This is a Scottsdale landmark. We grew up with it.
The food is ok. The ice cream is ok. The inside is borderline gross.
Come ON Sugar Bowl! Get with the program!!
It's ok to offer more modern products like some local ice creams or burgers from one of our ranches. There is a way to make it a memorable experience and you're missing the mark. I see all of these tourists flooding in because it's "iconic" my god how embarrassing for we Arizonan's.
Fix your flooring, get new wallpaper, allow the arcade to feel less South Glendale ghetto. I feel dirty when I leave the place, as if the floors & counters haven't been washed for years. I'm sure they have, codes and all you know - but they're old & they look dingy.
I want to love you. I grew up with you. But I am disappointed in you. Pick yourself up, brush off 1950 & embrace what the 21st Century is about. Clean food, supporting local, an interior that might LOOK mid-century but one we don't have to fear that the ghost of Bil Keane is going to swoosh out from under a sticky table.
You can do it.