Dewar’s Ice Cream and Fine Candies has moved to a new location and has expanded in size.

The new store, which opened on Jan. 7, is located at 2700 Calloway Drive.

The main indoor room has a seating capacity of 64 people. This includes a 28-seat soda fountain and six large booths. They also have an outdoor patio area that can seat an additional 36 people.

Dewar’s manager Brittany Hammask said the new store took less than one year to develop. Hammask explained some of the new features inside the store. There is a singing moose head mounted on the wall, black and white Dewar’s family photos, a giant gumball machine, and an exhibit area that displays a vintage 1940s cash register and much more.

Best friends Logan Van Allen, Kelsey Neilands, and Kelsey Barnett consider it tradition to come to Dewar’s once a week to have Black and Whites. The popular ice cream sundae is made with a scoop of vanilla ice cream topped with hot fudge, and a scoop of chocolate ice cream topped with marshmallow.

Van Allen said when he simply hears the word “Dewar’s,”

“I think really family oriented and good ice cream.”

Loyal customers like Lancene Blackmon, who has been coming to Dewar’s for 50 years, says she has wonderful memories of Dewar’s.

“My best memory was when I was in junior high, and my girlfriends and I would go to Dewar’s on a hot summer day,” she said.

Bill and Cathy Prout have been coming to Dewar’s for 15 years and said that the new location had definitely met their expectations. They described it as exciting, nice and extremely spacious.

The future of Dewar’s is continuously growing with plans to open a third Dewar’s at the corner of Ming Avenue and Buena Vista Road sometime this spring. The Dewar’s that was previously at 9530 Hageman Road has closed. The third store will be considered an Express Dewar’s complete with its own drive-through and patio.