(CBC.ca) -- People in Iqaluit now have a place to go for an ice cream cone, and when the weather is nice, staff estimate they go through 20 to 30 litres of soft serve a day.

Although there's only one flavour — vanilla — Baffin Deli says its sales are up 25 per cent over last year.

“A lot of people aren't aware the ice cream sales in the North are extremely good,” said Scott Clark, director of sales for Qikiqtaaluk Corporation. “There was no place here to get anything.”

Soft serve ice cream is not just about the taste, it's also about the swirl, and that meant new skills for staff to learn.

“First when they got the machine, everybody started making ice cream and they were all different shapes and stuff,” said Colin Piercey, Baffin Deli cook.

“With a little practice they come out not quite as nice as Dairy Queen but pretty good.”

Ice cream to arrive in Grise Fiord by September

People in Iqaluit might be enjoying ice cream, but in the High Arctic it's a different story.

Residents of Grise Fiord, Nunavut, have been without ice cream since the end of April.

Ice cream is on the subsidy list for Nutrition North but from April to October it's too hot to fly it by cargo.

Frank Holland, manager of the Grise Fiord Inuit Co-op, said ice cream is coming with the sealift.

“The Co-op has recently purchased a refrigerated seacan,” he said. “And when it lands here it will have at least a pallet of ice cream on it.”

The NNSI ship Anna Desgagnes is scheduled to arrive in Grise Fiord on Aug. 31.