privately held industry dairy products convenience stores founded 1938 founder carl lindner sr. headquarters norwood ohio united states number of locations 210 1 area served ohio kentucky indiana products homemade brand ice cream owner lindner family website http www.udfinc.com udf eggnog united dairy farmers udf is an american chain of shops offering ice cream and other dairy products started by carl lindner sr. and his children carl jr. robert richard and dorothy in 1938 . almost as soon as they started operations the lindners began work on building a dairy store . carl sr. believed that if he could sell milk through his own store he would not have to deal with delivery middlemen and thus be able to pass the resulting savings on to his customers . the first united dairy farmers store at 3955 main avenue now montgomery road in norwood ohio a suburb of cincinnati opened on may 8 1940 . in 1982 at the urging of sons brad and jeff udf debuted homemade brand premium ice cream . 1 today the chain has stores throughout the greater cincinnati area as well as dayton cleveland and columbus . many udf stores also operate a gas station and a convenience store . since 2001 many locations have sold gasoline under the mobil brand but are now supplying their own fuels via purchasing through independent wholesalers . 2 references edit a b 1 homemade brand anything but homebound external links edit official website this food and or confectionery corporation or company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title united dairy farmers & oldid 743988830 categories companies based in cincinnaticompanies established in 1938convenience stores of the united statesdairy products companies of the united statesfood company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 12 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view