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 ever involved.
The Big Picture
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.
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