May 24, 2012

Cold Stone Creamery

Cold Stone Creamery Presents "Hot For Cookie"

Cold Stone Creamery will offer a limited time addition, Hot for Cookie, to their Hot Stone Warm and Delicious plated dessert line beginning January 18.

 

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DTT Partners With Cold Stone Franchisee Four Dips

DTT Surveillance announced an exclusive surveillance partnership with Cold Stone Creamery franchisee, Four Dips, LLC. 

The installations at all Wisconsin-based Four Dips restaurants were recently completed, concluding the enterprise-wide rollout of DTT’s loss prevention...

Cold Stone Launches OLO Mobile Ordering

Today, OLO Online Ordering announced the newest user of its powerful mobile ordering platform, www.coldstonecakes.mobi. Created for super-premium ice cream brand...

Cold Stone Adds Midnight Delight to Holiday Season

Cold Stone Creamery is bringing out The Caramel Turtle Treat Ice Cream Pie this holiday season, combining the fan favorite Sweet Cream Ice Cream with pecans, caramel, and rich fudge in a Graham Cracker Pie Crust - all covered in fluffy white frosting. It’s sure to delight!

Fruit Blooms on Menus
September 2011

As consumers increasingly seek healthy, great-tasting food, it seems that more chefs and restaurant operators are looking to fruit as a perfect ingredient for menu items.

The health benefits are obvious. Most fruit is low in fat, sodium, and calories; full of vitamins and minerals; and...

Cold Stone Fro-Yo Going National

Cold Stone Creamery announced that it is rolling out its new frozen yogurt offering to all locations nationwide.

The frozen yogurt, which launched in select locations in January, will be available alongside the chain’s signature ice cream for customers to choose when customizing...

New Summer Flavors Popping Up at Cold Stone

Cold Stone Creamery’s Tastemaster is unveiling four new innovative ice cream flavors as part of the Gold Cone Collection. Throughout the prime ice cream season, Cold Stone Creamery locations will add these unique flavors and new ice cream creations into the line-up of indulgent treats....

Have Your Cold Stone Cake and Eat It Too, Through New Site

Cold Stone Creamery is launching ColdStoneCakes.com, a new online cake ordering website. Cold Stone’s Ice Cream Cakes feature layers of cake and ice cream, topped with fudge ganache or white frosting....

Singapore, Greece, Brazil Signed Up for Cold Stone

Cold Stone Creamery kicked off 2011 with an aggressive international growth plan, signing three new partners in three new countries. The brand and its parent company, Kahala, have entered into franchising agreements with three partners to deliver the ice cream experience into these new regions...

For New Product, Cold Stone Ditches Bowls, Cones

Cold Stone Creamery, known for premium customizable ice cream Creations, is adding a new line of treats in locations nationwide—the Plated Desserts line. Debuting at an introductory price of $4.99, the Plated Desserts line combines classic indulgences, such as brownies, churros, and funnel...

Cold Stone, Jelly Belly Renew Jelly Bean Partnership

Cold Stone Creamery announced a three-year extension to its successful licensing partnership with Jelly Belly Candy Company. The partnership will continue to make the premium Cold Stone Creamery Jelly Belly jelly beans available at a growing number of retail locations nationwide, as well as...

4 a Key Number for Cold Stone

Cold Stone Creamery president Dan Beem will tell you that 2010 treated the company pretty well.

“We had our best October in about four years,” he says. “If you look at our year overall, we’re trending much better than the industry.”

In an attempt to...

Cold Stone Jumps On Fro-Yo Bandwagon

Cold Stone Creamery announced the launch of the Cold Stone Yogurt Bar, a new yogurt concept that will be incorporated into existing Cold Stone stores in 2011. The brand extension will feature a proprietary self-serve weigh-and-pay frozen yogurt with a full toppings bar to offer a fully...

The Season of Giving Spreads to Facebook

It’s the season of giving, and some brands are letting their customers take giving to the digital environment they spend so much time in—Facebook.

First Data announced that four quick-serve brands—Boston Market, Burger King, Culver’s, and Cold Stone Creamery—...

Starbucks Twice as Good as McDonald's in Media Impact

Media measurement technology firm General Sentiment released its newest brand analysis, the Fall 2010 Fast Food Industry Report. The report highlights the brands that made the most significant media impact online between September and November. Despite declining nearly 20 percent since the...

The 30-Day Challenge
September 2010
Cold Stone Creamery Wants to Let Them Eat Cake
Eight-layered ice cream cakes aim to elevate sweet holiday treats to new levels.
Cold Stone, Make a Wish Team Up for Kate's Creation
Ice cream chain pairs with Make-A-Wish Foundation to raise money, help Florida girl become the Cold Stone Tastemaster.
Blister Packs are Overrated
August 2010

Back in the fall of 2007, I took the liberty in this space of calling for quick-serve operators to consider consigning standard-issue, blister-pack condiments to history’s dustbin.

The basis for this potentially unpopular position lay in my belief that while chains of all types had...

While on Facebook, Send a Cold Stone Gift
For those using social media more and more, the ice cream chain offers its eGift program to send a gift via Facebook or e-mail.