Will Cold Stone Creamery be adding Pepper Spray Swirl as a new flavor? Or Tazerberry? Will MACE be the newest mix-in?
Reader IllvilleMama jokingly suggested the Pepper Spray Swirl flavor in comments following the story of a fired Cold Stone Creamery employee so loyal that his hands had to be pried from the counter and […]
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…this “golden child” of the ice cream industry continues to go undetected in their ruthless business practices, their flawed business model and their total disregard for the profitability of the franchisee.
If you are thinking about buying a [Cold Stone Creamery] franchise - DON’T DO IT!!!
J.B. Montgomery, ex-franchisee, from his Cold Stone Creamery complaint […]
(Franchise Pick Franchise Blog) Things have gotten chilly for Cold Stone Creamery. It started with Richard Gibson’s The Inside Scoop article in the Wall Street Journal:
Earlier in this decade, Cold Stone Creamery was one of the hottest franchises around. The super-premium ice-cream stores attracted scores of franchisees hungry for a piece of […]
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Spring may be warming up for some, but 3 out of the 5 Cold Stone Creamery franchises have gone cold and stiff in the past year.
Melissa Cassutt of the Colorado Springs Gazette […]
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How ‘Bout a Stone Cold Bowl of Reality?
In his comment left last night on my post Cold Stone Creamery Franchise: Hell Hath no Fury Like a Franchisee Scorned, unhappy Cold Stone Creamery franchise owner Cecil Rolle states:
a recent review of Cold Stone’s website indicated […]
(FranchisePick.Com) In franchising, the Internet has changed everything. It used to be that angry franchise owners just went away quietly. Even those who sued the franchisor did not get the added leverage of press coverage.
But franchisors beware; these days vengeful franchisees spread the word across the Internet… which also happens to be where […]
(FranchisePick.Com) Is the Cold Stone Creamery’s franchise bowl half-empty or half-full? Amidst rumors of internal problems and a third round of layoffs at franchise amalgam Kahala Cold Stone, here’s the latest attempt at making their concepts work: sticking a couple of them together. Who knows? […]
Last week, in response to Kahala Cold Stone’s acquisition of the fledgling Cereality Cereal Cafe chain, I asked Can Kahala Cold Stone Put Some Reality in Cereality? The answer was swift and clear.
In “Cereality Growth Begins By Shutting Two of Seven Stores,” Restaurants & Institutions magazine’s Derek Gayle writes that:
On acquiring the […]
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Can you tell the difference between REALITY, SURREALITY and CEREALITY?
Cereality: Cereality is what you see in this screenshot from the Cereality Cereal Cafe franchise website: a fun and wildly successful restaurant concept that is, as USA Today stated, so absurdly simple it can’t fail. The homepage photo above showcases the concept: the […]
We had to read it a couple of times, too. A Nation’s Restaurant News story, entitled Cold Stone to franchise barbershop concept, reports that Cold Stone Creamery will begin offering V’s Barbershop franchises:
SCOTTSDALE , Ariz. (Apr. 5) Cold Stone Creamery, the fast-growing mix-in ice cream chain, said it has entered into an agreement to […]
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