7-Eleven's name for its version of the ICEE was self-explanatory. "The first time I heard that sound through a straw, it just came out 'slurp,'" Bob Stanford, the director of 7-Eleven's in-house ...

ICEE is owned by parent company J&J Snack Foods, which also owns Super Pretzel and Dippin' Dots. Dan Fachner has been with the ICEE company for decades and now leads J&J Snack Foods from its ...