My wife, and I have owned the Tastee Twirl since Oct of 2013, and had our grand opening on April 1, 2014. We open in April, and close in Sept. We pride ourselves in having passed every surprise inspection by the Mercer County Health Department since first opening for business, with consistently high marks for cleanliness, and maintaining proper safe food temperatures. Those inspections are done at least twice during our six month season. Our menu offers 15 different sandwich choices, with 8 different side choices. Our old fashion soft serve vanilla ice cream is still made with 10% butterfat, like it used to be made, unlike most other soft serve ice cream businesses that use 5% - 6% butterfat content. There is a difference that you can easily taste. I don't know who uses it, but I do know that you can buy soft serve ice cream mix with as low as a 3% butterfat content. They wouldn't make/offer it, if some businesses weren't buying/ordering it. Come April of 2018, our new, expanded, and paved parking lot will be able to accommodate school, and tour buses, vehicles towing boats, campers, trailers, etc., along with parking for about 15 cars/pickups. We offer drive thru service for cars, and pickup trucks. If you're ever near Rockford in the summer time, stop in, and put us to the test. We welcome the challenge to impress you with our quality, and price of our menu items, and our friendly service. read more