not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources twistee treat news newspapers books scholar jstor free images august 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message minden ontario twistee treat restaurant twistee treat is a corporate owned chain of ice cream restaurants founded in 1983 in north fort myers florida . the restaurants are characterized by buildings shaped in the form of soft serve ice cream cones . 1 the company is currently expanding throughout the orlando and tampa markets building new stores . corporate stores are marked with a chocolate dip and led colored sprinkles on the roof of the cone . contents 1 history 2 bankruptcy and original franchises 3 twistee treat usa 4 existing stores owned by previous franchisees 5 references 6 external links history edit the original twistee treat was a franchised chain of ice cream restaurants founded in 1983 in north fort myers florida . the restaurants are characterized by buildings shaped in the form of soft serve ice cream cones . 1 the original company which had 23 locations in florida went into bankruptcy in the early 1990s . a new twistee treat company based in warrensburg missouri was formed in 1996 . as of 1999 the new company had 35 locations in florida and missouri . the company also sold a franchise to a chatham ontario based company that year . in 2010 a new company twistee treat usa began building new stores . bankruptcy and original franchises edit when the original and subsequently the second parent company for twistee treat ceased operations the rights to the name and building were handed over to the individual franchisees . twistee treat usa edit in 2010 twistee treat usa acquired the patents and rights to the company . they began building new stores under the twistee treat name utilizing old buildings purchased from previous franchisees . a new building design was also created and will be used for future company expansion . existing stores owned by previous franchisees edit while all new twistee treat stores are corporate owned several privately owned stores from the previous corporations still operate around the us . these currently existing stores were granted the rights to use the name and building design and are allowed to operate as they are . new buildings under the twistee treat banner are corporate owned . references edit a b bahr jeff 2009 . amazing and unusual america . chicago illinois usa publications international ltd. p. 113 . isbn 978 1 4127 1683 3 . external links edit twistee treat usa official website twistee treat to develop twistee treat stores with metro treat inc. twistee treat corporation filings with the united states securities and exchange commission retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title twistee treat & oldid 736359304 categories companies established in 1983companies based in missouriice cream parlorsrestaurants in floridahidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from august 2016all articles with topics of unclear notability 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 26 august 2016 at 23 07 . 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