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    商户名称：Three2Oh

    总部所在地：奥兰多

    网址：three2oh.com

    对Three2Oh公司来说，为客人奉上一份让人惊呼叫好的液态氮冰淇淋不仅意味着一桩前景大好的餐饮生意，还是一种附带的机会，能让其他创业者可以在液态氮上放手一试。

    2010年3月，比尔•苏利文，巴里•雷斯尼克和拉尔夫•任德兰德合起来投资3万美元创立了Three2Oh公司。这三位个个都经验丰富：苏利文1988年起就一直从事冰淇淋分销。雷斯尼克在向宾馆推销产品上拥有30年的经验。而任德兰德则从顶级烹饪机构美国烹饪研究院（CIA，Culinary Institute of America）毕业，拥有30年烹饪经验，Three2Oh的食谱正是由他一手打造。

    Three2Oh现在主攻本地庆典活动市场，为高档宾馆和婚礼提供服务。公司推出了传统口味冰淇淋和闪冻（flash-frozen）鸡尾酒冰淇淋，如咖啡酒（Kahlua）冰淇淋三明治和酒味香蕉圣代（banana splits，在剖开的条状香蕉上浇冰淇淋、掼奶油、果仁、甜水果等制成——译注），拜液态氮惊人的速冻能力所赐，这些美味能一直保持冰爽可口。

    该公司2010年总营收的20%——20万美元来自向餐厅和酒席承办者销售液态氮机，这些客户就指望着这笔生意来赚钱了。

Three2Oh

    Company : Three2Oh

    Headquarters: Orlando

    Website: three2oh.com

    For Three2Oh, show-stopping liquid nitrogen treats mean a booming catering business with a sideline opportunity to help other entrepreneurs take the liquid N2 plunge.

    Three2Oh was founded in March 2010 by owners Bill Sullivan, Barry Resnick and Ralph Rendsland with a combined $30,000 investment. The trio brings a wealth of expertise: Sullivan has worked in ice cream distribution since 1988. Resnick has 30 years experience in product sales to hotels. Rendsland, a grad of top culinary institute CIA, has three decades of culinary expertise and develops Three2Oh's recipes.

    Tapping into the local event market for high-end hotels and wedding receptions, Three2Oh offers traditional flavors and flash-frozen cocktail ice creams like Kahlua ice cream sandwiches or liquor banana splits that stay chilled due to liquid nitrogen's awesome freezing power.

    Twenty percent of the company's 2010 revenues -- $200,000 -- came from sales of liquid nitrogen machines to chefs and caterers looking to steam-power their bottom lines.