Friendly's

Friendly Ice Cream is a vertically integrated restaurant company serving signature sandwiches, entrees and ice-cream desserts in more than 500 company and franchised restaurants throughout the Northeast. The company also manufactures ice cream that is distributed through more than 4,500 supermarkets and other retail locations. It offers a variety of food services, including French toast, buttermilk pancakes, garden vegetable omelette, bagel with cream cheese, grilled ham and cheese, chicken quesadillas, chicken Caesar salad and chicken sandwich. It also offers various ice creams that include chocolate covered strawberry, royal banana split, chocolate chip, black raspberry, butter crunch, peanut butter, mint cookie crush and caramel cone sundae. It has more than 40 franchise partners and over 200 franchise restaurants. The company was established in 1935 and is located in Wilbraham, Mass.