

- Description
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The Ice Box is a local ice cream and gelato shop and now an operator of city of St.Thomas concession booth doing food and treats.
Additionally we have The Ice Box Event Fund; a not for profit arm that allows us to host events for the community and allow them to grow every year
- Number of employees
- 11 - 50 employees
- Company website
- https://theicebox.ca
- Industries
- Hospitality Retail
Recent projects
Website Development
Our company is looking into introducing a website for community engagement and enjoyment across the city. . We would like to work with students to develop a new website that is easy to maintain while providing an appealing interface for users. This can be achieved through common site building tools; we currently use Canva and can offer login access to the team to create on there This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Building a forum for community submissions Connecting website "points of interest" with google maps Building a cohesive ad space program so as to the website generates revenue for our continued upkeep
Ecological Packaging Research
We are looking for assistance in sourcing biodegradable or fully recyclable packaging. Our product currently comes in plastic packaging that is not fully recyclable. Our limited person-power has left us unable to source packaging that meets all of our criteria. Our packaging requirements are as follows: Either fully recyclable or biodegradable Hot fillable at 90-95 degrees Celsius Is fridge and freezer storable Looks attractive on shelf Costs less than 15 cents per unit and is ideally already labelled Is lightweight for shipping (not glass) Annual orders of approximately 10-20k units (pending scalability)
Food ordering app development
We are looking to create a food development app for our business: The Ice Box and later to expand to offer to the other restaurants in the city Restaurants are burdened with 30% gross revenue costs by the big food delivery apps; we want to make a custom one that takes significantly less from the restaurants but can still maintain itself and promote our cities great restaurants. We are looking for one that can have a mobile app that can handle payment and notify a local contracted business for food delivery. The website and app would have viewer for customer and ease of use back end to update menus etc. Additionally we would look for an app or notification system for the restaurant of the order so they can handle the order and supply to items ordered.
Marketing Intern
We’re looking for a student to help us source, curate, develop, and post the content implementing strategies to increase awareness and nurture engagement. Based on our goals, we are looking for the student to work on the following: Content Calendar Curation: timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our site Social Media Management: overseeing different channels that we own and keeping them up-to-date Content Development SEO Website redevelopment B2B marketing along with consumer marketing Development of franchise related marketing Other marketing-related tasks