Membership Highlight | A Documentary

Trung Dinh

Owner of 

Kona Ice of Annandale and Burke

My name is Trung Dinh. I am 48 years old and was born in Vietnam and migrated to America along with my family in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam war known as The fall of Saigon. I graduated from George Mason University in 1996 and have a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems. 

I worked in corporate IT (Information Technology) for over 20 years until I was laid off in 2018. After a long tenure in the corporate world, I decided to move on to start a new journey in life.

I have always been fortunate and thankful to have had a great career, opportunities to travel around the world, met and made deep friendships along the way but it was time to settle down and do something I am passionate about - eating and making food and bringing out emotions in people when they eat my food.

I opened my food truck in April 2019. After 6 months of research and exploring the type of food business I want to do, I decided to purchase a franchise called Kona Ice offers premium flavors Hawaiian style shaved ice from a mobile truck. 

It's not just about our delicious flavors that you can pour yourselves, it's also about delivering a super fun experience to our customers as well as giving back to our community in the form of fundraising and sponsoring free Kona Ice to those that are less fortunate. This is why I chose this franchise and to be part of the Kona Ice family. We take care of each other and our community.

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