Cold Stone Creamery is a national chain of stores that serves hand blended ice cream, ice cream cake, and other ice cream based treats. They are well known for letting each customer choose their own add-ins, which are then blended with one or more base ice cream flavors on a granite slab. This is done right when the customer orders the ice cream, so it’s fresh and made exactly to each customer’s specifications. They have a wide variety of base flavors and add ins ranging from fruit and candy to nuts and fresh cake. Cold Stone Creamery is a favorite of everyone from young children to grandparents.
When visiting a Cold Stone Creamery, each customer can make their own custom ice cream blend or choose from one of the many Cold Stone Signature Blends already mixed together. Each location may have it’s own special mix in ingredients, but all of them carry a variety of candy, fruit, nuts, and interesting ingredients like freshly baked cake or cookie bits. Seasonal ice cream flavors and special mix ins are also a great treat at Cold Stone, with holiday favorites like Pumpkin or Candy Cane ice cream appearing when the weather gets cold. Cold Stone also offers Italian style sorbets and frozen yogurt, as well as blended ice cream shakes, smoothies, and cakes. Even health conscious ice cream lovers can enjoy one of their low fat or no sugar added treats, or try one of their healthy smoothies.
The first Cold Stone Creamery was opened in 1988 by founders Donald and Susan Sutherland. Cold Stone was the first ice cream parlor to offer freshly made, custom blended ice cream mixes. The first store was located in Tempe, Arizona, but they soon began to spread and now have 1,400 locations, including Canada and the Caribbean. Picking up a special ice cream treat at a Cold Stone Creamery is also a special experience due to the unique training of the staff. Not only are they skilled at using special tools to blend each ice cream creation on the granite slab, they will sing a special song for anyone that puts a tip in the tip jar. This makes Cold Stone Creamery a great place to take the whole family.
Cold Stone coupons make their stores an even better experience. For the easiest way to save, sign up for their Birthday Club to receive a coupon for a free ice cream on your birthday. You can also sign up for their My Cold Stone Club, which delivers regular promotions and coupons to your email inbox. It’s also possible to find paper coupons in certain newspaper inserts or mail flyers, but this depends on your proximity to a participating store. The best way to find current Cold Stone coupons is to use a coupon website, which will let you print coupons or alert your to currently running promotions. Check to make sure your local store is participating in the promotion or accepting the coupon, as not all of them do.