Born Athanasios Karvelas in Athens, this Greek immigrant invented America's first soft-serve ice cream after a 1934 flat tire forced him to sell melting ice cream from his truck; he founded Carvel, one of the first U.S. franchise businesses, and held patents on the soft-serve machine.
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