Mission & Values

Be Smart

• Molly started the company as a sort of an experiment to see if she could run a for-profit company in a way that embodied her progressive values (health care for all, living wages, local and organic ingredients, everything should be compostable) and still make money. We think this is smart business, and the experiment has been working since 2008!

• We have baked many more smart, values-driven practices and policies into our business since our founding. Our childcare benefit ($1,000 per month toward child care for every child of an employee until kindergarten) has a 128% return on investment.

• Running the business with all stakeholders in mind (people, planet and profit) has kept us financially sustainable and led us to be recognized as one of the Best Places to Work and the Fastest Growing Companies by the Puget Sound Business Journal many times over the years.

Be Generous

• We give the greater of 10% of profits or 1% of sales to food banks, equity organizations, women and girl empowerment initiatives each year.

• We work hard to fight local hunger through food bank giving and our own nonprofit, the Anna Banana Milk Fund. Partnering with 10 different food banks near each of our 11 Molly Moon’s locations, the Milk Fund has raised over $600,000 since it launched in 2011.

• We provide free health insurance for employees and their dependent children to all employees who work a minimum of 20 hours a week.

• We offer childcare subsidies to all mooncrew parents and provide $1,000/month for each child under the age of 5 and $4,200/year for each child aged 5-12.

• We have a 401k and matching program to help our mooncrew save for their future.

Be Homemade

• Every scoop of fresh, homemade ice cream we serve is made in one of our kitchens in the back of our scoop shops.

• We employ a team of professional chefs to manage our 9 shop kitchens, working hands-on with our ice cream maker team to spin molly moon’s delicious homemade ice cream.

• We source 90% of our ingredients from the Pacific Northwest. Buying from farmers in our community keeps dollars in our local economy, and it cuts down on the amount of fossil fuels needed to transport ingredients to our Seattle kitchens. All of our ingredients are either local, organic, or fair trade, and many are two of the three.

• The main ingredient in our ice cream: hormone-free milk and cream, comes from a local farm in Ferndale, WA - Edaleen Dairy. This family-owned farm shares our values and puts sustainability at the forefront of its operations. To minimize their environmental impact, they utilize an anaerobic digester on their farm, turning cow waste into enough electricity to power 500+ homes in the area, enough liquid fertilizer to fertilize the entire farm where they grow most of the herd’s feed, and a sanitary mulch that becomes clean, cozy bedding for the cows.

Be Joyful

• Molly's philosophy is that every neighborhood deserves a joyful, multigenerational community gathering place where the shared love of ice cream brings people together.

• Our shops and work culture are intentionally built to be joyful places to work. The mooncrew play their own music, have each other’s backs, and know they have a career here if they want to grow with us.  And we all know that having fun is the best way to provide awesome hospitality to our neighbors and customers, allowing molly moon’s to grow and provide more life changing jobs in more neighborhoods!

Be Brave

• We fight for gender and race equity in the workplace with 100% pay transparency. Research has shown that pay transparency is one of the most effective ways a company can achieve pay equity. Every employee has full visibility into the wages of each member of the team. This visibility gives our mooncrew the knowledge and the power they need to better advocate for themselves in the workplace.