We are a creative-led, community-spirited company on a mission to make better ice creams and bring people together.
We build ice creams completely from scratch using a unique recipe honed and perfected over more than 20 years by our founder, Jeni Britton. Our ice creams have a uniquely smooth texture and buttercream body, with bright flavor and clean finish. We’re here to set new standards for ice cream classics and to create our own. At Jeni’s, you’ll find flavors inspired by our curiosities of art, history, pop culture, and beyond that simply don’t exist anywhere else.
We’re proud to be a Certified B Corp endorsed by the international nonprofit B Lab as a company that meets rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. It means we’re an evolving company—pushing forward to be better tomorrow than we are today. Using Direct Trade ingredients, employing a diverse team of people, working to improve our environmental and social impact—it’s all part of how we operate and an important part of our company culture.
Jeni started making ice cream in 1996, as a 22-year-old art and art history student obsessed with scent. Blending her own oils in her spare time, she’d throw basil oil into pasta and rose petal into creme brulee. On a whim one day, she added cayenne to a tub of chocolate ice cream and took a bite. It was cold! Sweet! Then burst into flames in her throat. Jeni knew right then and there she was going to make ice cream for the rest of her life.
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams officially opened in late November 2002, in the North Market, a centuries-old public market in Columbus, Ohio. For years, Jeni worked the counter, tweaking her recipes, and scooping for long lines of customers. This is where the earliest iterations of signature flavors like Salty Caramel, Wildberry Lavender, and Brambleberry Crisp appeared. In 2005, we opened our first Jeni’s scoop shop outside of the market—and have continued to grow ever since.
Today, we still make ice cream the same way with Jeni’s original recipe. Free of anything fake. Full of the best ingredients we can find from producers and growers who do what they do best — including milk from family-run dairies to fresh fruits and vegetables to Fair and Direct Trade chocolate, vanilla, and coffee. It’s why our ice creams are full of flavor and have an ultra smooth buttercream-like body you just won’t find anywhere else. We are a Certified B Corporation known for our social, environmental and business leadership with scoop shops nationwide, an online shop that ships to all 50 states, and distribution in top grocery stores across the country.