“Hi ladies!” she’ll shout to the day’s first customers, who show up half an hour before opening. With a youthful blonde mane of tightly wound curls (and the energy level to match it), Paugh brings a cool mother-hen vibe to her establishment. Unless (Jonathan and Hunter) grow up and decide they want to go crazy, this is the Walrus, that's all there is to it. “We really tried to get that (location) to go, and it just never took off,” she said. Two years ago, Lisa Paugh took over managing the business and its 27 employees, around the same time that the south Fort Collins Walrus closed. When they turned 16, they moved to the downtown Walrus, which they still help their mom run, at least for another year before they go off to college. The brothers began helping their dad at events at age 12, and then training in the shop’s second, Boardwalk Drive location, by age 14. “It is kind of tough when you continue to get older and your employees stay the same age all the time,” she says, referring to both her ex-husband’s decision to retire from day-to-day operations and Steve Orner’s decision to sell the business in 1999.Īround the time that Lisa and John Paugh started bringing up an ice cream shop, they also had two twin boys, Jonathan and Hunter. When they sold the business to Paugh and her then-husband John, “they handed us something that was phenomenal, and we just had to maintain it,” Paugh said, wanting to give them proper credit.įor 15 years, John Paugh ran the ice cream parlor, while Lisa kept her job at Safeway. They started serving “joke” flavors, made with unlikely ice cream ingredients, in small spoonfuls to customers. To decorate, Orner and Corners hung childrens art on the walls and a neon Walrus Ice Cream sign in the window.
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