What started out with an ice cream maker from Goodwill in a basement has now turned into a nationwide ice cream chain reinventing the way Americans experience buying ice cream.
Salt & Straw co-founder Kim Malek explained how she and her cousin Tyler Malek started out with simple beginnings to growing into 58 locations, with more on the way.
“I really had this passion for creating community gathering places,” Kim Malek said. “That was my inspiration and why I wanted to open a scoop shop.”
The origins of Salt & Straw
In 2011, the duo started selling ice cream in the Arts District in Portland, Oregon, from a pushcart. Malek had been dreaming about starting an ice cream shop for the last 10 years…