Handel's Homemade Ice Cream in Chula Vista's Eastlake area scoops from a rotating roster of over 150 flavors at 1450 Eastlake Parkway, representing a franchise founded in 1945 by Alice Handel at her husband's gas station in Youngstown, Ohio. Every batch is churned on-site using the original old-fashioned recipes — a made-in-store commitment that puts Handel's in a different production class than the dessert menus at full-service restaurants including BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse at Otay Ranch Town Center. Flavors span regional specialties rarely seen on the West Coast — Black Walnut, Blue Moon, Buckeye — alongside signatures such as Spouse Like a House (malted vanilla, Reese's Peanut Butter ripple, chocolate-covered pretzels). The Hurricane blended-ice-cream format thick-mixes any flavor with mix-ins into a spoonable dessert, a frozen-custard relative popular with the post-entertainment crowd from K1 Speed Chula Vista and nearby Otay Ranch attractions. Each location churns every flavor on-site in small-batch kettles using whole cream, cane sugar, and fresh fruit — a single-store production model that bypasses the central-commissary distribution used by most national ice cream franchise chains.