Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream

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Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream
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Exterior of the Capitol Hill location, 2022
Restaurant information
Established2008 (2008)
Owner(s)Molly Moon Neitzel
Food type Ice cream
City Seattle
State Washington
CountryUnited States
Website mollymoon.com

Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream is an ice cream parlor with multiple locations in the Seattle metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Washington. The business was founded by chief executive officer Molly Moon Neitzel in 2008. [1] [2]

Contents

Ice cream is made on-site in each of its shops, rather than in central commissaries, to avoid the possibility that ice cream will partially melt and refreeze during delivery. [3]

History

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Exterior sign of the Capitol Hill location, 2014

Molly Moon Neitzel opened the first ice cream shop in Wallingford in 2008. [4] A location opened in the Madrona neighborhood in May 2011. [5] A fifth location opened in downtown Seattle in June. [6] The Queen Anne location opened in September 2011. [7] [8] [9] On opening day, the shop offered free ice cream scoops to children. [10]

Molly Moon's built small parks outside shops in Wallingford and Madrona in 2014, as part of Seattle's pilot parklet program. [11] In 2014, the company was sued for alleged improper disposal of dairy waste; tailors neighboring the Queen Anne location claimed that the waste pooled and rotted in the crawlspace under their shop, causing an overpowering smell that sickened one of the owners and forced them to stop taking some work. [12]

A seventh shop opened in Redmond in 2016, [13] and an eighth location opened in Columbia City in 2017. [14] [15] Free scoops for children were offered for the opening of the Columbia City location. [16]

All shops offered free scoops to the first 100 customers for the company's tenth anniversary in 2018. [17]

In 2020, following the removal of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, the Capitol Hill location attracted national news attention for posting a sign asking armed police officers not to enter the shop, including them under its "gun free zone" policy. [18] [19] [20] In 2023, the business announced plans to operate in the Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility, near the Colman Dock along the Waterfront. [21]

Reception

Eater Seattle included Molly Moon's in 2021 list of "Great Places to Get Ice Cream and Gelato in Seattle". [22]

See also

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  1. ↑ Vermillion, Allecia (2011-07-22). "40 Under 40". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  2. ↑ "Daring Women Q&A: Molly Moon Neitzel, Founder and CEO of Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream". Seattle Business Magazine. 2018-07-11. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  3. ↑ Mertz Esswein, Patricia (2017-06-09). "Small-Business Success Story: Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream". Kipplinger's. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  4. ↑ "Get the Scoop on the Pay-Transparency Push at Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream". Seattle Business Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  5. ↑ Vermillion, Allecia (2011-05-18). "Molly Moon's Madrona Opens Next Week". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  6. ↑ Vermillion, Allecia (2011-06-28). "Molly Moon's New Location". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  7. ↑ Vermillion, Allecia (2011-04-14). "More Molly Moon's". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  8. ↑ Vermillion, Allecia (2011-09-01). "Molly Moon's Queen Anne". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  9. ↑ Vermillion, Allecia (2011-09-13). "Molly Moon's Queen Anne Cometh". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  10. ↑ Vermillion, Allecia (2011-09-15). "Molly Moon's Queen Anne". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2015-07-20. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  11. ↑ Billups, Sara (2014-03-25). "Molly Moon's Builds Parklets; Brouwer's Turns Nine". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  12. ↑ Pulkkinen, Levi (2014-07-01). "Angry neighbor: Molly Moon's ice cream smell 'unbearable'". Seattlepi.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
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  14. ↑ Callaghan, Adam H. (2016-07-14). "Molly Moon's Eighth Ice Cream Shop Coming to Columbia City". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
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  16. ↑ Hill, Megan (2017-05-30). "Kids Eat Free Friday as Molly Moon's Marks Its Columbia City Arrival". Eater Seattle. Archived from the original on 2018-08-25. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
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