DC-area ice cream shop owner looking for buyer to scoop up her business

After more than years of serving up ice cream such as honey lavender and wild blueberry the owner of two D C -area ice cream shops is looking for a buyer to scoop up her business Susan Soorenko the owner of Moorenko s Ice Cream owns two shops One at Georgia Ave in Silver Spring and the other on Capitol Hill at C St SE in D C This winter as first broadcasted by the Source of the Spring website a notice was taped to the window of her Silver Spring shop saying just We re very sorry Moorenko s is closed due to medicinal reasons Soorenko stated that after she was struck by a car in February it became clear that the injuries she sustained have made keeping up with the demands of the business which includes manufacturing the ice cream and providing it to area stores and restaurants has proven too great I m having hip replacement surgery in two weeks she recounted WTOP adding that for the past year she was in a lot pain and not in a place to take care of her shops There were other challenges too Winter business inevitably lags Soorenko stated despite people telling her that they eat more ice cream in the winter than they do in the summer I don t have the receipts to prove that Moorenko reported If you want us here in the summer you need to be here in the winter It s her hope that a future buyer will want to continue to make and sell the ice cream she s branded as ultra-premium a designation she mentioned is rooted in the high milk fat content that s more than Soorenko revealed for the past years the business of making and selling ultra-premium ice cream has been my heart my soul my raison-d etre She described ice cream as a joy-giving food For the minutes that you re eating that cone that s what you re focused on You re not focused on what craziness is going on in the ruling body or how are you going to pay a bill or whatever she revealed You re just eating that cone More Business Finance News Virgina-based Capital One to become nation s largest credit card company with Discover approval doesn t pay the bills for a small family in DC The number of craft brewers falls for the first time in a decade The connection to the locality has been meaningful as well We ve had people come to our shops straight from a funeral or come to us right after getting chemotherapy because ice cream was the only thing they could keep down Moorenko disclosed It s also been gratifying to see the number of children who ve grown up eating Moorenko s ice cream and are now feeding it to their children she reported Now that she s settled on selling the business Soorenko stated people have questioned her what the next chapter of her life will look like Other than moving closer to her children in Virginia Soorenko mentioned she doesn t know and that s OK I m just going to sit and breathe for a little bit and wait for the next signal whatever that may be Soorenko mentioned Source