A member of the Bunn coffee maker and banking family, she lived in Laguna Beach, California, before moving to New York City to attend the Parsons School of Design (Bunn’s spokesperson disputes this characterization, noting that Bunn ‘was raised by a single mother and has no direct ties to the Bunn coffee maker company'). “The people that created MOIC were creating and can still create other concepts that would resonate in the world of live entertainment.”īunn likes to burnish her bona fides as a visionary with a large dose of Horatio Alger. “I always compared it to a creative studio, production company-like Pixar created Toy Story but they could use that creativity to create other things,” says Will McClelland, who led the round for Elizabeth Ventures (and is a college buddy of Manish Vora, the MOIC’s president, and Bunn’s fiance). The founder of Skinnygirl and a star of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” Bethenny Frankel took a dip in the pool of nearly 100 million anti-microbial sprinkles at the Manhattan museum on opening night. And above all, these employees say, she displays hubris without the talent to back it up. At this paean to everything sweet, they say that Bunn manages by intimidation, verbally accosting employees and publicly berating them for mistakes, while ignoring the expertise of older, more experienced hires. That’s already a Herculean problem: the pandemic makes the prospect of jumping into a perpetually-trafficked vat of colored plastic about as appealing as licking the restroom faucet.īut interviews with more than 20 former employees, most of whom worked directly with Bunn in MOIC headquarters, several still at the company right until March’s layoffs, point to a culture problem that cuts across the company. This morning, MOIC is holding a town hall to lay out Bunn’s plan to reopen to the public by the end of this month, pending Phase 3 changes. In March, Bunn temporarily closed the permanent installations in New York and San Francisco, and laid off around 200 workers. This rainbow, however, doesn’t end with a pot of gold - from all indications, the Museum of Ice Cream is melting down.
Founder and CEO of the Museum of Ice Cream Maryellis Bunn at the December 2019 debut party for the company's New York City flagship location.
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