United Dairy Farmers

United Dairy Farmers (UDF) is an American chain of shops offering dairy products as well as coffee and gasoline. UDF was started by Carl Lindner, Sr. and his children in 1938. Almost as soon as they started operations, the Lindners began work on building a dairy store. Carl, Sr. believed that if he could sell milk through his own store, he would not have to deal with delivery middlemen and thus pass the resulting savings on to customers. The first United Dairy Farmers store, at 3955 Main Avenue (now Montgomery Road) in Norwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, opened on May 8, 1940.

United Dairy Farmers

Type	Privately held
Industry	Dairy products Convenience stores
Founded	1938
Founder	Carl Lindner Sr.
Headquarters	Cincinnati, Ohio , United States
Number of locations	210 [1]
Area served	Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
Products	Homemade Brand Ice Cream
Owner	Lindner family
Website	http://www.udfinc.com

Potato chips for sale at a UDF store in Columbus, Ohio

Today, the chain has stores throughout the Greater Cincinnati area as well as Dayton, and Columbus. Many UDF stores also operate a gas station and a convenience store. Since 2001, many locations have sold gasoline under the Mobil brand, but are now supplying their own fuels via purchasing through independent wholesalers.[2]

UDF was sued in June 2013 by Wendy's International for a trademark dispute concerning their Frosty treats, claiming UDF and their Homemade brand were creating a ripoff product called Frosties that used the similar yellow and red colors of their Frosty.[3] The companies settled out of court, with UDF ceasing to use the Frosties name.[4]

In April 2017, UDF left the Cleveland market and sold its four stores to Uptown Mart.[5] In the Summer of 2017, UDF teamed up with Cincinnati brewery Rhinegeist and released a beer flavored ice cream called Tropical Truth, using Rhinegeist Truth IPA.[6]