In 1975, Prabhakar had founded the Ideal Ice Cream brand in Mangaluru. Ideal has five parlours in the city and its products are available in retail outlets in three states. It became one of the popular ice cream brands in coastal Karnataka and across the state. He started Ideal with its first shop on Hampankatta Road in 1975 serving 14 different flavours of ice cream. It was located at the heart of the city near Wenlock Hospital at the time. Its retail network now stretches across coastal Karnataka, north Kerala and south Goa.
The famous Ice Cream Parlour Pabbas on MG Road in Mangaluru is an outlet of Ideal Ice Cream. Prabhakar was fondly called ‘Pabba Maam’, a name that was given to the ice cream parlour that opened in 1996. He was into social and religious services too which made him famous.
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