The Brigham Young University Creamery is a

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for

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s living in

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. Students may purchase

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and other items using their Cougar Cash accounts (an on-campus

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system) or traditional

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methods. BYU Creamery has four locations in Provo,

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: Creamery on Ninth East, Helaman Creamery, Wyview Creamery, and the Creamery Outlet.

History

The Creamery opened in 1949, providing

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for Brigham Young University’s campus. Soon, it began to sell

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s, and other

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-produced

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s. Today, in addition to its own line of foods, the Creamery sells various general supermarket items, from

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to paper

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s. The Creamery on Ninth East opened in August 2000, replacing Kent's Market, which closed during the 1998 – 1999 school year. According to the BYU Dining Services statistics, more than 191,000 gallons of Creamery ice cream are served each year. A Wymount location, in the Wymount Terrace Administration Building, closed in 2010. In 2018, as a part of 21 years of most "Stone Cold Sober" school by Princeton review, BYU Creamery released a new flavor of milk, mint brownie chocolate milk.

Trivia

*BYU's building block system abbreviates the Creamery on Ninth East as CONE.

References

External links

BYU Creamery

Brigham Young University Homepage

The Creamery's distribution partner, Western Family

Restaurants and Institutions article on the Creamery on 9th's opening
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