David Yoo has self-funded and personally run Davey's Ice Cream since opening it in the East Village in 2013, growing it to three New York City shops on a bank loan and his own profits, with no investor ever involved. As a small, three-shop operation with a simple dairy supply chain, it has little public labor or environmental record to weigh one way or the other. What's documented points to a shop still run, day to day, by the person who started it.