How two friends from a $5 ice cream course turned a renovated Vermont gas station into a global brand - and why its founders are now at war with the company that owns it.
The century-old New York brand is really three businesses in one: a hometown ice-cream label, a cold-chain network and a contract manufacturer built to make other companies look good.
An 80-year-old Ohio ice cream counter is becoming a national franchise without outsourcing its central ritual: every parlor still makes the product on site. The constraint is also the pitch.
Museum of Ice Cream is an immersive, multi-sensory entertainment brand that turns the simple pleasure of ice cream into a walk-through playground of color, nostalgia, and unlimited treats. Born as a 2016 New York pop-up built around a now-iconic sprinkle pool, it grew into a chain of permanent 'experiums' across the U.S. and Singapore under parent company Figure8, blending hospitality, retail, and shareable social moments into one ticketed experience.