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Pandemic Side Hustle Dre s Desserts Delivers Delicious Ice Cream
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Andre Olivier really likes sweets. A Flatbush native who grew up and still lives in the area right around Brooklyn College, Olivier used to bake a lot as a kid, but his reign as the King of Desserts, as his friends and family called him, appeared to come to an end when he went to Carnegie Mellon to study civil engineering. After that, he got a job in construction management, specializing in demolition projects.
Even though his sister Simone got an ice cream maker for Christmas in 2017, and the two of them started to churn out quarts of the stuff together, Olivier didn t really have the time to focus on perfecting his craft. Then came the pandemic, and when Olivier got furloughed from his job last April, he decided to go all in, teaching himself the ice cream game and setting up his own small business