Taiyaki NYC
Japanese ice cream and taiyaki shop · 2+ locations · NYC, Boston
Fish-shaped ice cream cones made it a Chinatown landmark, and the brand spread as far as Miami and Toronto. It has since contracted to two shops, in Manhattan and Boston. Both are still founder-owned, with no outside investors on record.
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Taiyaki NYC is still owned by the people who started it in 2016, and its footprint has contracted rather than grown, leaving the Chinatown original and one Boston shop. As a two-storefront dessert business it has little public labor or environmental record to date, and it names no suppliers and holds no environmental certification. With no outside investor anywhere in the public record, the shops answer to their founders.
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