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☆ Secret Service busted into a salon to let people use the bathroom during a Kamala Harris fundraiser, business owner says
  + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Secret Service agents taped over a security camera and broke into a Massachusetts hair salon while securing the area for a Kamala Harris campaign event, according to the salon's owner. Advertisement(Business Insider blurred the face of a Secret Service agent in the video below.) The fourth person, wearing a dark suit and white shirt like a Secret Service officer, stood by the door. BI asked Secret Service spokesperson Melissa McKenzie whether the agency invited other people to use the bathroom. Brian Smith, the building's landlord, said he didn't give the Secret Service permission to use the property either.
Persons: —, Kamala Harris, Harris's, Alicia Powers, Harris, Powers, Melissa McKenzie, Brian Smith, didn't, Smith, McKenzie, Bill Pickle, Pickle, Matthew Hill, she'd Organizations: Service, Secret Service, Democratic, Business, Colonial Theatre, Secret, BI, Pittsfield Police Locations: Massachusetts, Pittsfield , Massachusetts, Pittsfield, Boston
☆ Ample Hills Founders Are Out of the Business Again
  + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Julia Moskin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Despite what the Hallmark Channel tells us at this time of year, fairy-tale endings don’t always stick. Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna, the Brooklyn couple who founded Ample Hills Creamery, have been fired by the same investors who came to the rescue of the popular ice cream brand in June. Mr. Smith said in an interview that he and Ms. Cuscuna had lost everything. But Mr. Brodsky said the terms of the couple’s departure have yet to be negotiated. “That talent does not extend to running a business.”
Persons: Brian Smith, Jackie Cuscuna, Norm Brodsky, Brodsky, Smith, Cuscuna, “, ” Organizations: Hallmark, Brooklyn, Inc
☆ This couple built a $40 million ice cream company, then 'lost everything'—how they're rebuilding
  + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Ashton Jackson Zachary Green | Ashton Jackson | Zachary Green | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
The husband-and-wife duo started with an ice cream push cart before opening their first Ample Hills shop in Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. At its height, Ample Hills was valued at $40 million, with 13 scoop shops and an online store that shipped ice cream nationwide. But a year later, they opened a new Brooklyn ice cream shop called The Social. Here's how Smith and Cuscuna built a $40 million ice cream company, slowly lost it all and quickly started rebuilding again. 'The real impetus was just that joy'Opening an ice cream shop was risky.
Persons: Brian Smith, Jackie Cuscuna, Smith, Cuscuna, Zachary Green, Brian, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Bob Iger, —, They've, Lisa Teach Organizations: Schmitt Industries, CNBC, Syfy, Disney, Walt Disney Locations: Brooklyn , New York, Brooklyn, Orlando , Florida, New York, California, Florida
☆ We lost a $40M ice cream business—how we're rebuilding
  + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Zachary Green | Eric Clark | Elham Ataeiazar | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe lost a $40M ice cream business—how we're rebuildingBrian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna's ice cream company, Ample Hills Creamery, was a runaway success. A few years after they launched in Brooklyn, New York, they were endorsed by Oprah Winfrey and opened a shop at Walt Disney World. Then, in 2020, the company declared bankruptcy. Six months later, Smith and Cuscuna filed for personal bankruptcy. Now they're trying again — with new investors and a bevy of lessons learned from failure.
Persons: Brian Smith, Jackie Cuscuna's, Oprah Winfrey, Smith, Cuscuna, they're Organizations: Walt Disney Locations: Brooklyn , New York
☆ After an Epic Meltdown, Ample Hills Creamery Aims to Rise Again
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Julia Moskin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It was a sad day in Brooklyn when Ample Hills Creamery closed its doors. Just before last Christmas, the beloved ice cream parlor in Prospect Heights — and all 12 of its remaining scoop shops across the country — shut down after a decade-long roller-coaster ride of brand-building, bankruptcies and heartbreak. “We made every mistake it is possible to make,” said Brian Smith, who founded Ample Hills with his wife, Jackie Cuscuna, in 2011. To their own great surprise, they will reopen that original store on Wednesday, followed over the summer by three others in New York City. Schmitt put the company in receivership and sold off its assets, including a factory in Red Hook that cost nearly $7 million to build.
Persons: “, ”, Brian Smith, Jackie Cuscuna, Schmitt Organizations: Vanderbilt, Industries Locations: Brooklyn, Prospect Heights —, New York City, Oregon, Red Hook
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