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Salt and Straw Ice Cream

Salt and Straw Ice Cream

San Francisco, CA

Restaurants
2201 Fillmore St, San Francisco 94115, CA
Salt and Straw Ice Cream story is part luck, part strategy and part love (for ice cream, family, local foods, and other stuff they can’t mention here). Kim have been wanting to open an ice cream scoop shop since 1996. He thought it would be nice to have a local spot where you could run into your neighbors, celebrate with your family, reward yourself…whatever! And he love exploring fun, interesting new flavors. After toiling away in safe mode working for several amazing Fortune 500 businesses, he moved back to Portland for love and found the window of opportunity and support that he’d been lacking to jump start his idea.

In the mean time, his cousin Tyler had been studying in China and traveling in Asia. Just completed his business degree and had just announced to the family that he was going to enroll in Culinary School. Kim actually saw a posting on Facebook that he was considering moving to Portland and phoned him up…not even knowing about his plans! They traded stories and updated each other – coming to realize they are on similar paths by coincidence. Next thing he knew, he was getting reports from Tyler regarding ice cream tests he was running with his friends and family as tasters. He had a million ideas and wanted to join him in this crazy idea. How could he resist? Kim literally dropped what he was doing, loaded up his car and drove to Portland from Seattle to start work as their head ice cream maker the very next day. Kim would probably be somewhere rocking back and forth in a corner without him. He’s amazingly talented, super smart, hard working, and quite possibly the nicest person ever.

So…Kim cashed in his 401K, signed a lease, created a custom push cart, and spent days and days in Sarah Masoni’s kitchen (head of R &D at the Oregon Food Innovation Center) creating ice cream recipes.

Salt & Straw hoping to create the kind of company that’s fun to support, work for, and partner with. They’re about building strong local community – both in the neighborhoods where they do business and by purchasing as many local products as possible (to keep their money in Oregon and help create stronger local economies).

But at the end of the day, we just really hope you enjoy the ice cream.
2201 Fillmore St, San Francisco 94115, CA
Salt and Straw Ice Cream story is part luck, part strategy and part love (for ice cream, family, local foods, and other stuff they can’t mention here). Kim have been wanting to open an ice cream scoop shop since 1996. He thought it would be nice to have a local spot where you could run into your neighbors, celebrate with your family, reward yourself…whatever! And he love exploring fun, interesting new flavors. After toiling away in safe mode working for several amazing Fortune 500 businesses, he moved back to Portland for love and found the window of opportunity and support that he’d been lacking to jump start his idea.

In the mean time, his cousin Tyler had been studying in China and traveling in Asia. Just completed his business degree and had just announced to the family that he was going to enroll in Culinary School. Kim actually saw a posting on Facebook that he was considering moving to Portland and phoned him up…not even knowing about his plans! They traded stories and updated each other – coming to realize they are on similar paths by coincidence. Next thing he knew, he was getting reports from Tyler regarding ice cream tests he was running with his friends and family as tasters. He had a million ideas and wanted to join him in this crazy idea. How could he resist? Kim literally dropped what he was doing, loaded up his car and drove to Portland from Seattle to start work as their head ice cream maker the very next day. Kim would probably be somewhere rocking back and forth in a corner without him. He’s amazingly talented, super smart, hard working, and quite possibly the nicest person ever.

So…Kim cashed in his 401K, signed a lease, created a custom push cart, and spent days and days in Sarah Masoni’s kitchen (head of R &D at the Oregon Food Innovation Center) creating ice cream recipes.

Salt & Straw hoping to create the kind of company that’s fun to support, work for, and partner with. They’re about building strong local community – both in the neighborhoods where they do business and by purchasing as many local products as possible (to keep their money in Oregon and help create stronger local economies).

But at the end of the day, we just really hope you enjoy the ice cream.

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