Hunter Gutwein and his wife, Hayley, weren’t necessarily ready to pull the trigger on another expansion move, until they saw the place available to them.

“The timing may not have been the best, but the location was,” said Gutwein, The Original Rich’s Ice Cream owner who opened the door to a fourth location in Surf City on June 26. “The real estate agent who sold us the Manahawkin property said he had a place on LBI for us to look at and we really weren’t dead set on another store.