‘WE ARE JUST
Former Ample Hills founders
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COURIER L 2 IFE, JULY 30-AUG. 5, 2021
BY BEN BRACHFELD
The founders of beloved
ice cream parlor Ample Hills
Creamery are looking to start
over with a new shop called
The Social, where sweettoothed
Brooklynites can get
not just ice cream, but donuts
as well.
The Social represents a
second shot in the ice cream
biz for the married founders
Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna,
after Ample Hills fi led
for bankruptcy last year owing
to a series of poor fi nancial decisions,
and was subsequently
sold to an Oregon manufacturing
company. In an interview
with Brooklyn Paper, Smith
said he and his wife opened a
new shop because it’s all they
know.
“We don’t really know how
to do anything else but make
ice cream,” Smith said over
the phone while making ice
cream at the shop. “This is
what we love and care about.
We spent a year sitting on our
butts during the pandemic,
planning and thinking and
dreaming and reassessing,
and that was enough. It was
time to get back in it.”
The Social opened on Sunday,
July 25, with Sen. Chuck
Schumer on hand to help cut
the ribbon at the new store at
816 Washington Ave. in Prospect
Heights. Smith says that
business has been great, to the
point that they are struggling
to keep up.
“We’re struggling to keep
up with production right now,
which is a very uncomfortable
place to be, but it’s better than
nobody coming into the shop,”
Smith said. “I’m optimistic
and hopeful, people seem to
be enjoying the new fl avors
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