A new Italian ice shop opened their doors today in Lakeland and the new business owner that made it happen has a unique story. Gina Tullio is a Jersey native but USF Alumni. She told me she moved back to Florida two years ago when her husband got a job offer they couldn’t refuse. A year later, after getting comfortable in Lakeland they had their first daughter and Tullio says the motivation to start an Italian ice shop up, started with cravings.

“I Jersey we have a lot of places you can get that Italian ice and when I moved here there was one, in our area but it closed,” said Tullio. “I had my husband drive all the way to Clearwater from Lakeland to get it after that so, eventually – I decided to open my own.”