EXETER – When new customers visit family-owned Charlie’s Ice Cream, they will meet Doug Hanson and his children partnering with him in the venture, Lucas and Megan.
They will also meet the namesake of the homemade ice cream shop, Charlie, a friendly and excitable 3-year-old pug.
“Charlie been a total brat since he found out he was getting his own ice cream shop,” Doug Hanson said. “We were trying to think of a good name and Charlie was just sitting on the couch starring at us until we said, ‘How about Charlie’s?’ and he looked back at us, almost in approval like, ‘That sounds good to me.’”