Scout trio take up a tempting offer (From York Press)

Temptations Coffee and Ice Cream Parlour opens in Stamford Bridge

10:00am Friday 3rd February 2012 in Business news By Richard Catton, richard.catton@thepress.co.uk

WHAT started out as an idea by three scout leaders sitting around a camp fire has turned into the newest ice-cream parlour in an East Yorkshire town.

Former York Hospital care assistant Sian Mortimer, 24, said the idea for Temptations Coffee and Ice Cream Parlour, which opened on Monday in Stamford Bridge, came after she commented on her love of ice-cream to fellow Scout leaders Matthew Taylor and Darren Barber.

She said: “We were around the camp fire one night and I mentioned that I would like to open an ice-cream shop, and Darren said there was the empty HSBC building in town.

“A few days later he said ‘let’s go for it’.

“So we have taken over the old HSBC bank which closed at the beginning of last year then came up for let.”

Sian will now manage the business day to day while her two partners, who each have careers of their own, will take a back seat.

She admited that while she had some catering experience, her knowledge of the ice-cream trade was limited, and opening the shop had been a steep learning curve.

“We had to learn very quickly how to serve ice-cream and things like what the best temperatures are for storing it,” she said.

Sian also said the shop had linked up with the tiny Yorkshire Wolds Dairy Ice Cream at Burton Fleming near Filey.

The family-owned business produces ice-cream, gelato, sorbets and yoghurt ice-cream and, as well as supplying Temptations, provides ice-cream for hotels, farm shops, restaurants and The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.