Friendly Ice Cream Corporation, best known for its Friendly's restaurant chain, was founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by two young brothers, 18-year-old Curtis Blake and 20-year-old Prestley Blake. Their first shop served double-dip cones for 5 cents.Friendly's is best known for its ice cream products. The restaurant serves a variety of sundaes, many in shapes, such as a monster with M&M's for eyes. The chain also serves a variety of milkshakes, including a thick milkshake known as a Fribble which is made with soft serve as oppossed to hard ice cream. In addition to these ice cream products, Friendly Ice Cream restaurants also offer a variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner items, such as hamburgers, french fries, wraps and sandwiches.Currently, more than 500 Friendly's restaurants can be found in the following 16 states along the East Coast of the United States: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia The company also manufactures ice cream for sale in thousands of supermarkets in 13 states.The company has 16,000 employees, and George Condos is the president and CEO following the resignation of John L. Cutter on September 28, 2006.Many Friendly's have an old-fashioned street clock at the entrance of the restaurant with the name of the town.