Irv Robbins. The company founders Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins were brothers-in-law. In the 1970s the chain went international opening stores in Japan Saudi Arabia Korea and Australia.
WASHINGTON Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irv Robbins retired in 1979 and sold his Encino home with the ice cream cone-shaped swimming pool. Along with Burt Baskin he co-founded the Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream franchise in 1945. Famed for its 31 flavors concept Baskin-Robbins grew to have over 5500 outlets around the world.
Irv Robbins was born in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada and raised in Washington state.
The company founders Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins were brothers-in-law. Robbins was the son of a dairyman and grew up working in the familys ice. Did you know that Irvine Irv Robbins 1917-2008 co-founder of Baskin-Robbins opened his first ice cream store using money he saved from his BarMitzvahBorn in Winnipeg to Eastern European Jewish immigrants Robbins grew up working in his fathers ice cream parlor in Tacoma Washington. Baskin-Robbins had 43 stores by the end of 1949 more than 100 by 1960 and about 500 when the ice cream empire was sold to United Fruit Co.