{"id":4238,"date":"2012-06-20T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/newsite\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/papa-jims-serving-up-some-tasty-treats\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:04:48","slug":"papa-jims-serving-up-some-tasty-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/2012\/06\/papa-jims-serving-up-some-tasty-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"PaPa Jim\u2019s serving up some tasty treats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cWe serve all types of soft serve ice cream treats including banana splits, shakes, and sundaes,\u201d said Jim Toms, who opened the business last October. \u201cOur specialty desserts are the Arctic Blast and the Avalanche.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been doing well and business has been picking up now with the warm weather and summer coming,\u201d said Toms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been in the food business for 38 years,\u201d said Toms. He worked for SAGE Dining Services in Maryland for fifteen years and traveled for SAGE out West as a trouble shooter for the company, filling in and helping set up new accounts where needed. But with the sudden downturn in the economy, Toms\u2019 position was eliminated. The same thing happened at the Oakland School where he worked for ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a year of not finding work, I decided to start this business,\u201d he said. \u201cI started building my stand at my house on South Boston Road with the help of my wife, a retired RN from University of Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PaPa Jim\u2019s also has a collection of canines enjoying a tasty treat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDogs are welcomed too,\u201d he said, smiling.<\/p>\n<p>PaPa Jim\u2019s is open Tuesday to Thursday from noon to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from noon to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m.-9 p.m. For more information, call 540-421-7867.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/2012June\/jimtomspapajims.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jim Toms opened PaPa Jim\u2019s in October.\" title=\"Jim Toms opened PaPa Jim\u2019s in October.\" align=\"right\" \/>Out on Rt.15, in Troy, next to the Troy Deli, is PaPa Jim\u2019s Soft Serve Treats, housed under a big red roof. If soft ice cream is your preferred cool summer treat, then PaPa Jim\u2019s has what you\u2019re looking for in house flavors of vanilla, chocolate or a twist. But for novel taste sensation, try the Flavor Burst, classic vanilla with blends of strawberry, banana, cotton candy, tropical orange, butterscotch, mocha cappuccino, butter pecan or raspberry.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fluvannareview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}