The Gelato Lab was featured in Community Impact — here's what it means to us and the story behind the shop.
A few days ago, Community Impact — Round Rock's most-read local publication — published a feature on The Gelato Lab. And honestly? We're still processing it.
Not because we didn't work hard for it. We did. But because when you're heads-down every day making gelato from scratch, answering DMs, restocking cups, and figuring out payroll — you don't always stop to see how far you've come.
This article made us stop.
👉 Read the full Community Impact feature here
My wife Andrea and I didn't open The Gelato Lab because it was a safe business decision. We opened it because we genuinely believe that dessert — real dessert, made with real ingredients — has the power to bring people together.
We relocated to Round Rock from Australia, and from the very beginning, we fell in love with this community. The families, the energy, the way people actually show up for local businesses. We wanted to be a part of that. We wanted to be the place where you bring your kids after a game at Old Settlers Park, where you celebrate a birthday without it feeling like a chain restaurant, where you can grab a scoop and just... breathe.
So we built The Gelato Lab around that idea. Not around trends, not around what's easy — around what's real.
We say it on our website: Not ice cream. Real gelato. And we mean it.
Gelato isn't just a fancier word for ice cream. It's a completely different product — slower churned, denser, served warmer, and made with less air and less fat. That's why the flavor hits differently. That's why you can taste our Rainforest Chocolate and immediately know it came from an actual cacao source in Ecuador, not a flavoring bottle.
Here's what we don't do:
Here's what we do every single day:
We're not a franchise. There's no corporate playbook we're following. Every decision — every flavor, every ingredient, every scoop — goes through us.
Being covered by Community Impact isn't just a nice moment for our Instagram. It's validation that Round Rock sees us the way we hoped they would — as a real part of this community, not just another shop in a strip center.
The journalist who visited us talked to Andres, saw the shop, understood the story. That doesn't happen with a chain. You can't franchise that kind of authenticity.
And to every customer who has walked through our door, tagged us in a photo, left a review, or told a friend — this feature is as much yours as it is ours. You're the reason a reporter showed up. You're the reason we're still here making gelato every morning.
If you've never been to The Gelato Lab, there's no better time than now.
We're located at 1500 S A.W. Grimes Blvd, Suite 160, Round Rock, TX 78664 — right behind the Clay Madsen Recreation Center, minutes from Old Settlers Park and Dell Diamond.
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Round Rock, thank you for making this possible. We're just getting started. 🍨
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