When 25-year-old Rino Bernardi opened his first ice cream parlor in a garage in Ochsenhausen in 1978, no one would have thought it possible that a true ice cream empire would one day emerge. With a mixture of Italian charm and Swabian diligence, the charismatic businessman and his wife Gaby developed what was initially an insider tip into one of the leading ice cream parlors in the region. A welcome guest from the very beginning was music publisher and composer Siegfried Rundel. Bernardi's sweet...