

So for a place like Boomtown that is pretty easy. Credit card when you place the order or no service.

[fortpatches]

I had actually looked up once if refusing cash is illegal and it's a bit tricky how it works.

A business can legally refuse you service if you do not provide a payment method they choose to accept, but they cannot refuse to accept cash as payment for a debt incurred due to services already rendered.All because of the word debts. "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"

So for a place like Boomtown that is pretty easy. Credit card when you place the order or no service.

The other part of that is usually notice. So if you have a sign that says you do not accept cash, if a service is then performed, they should be able to refuse cash and require other methods.

Also, The Federal Reserve says there is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services.The bills may say “legal tender for all debts, public and private,” but a business doesn’t have to take them.
There are some places like Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey that have state laws requiring cash be accepted but, again, there is nothing at the federal level.

[Pete]

The other huge thing about businesses that take in a lot of cash is tax fraud.

What percentage of cash receipts do you think bars and haircutters report as income?

[BoulderSooner]

I had actually looked up once if refusing cash is illegal and it's a bit tricky how it works.

A business can legally refuse you service if you do not provide a payment method they choose to accept, but they cannot refuse to accept cash as payment for a debt incurred due to services already rendered.All because of the word debts. "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"

So for a place like Boomtown that is pretty easy. Credit card when you place the order or no service.

of course they make your food (and usually hand it to you) before you pay

[Pete]

of course they make your food (and usually hand it to you) before you pay

Not at counter service which is what we are talking about.

[BoulderSooner]

Not at counter service which is what we are talking about.

i was talking about boom town specifically ... we go there .. they give over the ice cream before i pay every single time ..

[Teo9969]

i was talking about boom town specifically ... we go there .. they give over the ice cream before i pay every single time ..

So they'd just be out the ice cream. If enough people do that, they'll just reverse the order of operations

[OkieBerto]

Went to the Annual Ice Cream for Breakfast event at Boom Town! They did a collab with Lee's Sandwiches. It was a Lee's coffee flavor with chunks of croissant in it. They had already sold out of that flavor when we arrived. The other flavors were great, but one was a little weird. Biscuits and Gravy, haha. I love this place!

[Anonymous.]

Boom Town Creamery opening a second location in the Skirvin this coming Spring.

[BoulderSooner]

Boom Town Creamery opening a second location in the Skirvin this coming Spring.

4th location correct??

[Anonymous.]

Looked at website, you are correct. Did not realize they had Edmond and Moore covered.

[catcherinthewry]

Boom Town Creamery opening a second location in the Skirvin this coming Spring.

They already have one in the Skirvin? Two seems excessive

[Pete]

Locally-owned Boom Town Creamery is set to open a location in downtown’s historic Skirvin Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City.

This will be the fourth location for the ice cream store which first opened in the Uptown district at 605 NW 23rd in 2022, and expanded to South OKC (10740 S. May) and Downtown Edmond (17 E. 15th).

Angela Muir and her husband moved to OKC a few years ago and saw the need for a local creamery with hand-crafted, small-batch ice cream with unique flavors.

The new Skirvin location should attract hotel guests, downtown workers, and the growing number of urban residents.

The store will front Broadway, facing the venerable B.C. Clark store. On the opposite corner, a Starbucks is under construction at 100 Park as part of a conversion from office space to more downtown living units.

Local investors Mark Beffort and Andy Burnett teamed with the Chickasaw Nation to buy the Skirvin from a Milwaukee-based operator in 2022. They immediately announced plans for $15 million in renovations. Room and ballroom renovations have commenced, and the lobby will also be refreshed.

Boom Town plans to open in the Skrivin next spring.

[BoulderSooner]

taking the "artist in residence" space??

[Pete]

taking the "artist in residence" space??

Yes.

[David]

A different kind of artistry, if you will.

[GoldFire]

I'm pretty sure the artist in residence space hasn't had an artist in it for quite a while. Shame as it was a really neat use of that space, but I'll definitely be a customer at this new use!

[Urbanized]

Pretty sure (super-talented) sculptor LaQuincey Reed didn’t move out until earlier this year. Possibly 2023, but I know for a fact he was there during 2023.

[bison34]

Great news! Boom Town is great!

[therhett17]

Hope they bring one to Midwest City soon. When these places expand throughout the metro they often skip out on us over in the east.

[DoctorTaco]

Yesterday they rolled out a limited-time flavor, Dark Chocolate Orange. It must be experienced if you are into that kind of thing.

I continue to be stunned by how good these folks are at making ice cream