J.P. Licks is an ice cream store chain with 16 locations in and around Boston. J.P. Licks pays homage to its hometown and first location, Jamaica Plain, which is a neighborhood is colloquially referred to “J.P.” The store is known for its quality and unique flavors.
J.P. Licks uses many ingredients that can be found in a typical home kitchen and incorporates them in innovative ways to create exotic flavors. As an example, the peach ice cream is made with fresh peaches, brown sugar, cream, milk and sugar. In total, J.P. Licks has over 300 recipes including lactose-free ice cream, sorbet, sherbet, low-fat yogurt and non-fat soft yogurt. J.P. Licks is known for its ambitious flavors of the month that if anything simply draw attention for being outrageous. Examples are Cucumber, Noodle Kugle, Avocado, Disco Inferno (Tabasco flavored), Turning Japanese (wasabi flavored) and Leprechaun Brew (a green ice cream with Sam Adams beer). The stores have flavors of the month that emphasize and embellish the foods of that season. For example, for Fall it integrates the flavors of pumpkin and apple. These flavors resulted from extensive experimentation by Petryk himself.
J.P. Licks sells many regular ice cream flavors as well as hard frozen yogurt, soft frozen yogurt, dairy free ice cream, and sorbet. In 1987, J.P. Licks began producing hard and soft frozen yogurt from scratch, and now, frozen yogurt still is an important part of the store and makes up 20% of its sales.
The stores also have vegan, gluten free, and dairy free flavors, and all J.P. Licks products are also Kosher certified.
