Morgan was delivering vintage soda pop from the Tahoe area, where both men still reside, to a small town near Mt. Powells and Morgan came up with the idea for Rocket Fizz while on a road trip in 2007. "He was the trailblazer for reality television in 1981," Powells says. A flair for the spotlight runs in the family: Powells' uncle was Judge Joseph Wapner of The People's Court fame.
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Powells is also a whiz at celebrity and marketing tie-ins, counting reality TV star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and the late professional wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as friends. You might have seen Rocket Fizz on a January 23rd episode of the CBS show Undercover Boss, in which president and cofounder Robert Powells donned the requisite silly wig and tried to keep up with a production line. Each shop has its own salt water taffy factory, and sells gag gifts and music posters. Classics like Necco Wafers, bubble gum cigarettes and Pop Rocks sit alongside trendy green tea Kit Kats and other hard-to-find treats from Japan and Europe. They're made with mountain water from the High Sierras and real sugar, and offered alongside hundreds of other specialty sodas and a huge selection of candy. Rocket Fizz sells its own line of 115 funky soda flavors based on food-including buffalo chicken, key lime pie, bacon and "Martian poop," if that's a food. The largest and fastest-growing soda pop and candy shop in America, Rocket Fizz has 70 stores across 29 states, with 46 franchises in the works and hopes of growing internationally as well. The Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shops is on the verge of opening its 70th store at 245 Jefferson St.-possibly before Christmas, if all goes well. Taffy? Yes, they do have taffy – a ludicrous amount of it – at Rocket Fizz Bossier City.Adding to the rows of crab stands, chowder restaurants and souvenir shops, Fisherman's Wharf is sweetening the pot for tourists with another big candy store, just a block from IT'SUGAR at 333 Jefferson St. Like the Rocket Fizz Bossier City Facebook page for updates. But it’s nice to know they’re there, you know? Just in case. I’m not sure if I will ever need, for example, a one-pound box of Cookie Dough Bites or a selection of 40 different kinds of root beer. New items are added monthly and floor displays are regularly “switched around” to encourage customers to see more of the mind-boggling variety of sweets on offer. He also frequently welcomes groups and tour buses, who get a kick out of the shop. Morris estimates that 70% of his business consists of out-of-towners visiting the Louisiana Boardwalk Outlets. “It’s a kind of sensory overload in here, with the music pumping and candy everywhere you look.” “Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you discover something new,” Morris said. Out of more than 80 Rocket Fizz shops in the U.S., Morris said, the Bossier City location is the most successful store in the entire company. Richard Morris opened the Bossier City location of Rocket Fizz – which is a national chain headquartered in California – in March of 2016. Sriracha sauce-flavored cotton candy is a thing, and you can purchase it at Rocket Fizz Bossier City. If you’ve got an obsession with vintage or unusual sodas and candies, you’re going to love this place. There’s Sriracha sauce-flavored cotton candy, stout beer-flavored taffy, ranch dressing-flavored soda and a gigantic, 1.5-pound box of Mike n’ Ikes. At nearly 3,000 square feet, this huge candy shop located at the north end of Louisiana Boardwalk Outlets features more than 500 brands of soda, 90 different flavors of taffy and more bizarre, unexpected and altogether cool sweet treats than one person could possibly see in one visit. I don’t know what I was expecting to find on my first visit to Rocket Fizz Bossier City, but I certainly was not prepared for the scale of the place nor the amount of fun that I’d have there.
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