Another scoop? Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches is expanding its ice cream manufacturing in Richmond. The Richmond company is investing $5.8 million to move to a new facility in the city and expects ...

Nightingale’s sandwiches are made with 14% butterfat ice cream, ... Pollack created the sandwiches as a summer menu dessert at the now-shuttered Greenleaf's Pool Room in downtown Richmond.

When heiress and influencer Nicky Hilton Rothschild tasted a Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwich in the Hamptons, N.Y., and Instagram messaged the Richmond-based company saying she loved it, the owners ...

The new facility will occupy a 29,000-square-feet building on a five-acre site, originally built in 1983. Of the total space, the ice cream maker will allocate 24,000 square feet for production.

Back in 2019, Nightingale seemed like a quaint Richmond institution you’d be lucky to find at a specialty foods store, or in the cooler at your neighborhood brewery.

Nightingale produces its ice cream sandwiches in a 20,000-square-foot facility it leases from Hatch, a food-and-beverage incubator in South Richmond.

Here's what several Richmond-area food company founders have to sale about scaling. The people behind Joybells, Navy Hill and Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches participated in a Startup Virginia panel.