Davey's Ice Cream
Dining · 3+ locations · NYC: East Village, Midtown (Moynihan Train Hall), Greenpoint
Davey's Ice Cream looks like a typical East Village scoop shop. It's still run the way it started: founder David Yoo self-funded it with savings and a bank loan in 2013, and still sets every flavor himself across three NYC shops, no investor on record.
The Big Picture
David Yoo has self-funded and run Davey's Ice Cream since opening it in the East Village in 2013, growing to three New York City shops on a bank loan and its own profits, with no investor on record. A shop this size leaves little public labor or environmental record either way. It answers to its founder and to nobody else.
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