The news comes eight months after the company's executive chairman, Marcus Lemonis, declared it would not open or operate retail stores in California.
The new site for the Philadelphia-style Italian ice shop at Downtown Disney is a graduation of sorts for founder Lemeir Mitchell, who began the business inside an ice cream truck in 2017.
Having spent years learning film production at Boston University, Newport Beach’s Owen Logan set out last year to apply the fundamentals in a new way. The result, “Mother of Exiles” surprised him.
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