How does an ice cream brand, launched from the trunk of a car during a global pandemic, become one of the hottest culinary tickets in a major city?
In this incredible episode of the JUSTIN AND THE [FOOD] ENTREPRENEURS Show, host Justin Bizzarro sits down with David Right, the innovative founder of Denver’s acclaimed Right Cream. This is a powerful story about perseverance, radical creativity, and how a moment of career uncertainty can become the catalyst for building the business of your dreams.
David shares his unconventional journey from a successful but unfulfilling career in software sales to the world of food. He recounts the pivotal moment in early 2020 when he was laid off just two weeks before the global lockdown. With an unexpected surplus of time, a lifelong passion for cooking, and a deep appreciation for culinary storytellers like Anthony Bourdain, David began making ice cream. What started as a creative outlet quickly became a clandestine operation, selling pints to friends and followers out of his car in grocery store parking lots.
Discover the hustle and ingenuity that took Right Cream from a trunk-based side gig to a local phenomenon. David details the challenges of those early days and the game-changing moment when a local magazine feature turned his small-batch operation into a full-time, must-have brand overnight. He offers a raw and honest look at the trials and tribulations that followed—navigating leases, sharing kitchens, and the immense pressure of scaling a business that grew faster than he could have ever imagined.
This episode is a masterclass in evolution and listening to your customers. David explains his brilliant strategic move to expand beyond ice cream, adding hot food like his now-famous smash burgers, breakfast sandwiches, and fried fish. It was a way to solve a business problem—how to get customers to show up more than once a week—that simultaneously unlocked a new level of culinary creativity, culminating in exclusive, multi-course tasting dinners served at his 800-square-foot ice cream shop.
This is a story about the power of trusting your team, delegating responsibility, and having the courage to evolve. For any entrepreneur who has ever felt stuck or feared taking a leap of faith, David Right’s journey is an unmissable testament to the fact that with enough passion and persistence, you can build a thriving, authentic, and utterly unique business against all odds.
IG: @rightcream
Address: www.rightcream.com
Location: 2423 S Downing St, Denver, CO 80210
Entrepreneur interested in being on the show: https://calendly.com/justin-bizzarro/podcast
Hosted By: Justin Ryan Bizzarro (IG: @justinbizzarro and LinkedIn: FOLLOW ME )
Who is Justin Ryan Bizzarro? – Justin Bizzarro is a serial food, restaurant, technology, media and marketing entrepreneur, who helped build a 24-year-old group of food and restaurant related businesses, he created with his father and business partners out of his family’s basement, in 1998. He is a highly desired business management, personal and athlete growth, free market, food diversity, and entrepreneurial leadership speaker. Justin’s expertise are in human growth, motivation, leadership and management development, health foods and beverages, global lean manufacturing facilities, vertically integrating businesses, food marketing and advertising, supply chain creation and management, direct to consumer fulfillment, transportation and distribution, personal brand building, restaurant development and construction, and entrepreneur acceleration. Justin received his BA in International Business and Management from Dickinson College, in 2002, and his MBA from University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, in 2014. He is currently pursuing his Master of Divinity in Leadership from Denver Seminary. His leadership and entrepreneur podcasts have positively impacted millions of people across the globe.
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