Ample Hills Creamery
Dining · 4+ locations · Brooklyn: Prospect Heights, Washington Ave; Manhattan: Upper West Side; Queens: Astoria
Ample Hills looks like classic indie Brooklyn ice cream, but its founders don't run it anymore. After a 2020 bankruptcy and a brief 2023 comeback, Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna were fired by their own investors — the shops now answer to that group instead.
The Big Picture
Ample Hills went through a 2020 bankruptcy, and founders Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna bought the brand back in June 2023 — only to be fired by their own lead investors that November. No safety or labor complaints are on record. But its four shops answer to that investor group and the CEO it installed, not to the people who started it.
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Company data last updated September 2026
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