Amy's Ice Creams facts for kids
Amy's Ice Creams is a well-known chain of ice cream shops located in Texas. Its main office is in Austin. Many people in Austin see Amy's as a very important local business. It is famous for its delicious ice cream. Amy Simmons owns Amy's Ice Creams. Readers of the Austin Chronicle newspaper have voted Amy's the best ice cream for eight years in a row!
How Amy's Ice Creams Started
Amy's Ice Creams, often just called Amy's, was founded by Amy Simmons in 1984. Before starting her own business, Amy was studying to become a doctor at Tufts University in Boston. While there, she worked at another ice cream shop called Steve's Ice Cream.
After Steve's Ice Cream was bought by a bigger company, Amy decided to open her own shop. She teamed up with a business partner named Scott Shaw. They chose Austin, Texas, as the perfect place for their new ice cream store. They signed the lease for their very first shop on Guadalupe Street in Austin.
Since then, Amy has opened fourteen more locations. Most of these shops are in Austin. There is also one in Houston and another in San Antonio. The Houston shop used to be inside The Rice Hotel.
In 2009, Amy Simmons said that she did not plan to open many more new stores quickly. By 2017, the company was doing very well, earning about $9 million in revenue.
