Chad Horton and Fine Dining restaurant Group Owner Gavin fine didn’t set out to start an ice cream company. In fact, they set out to make high-quality, house-made, hand-packed ice cream in fanciful flavors to serve their Fine Dining Restaurant Group restaurants. As fate would have it, once their guests tasted the sweet treats, they started asking where they could buy a pint or container of sandwiches to take home with them. 

From a small space in the back of one of their restaurant kitchens in Jackson, production grew, leading chef Chad Horton to bring on more team members to simply keep up with demand for the frozen treats – team members whose entire job was (and continues to be) assembling ice cream sandwiches and packing pints. 

With two specialty stores in the Fine Dining family in which they could sell their products, the team started packaging out ice cream and ice cream sandwiches (crafted with milk and cream from regional farms), calling them Cream + Sugar, slapping a sticker on the container, and selling them to eager customers. Word made it around Jackson Hole, pretty soon they couldn’t keep the ice cream sandwiches on the shelves and the containers were sold as quickly as they were restocked. This sparked something in owner Gavin Fine’s mind. It was time to go big or go home. Featuring flavors like huckleberry, mint chip, salted caramel, classic vanilla and more.