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OddFellows Ice Cream Co.

Dining · 10+ locations · NYC, Montclair, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Wesley Chapel, The Woodlands, Seoul

OddFellows still reads as the quirky Williamsburg scoop shop behind pretzel and miso ice cream. It's actually a multi-state franchise brand now, with shops from Tampa to Seoul and outside investors along for the ride. Founders Mohan Kumar and Sam Mason still run it.

Investor-backedFounder-runFranchise

The Big Picture

Mixed Picture

Thirteen years in, OddFellows is still run by the people who started it, and it has quietly become a franchise chain selling territories on the strength of its flavor catalog. The mixed part is transparency and the shop floor: workers rate it 3.1 out of 5 on Glassdoor, and beyond one sentence about eastern Pennsylvania farms it publishes nothing about its suppliers or environmental footprint. Day to day it answers to its founders — plus, increasingly, to the franchisees who now carry its expansion.

Let's Get Critical

Local ownership
7/10
Founder involvement
9/10
Worker pay & benefits
5/10
Environmental impact
5/10
Sourcing & labor
6/10

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Company data last updated August 2026

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