Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
20 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 28, 2018 by Jeni Britton · said 49 times in 14 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (38), Jeni Britton (10), Seth Berkowitz (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 14 mentions in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2019 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2018 13 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
Everything said about Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams, oldest first
Feb 28, 2018 positive
Feb 28, 2018 positive
Britton Bauer: Customer return visits depend on consistently offering past favorites
“The thing that draws me back to a business every single time, no matter what the business is, is the thing that I had last time I was there. I might change my mind when I get there, but it's always the thing I had last time that I loved.”
Feb 28, 2018 neutral
Feb 28, 2018
Feb 28, 2018
Britton Bauer: Enlisted three classmates to sell homemade pixie sticks at school
“I mean, we would make 10 dollars by the end of school. We could go get pizza for the whole group. Wow. I had, like, other people selling them. I'd make them at night, and then I had three other people selling them, too, and we were selling them all over the sc…”
Feb 28, 2018
Feb 28, 2018 neutral
Britton Bauer: Wholesaling ice cream triggers state over local regulations
“So if you want to make ice cream and sell it over the counter, you're governed by your, you get a permit from your local health department. But if you want to make ice cream and sell it to somebody else to resell, you then are, you then move to the state agric…”
Feb 28, 2018 negative
Feb 28, 2018 positive
Britton Bauer prefers making ice cream over selling out to corporate acquirers
“I mean, I like making ice cream, and I want to make ice cream, and that's what I do, and how I, it's actually how I think. You know, I'm 44 years old, I started making ice cream when I was 21, 22, so more than half my entire life, most of what I remember, has …”
Feb 28, 2018 positive
Feb 27, 2020
Feb 27, 2020 negative
Early capital would have prevented Bauer from mastering ice cream craft
“Let's say we would have taken, you know, a whole bunch of money early and I don't think anybody would have given it to us anyway, but let's just say we could have done that. I wouldn't have had the time to work out these details and the things that I now know …”
Feb 27, 2020
Feb 27, 2020
Feb 27, 2020
Feb 27, 2020 positive
Scaling improves food quality by unlocking superior ingredient sourcing
“I think that you can get better as you grow, and that's been my experience. When we were really small, and there's this sort of Glow around the sort of mom and pop sort of thing, I think, especially in ice cream. But when we were small, we were really limited …”
Feb 27, 2020 positive
Mar 27, 2025 negative
Jeni's Ice Cream Would Have Failed If Launched In Brooklyn
“It would be impossible to do what we do at Jenny's. All of our money would have been in, you know, rent, and paying people, and all the things that you have to do in Brooklyn that would be different from Columbus. And here we can put it all in the ice cream, a…”
Mar 27, 2025 positive
Mid-Sized Cities Provide Better Startup Launchpads Than Large Metros
“When you're in a smaller, small to mid-sized city, the city gets behind it in a different way. You know, you can really try things and also fail a lot, and people still stick with you. And I have noticed that in big cities, everybody's trying new things. Every…”