you guys rock

- submitted by icecreamexpert on 02/06/2007

i've been saying for years cold stone is overrated. a total rip off. rock on, burbia!

kaopectate is a bit strong.

- submitted by creamgal on 02/06/2007

kaopectate is a bit strong. but i know what you mean about the french vanilla. chocolate is good and so is coffee.

i love ben & jerry the most. cold stone is not even close.

steve's ice cream

- submitted by cambridgeguy on 02/06/2007

smashing heath bars in ice cream. oreos. etc. this is not original. steve's ice cream in cambridge-somerville-medford, ma was doing this in the 70s and it was fantastic.

cold stone is a fraud. decorate ice cream that's bad. not an effective product line.

steve's ice cream. there's

- submitted by harvardrelic on 02/06/2007

steve's ice cream. there's something i'd forgotten for decades.

the best ice cream i've ever had! may have helped that i usually had 'munchies' eating it. but absolutely great stuff.

anybody remember tech hi-fi, in cambridge?

cold stone is going cold

- submitted by jason11 on 02/06/2007

cold stone is going cold dead. remember frujan gladje (sp??) exactly. krispe cream. add cold stone to the list of disappearing

favorite ice cream: ben &

- submitted by jeff on 02/06/2007

favorite ice cream:

ben & jerrys haagen daaz dairy queen good humor - chocolate eclairs!

cold stone -- way way overrated, agree.

tom carvel is my hero! where

- submitted by jackie on 02/06/2007

tom carvel is my hero!

where are those porpoise cakes when we need them. i need them now.

we got a cold stone nearby. it was crowded at first. now pretty empty. too expensive.

there's a cold cream place

- submitted by Anonymous on 02/06/2007

there's a cold cream place right in the middle of our downtown. near chicago.

also think it's overrated. and othe5rs agree, because there's almost no one ever in it.

tom carvel is cool. his tv commercials in the day were awesome.

i'm waiting for our cold

- submitted by deb on 02/06/2007

i'm waiting for our cold stone to start selling books and cds. like our good friend starbucks.

that's when we'll know it's over.

to me, cold stone is like an expensive olive garden for ice cream. bad news.

i remember tech hi fi! they

- submitted by jerr on 02/06/2007

i remember tech hi fi! they were cool, mit guys who started it. chains in ny nj ct areas, maybe elsewhere. the sales guys were hip to music, looked at the equipment as like art, hi tech art. they knew their s**t.

very very cool store, when it was still new for everyday people to have ripping stereo equipment.

now it's circuit city, best buy. like cold stone. generic, mall scene, predictable.

tom carvel for pres

- submitted by cantel on 02/06/2007

or is he dead? he must be, right?

he made crazy eddy look polished. anybody remember crazy eddy? or uncle steve?

uncle steve was king. lower

- submitted by cal on 02/06/2007

uncle steve was king. lower east side manhattan, canal street.

cold stone sucks. i've tried the vanilla. it's true. awful. give me haagen daaz, that's it. coffee with chocolate, the best.

the tech hi fi guys grew up

- submitted by stereogirl on 02/06/2007

the tech hi fi guys grew up in my town in nj. 1 did. he went to mit. he was brilliant. oh so cool.

as for ice cream. i think cold stone tastes good. but it's grossly overpriced.

a cold stone moved into our

- submitted by janetfromvirginia on 02/06/2007

a cold stone moved into our town not too long ago. it pushed out a diner that was great. the absolutely best blueberry pancakes.

8$ for an ice cream is insane. the vanilla tastes like cream, it's too rich for me. i wish there was a ben and jerrys nearby. agree there's is the best

we refuse to go to cold

- submitted by msicecream on 02/06/2007

we refuse to go to cold stone in our town. just too expensive for nothing special desert.

we had a perfectly ok baskin robbins which moved out when cold stone moved in.

gee, crushed oreos in ice cream. how novel.

i'd rather have a starbucks. at least their coffee is strong.

yea, get lost cold stone,

- submitted by moveit on 02/06/2007

yea, get lost cold stone, and take starbucks and pottery barn with you.

long live dunkin donuts!

i love cold stone, don't

- submitted by idiotsdelight on 02/07/2007

i love cold stone, don't know what anybody's talking about.

chocolate is amazing. try it again, and stop complaining, or you'll end up with 99% air dairy queen in your town.

whatever happend to

- submitted by Anonymous on 02/07/2007

whatever happend to ihops?

what about friendlies?

cold stone, designer fake cafes, suck. i want that, i go to pottery barn cafe in my mall.

Coldstone Awesome

- submitted by phil on 07/20/2007

We just got a Cold Stone ("hey I've heard of that..You Have?...Nooooo (spongbob/patrick on "Opposite day")). Cmon, you really can't beat some numbnut smashing warm ice-cream on a steel plate(ohh that's a cold plate to make it cold), then mashing in some sprinkles, then mooshing the glob into a cup or cone,and to add insult to injury the whole staff might sing a stupid song to get you over the top before they tell to fork over the dough. The most bizarre part comes after when you are standing around staring at one another(especially guys), and thinking how stupid we look eating $7 ice cream (melting rapidly)cones.

Too Expensive

- submitted by Anonymous on 01/25/2008

Too damn expensive! It's just ice cream.

I used to work there :(

- submitted by Anonymous on 04/09/2008

Cold stone is vastly overrated. The ice cream is too expensive and they treat their employees like scum. When I worked there we had an evil manager that would make Stalin tremble in fear. Needless to say I got canned after venting off on customers about how I was tired of the cheesines of the whole business, how I was forced to walk on eggshells when the manager and owner were around, and finally how expensive the ice cream was. I need a ben & jerry's now.

Agree, Cold Stone's ice

- submitted by Anonymous on 04/25/2008

Agree, Cold Stone's ice cream isn't very good and is extremely overated. The customer service is awful; the lady overcharged me and it took her 5 minutes to realize what she did. She also refused to take a valid coupon until she finally realized it was a good coupon! I'm not going back.....

finally some people who hate it just as much as I do!

- submitted by Anonymous on 06/13/2008

I won't repeat what everyone has been saying, (icecream sucks blahlah), but what I want to point out is that every coldstone I've been to has had a wife and a husband owner, just like the creators.. coincidence? I think not. I do believe that the original creators have set up some top secret lab in the mojave desert that produces husband and wife androids that will be jolly, business-oriented coldstone owners. and let me tell you, those are the WORST people to be owning a business. my managers (ahem, HUSBAND AND WIFE OF COURSE) where the most bizzare thing I've ever had to deal with. the guy usually ran the store because the wife was a complete moron. I felt like I was constantly walking on eggshells when he came in, because god forbid if I overportioned that icecream!! he even intimidated the customers! he would purposely not listen to what size they wanted, then say, 'you said love it, right?' when really the customer said like it, because they know the icecream is expensive and terrible for you. then of course he'd trick the kids into getting a waffle cone or bowl and then the parents would say, "ohh tommy I didn't say you could have that!" and then he'd say he can't remake the icecream, thus leaving the customer with a $16 total for 2 icecreams. THEN, as if he hadn't harassed them enough, he'll stare at the tip jar until he felt he sufficiently intimidated them enough for them to tip him. then came the singing..I won't even start. it was a nightmare. and the assault didn't stop there! he would then come over and ask how the awkward, melted icecream was! then offer another icecream (why, yes, I'd LOVE to spend another $8 on your shitty icecream!) the customers of course lied through their teeth and said it was just fantastic. as if he wasn't enough to deal with, his 1-brain-celled wife was in charge of scheduling. now usually her inability to ever say no was an advantage because you could totally manipulate her and make her give you more hours, but that always came and bit me in the ass when I told her I COULD NOT WORK BEFORE 5. apparently she didn't fucking speak english because she continued to schedule me at 4 for weeks on end. after several emails explaining to her I couldn't work those hours, I finally sent her a final email: "as I have said before, I cannot work before FIVE. thanks." of course, she calls me the next day asking why I had "yelled" at her in the email, and asked why I was mad. oh, I don't know! maybe because I had to bust my ass to get out there at 4 when my school gets off at 3 and it takes atleast 30 min to get out of the damn parkinglot. of course, I gave in and said "oohh I'm not mad teehee" and continued to work the hours. may I mention that almost all of those shifts were fundraisers? yeah, line out the fucking door. I never understood why people wanted icecream that bad?! I'd have just left and gone over to silkys. custard definitely owns shitty coldstone icecream any day. and if that wasn't enough, coldstone seemed to attract a lot of idiots because even though our sign stops lighting up and the doors say 'we close at 9', people would walk in anyway, and of course we couldn't let $$$ go. then they'd get to the cash register and be like ohhh gee you guys closed at 9! hahaha. yeah, that was my breaking point. so after everyone cleared out an hr after closing, we STILL had to clean up and close the store. yes, getting home at 11 on a school night is just fantastic. and of course people say, oh well. atleast you get more tips! yeah, except when they schedule 10 people to a shift and what could have been $20 in tips turns into $2. so after a while I just began "shutting down" and didn't smile , and all that coldstone blasphemy. so one day, after busting my ass to get to work, the manager calls. "you don't have to work today, go home". fuck that, I need hours, YOU scheduled me, I'm staying. then she did it again. I was starting to begin to think I was being fired, whatever. so one night I decided I'd take a shift for a friend because she was busy, and of course the manager calls and says NOO you can't work! again, nothing about me being fired. I ask why, and she asks to call later. I called like a week later and, what do you know, she's still holding that grudge (of me "harassing" her online). oh brother. then she tries to make it seem like she's not firing me, but I want to leave. no shit I want to leave!! but I need a job. then she's like "there were some things said at work that were inappropriate, and you haven't been smiling". that was what pushed me over the edge. how the hell would she know that? yes, she DOES sit in the parkinglot in her little minivan and watch us but I didn't know she has any listening devices. she then informed me that they have "friends" who frequently visit the store and comment on our work ethic. so, basically they have spies. great. no pressure at all. she wouldn't ever tell me what was "said" that was inappropriate, which I think is unfair, because I hardly talked to my employees because they were all a bunch of jesus loving thespian freaks with ADD. instead of commenting on what I said, she ended the conversation with "I pray for you everyday, a I don't like your life choices. I hope you know what your choices are doing to you." OKAY?!? I'm guessing they somehow figured out that I came to work stoned just about every day (how else would I have dealt with screaming kids?) but whatever. to this day, I still wasn't technically fired. she never said they were letting me go, she just "convieniently" stopped scheduling me.

so there you have it, coldstone=satan.

oh, and for you people who still think its "fresh", that shit sits in the freezer for 30 days.

I went there one time and

- submitted by Anonymous on 06/18/2008

I went there one time and bought ice cream for my wife and I got a milkshake. When the bill came to 11$, I gritted my teeth and paid it. I never went back. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. For 11$ I could have 3 pints of Haagen Dazs.

xunna

fake whipped cream

- submitted by Anonymous on 06/27/2008

Cold Stone Creamery uses it!Unbelieveable on a $6.00 sundae

fake whipped cream

- submitted by Anonymous on 06/27/2008

Cold Stone Creamery uses it!Unbelieveable on a $6.00 sundae

Overrated and expensive

- submitted by Anonymous on 07/15/2008

2 ice cream for $12 wow.... Sorbetero ice cream taste way better

Cold Stone

- submitted by Anonymous on 08/02/2008

You guys sound like SCUM of the earth. so freaking poor that you can't enjoy the finer things in life like Cold Stone Ice Cream where else can you idiots go and get 3 kind of chocolates at one location. Get a life and die

Hey Cold Stone...FUCK YOU

- submitted by Anonymous on 09/05/2008

Hey Cold Stone...FUCK YOU and YOUR SHITTY ICE CREAM. IT FUCKING SUCKS, MORON.

WHERE ELSE? HOW ABOUT THE GROCERY STORE? I CAN MIX IT MYSELF AND STILL IT'S CHEAPER AND BETTER, IDIOT.

I Hope I can meet you Cold Stone...

i will never go back

- submitted by cold stoned on 09/07/2008

made a visit to cold stone near st. louis back in 2004 - the girlfriend had a coupon that required me to take vanilla (since they were out of chocolate) and make a choice from toppings i didn't want or care for - i couldn't make a selection and the pressure mounted, so i bailed - she was unable to use the coupon and blew up - i apologized but it was for naught - the girlfriend split not long after that and i haven't been back to that lousy eatery since - give me ben and jerry's or dove chocolate any day - oh, and one more thing, ted drewe's is overrated too!

Fuck it...

- submitted by Worker who got fired today... on 11/15/2008

I spent my whole high school carrer in that bitch making ice cream. Its over-rated, expensive, and untrustworthy. I worked my ass off got a promotion and made one fucking mistake. Fuck coldstone... fuck it... fuck it... fuck it... and fuck it... Btw half the stuff made out of the ice cream is shitty... lol i still have the key i should rob the place...

you people are crazy

- submitted by annon on 04/02/2009

I have worked for coldstone for the past 5 years and been a store manager for the past 3. It is one amazing company to work for; sure anyone can go to the grocery store and get the usual ben and jerrys that was made 6 months ago. but there are not really other places that offer the highest quality ice cream there is. We have striven to become the Ultimate Ice Cream extperience, and on jan. 1st we surpassed that goal. We constantly are adding new item to our menu, and its true that we are a little pricey. But Coldstone is geared towards the less money conscious in our society. The store that i work for constantly does a tremendous amount in sales each week. But i mean, to each he own.

LOL!!!!

- submitted by Anonymous on 07/01/2009

I love the people who complain about the prices. But you're all the fat asses who get a million mix-ins and then light up like a xmas tree when we say a medium ice cream (dairys not cheap) with 4 mixins is over 5. The menus right in front of you. A Large ice cream with nothing mixed in, is around the same price as a like it Signature creation. Yay america!! You're all fat!!

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Greedy coldstone! Lower prices or shut your doors

- submitted by Jorge Latino on 08/11/2009

Who the h*ll do these people think they are? In a struggling economy and frequent job losses, they expect people to dish out $5+ on a stupid ice cream cone! Just cause they mash a hersheys bar into a scoop of ice cream? Big whoop! I can do that myself and pocket the $5. The owners are greedy and are lovin' it that people are goin broke on their 'signature' ice cream. Signature my foot! Go to dairy queen and get a blizzard with reeses cups in it that will satisfy your craving and not empty your wallet. The CEO of damn coldstone ice cream has a cold heart and a fat wallet and until we all stop going and stuffing his account, he's going to profit on the fools that continue to buy coldstone phony crap cream!!

I'll be working at coldstone forever

- submitted by Pimp Daddy on 08/11/2009

I am 20 years old and got. A job at coldsone ice cream company. I work there all the time to serve our fat pig customers who don't tip when they buy ice cream. I don't like the people that cone into coldstone and I hope they fire me cause I'm sick of working and want to sleep all day instead of work for a company that only cares about profit than what their employees want out of their job! Thanks for nothing coldstone!!!

The better 2-for-1 deal

- submitted by Smarter on 08/17/2009

Even without a coupon, it's cheaper to split something with your partner.

A "gotta have it" (large, in English) is only a dollar more than a "like it" (small). We do that, and then it's equivalent to the same price we pay for our own two-scoops at a local ice creamery.

But, we do it about every other month at most only because it's in a Tim Horton's we've already had a soup and sandwich at.

The CSC chain clearly won't last, as it has the high franchise failure rate; the bad press that goes along with it; has stupid sizing (a la Starbucks) thinking it's "cute"; the singing is insipid; and the clanging of the scoops is unappetizing in general.

I can't fathom why the powers that be at Tim Horton's (those with all the Wendy's experience) would have picked up this CSC business... unless they're planning to take the whole thing over when it starts to fail. Guess they haven't been paying attention much to the Baskin Robbins/Dunkin' Donuts stores high failure rate.

The idea of having a "late afternoon and evening" business to go along with Horton's primarily morning business makes sense... but they should have done this by expanding their *food* offerings... not adding CSC...

COld Stone gets a cut.

- submitted by Terry on 09/12/2009

Right now Cold Stone here in Indy is doing the Make A Wish Campaign. You donate money and you get a 3 oz sample, but here is the kicker. Cold Stone estimates 85% of all donations collected in September will benefit the Make A Wish Foundation. (Actual Wording) So Cold Stone takes a cut before they give whats left to the foundation? My wife and I went once, but after this never again.

Stop Hating

- submitted by coldstone shithead on 09/27/2009

YOU BROKE ASS PIGS STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT ALL THE DAMN PRICES, COLDSTONE IS LIKE THE STARBUCKS OF ICE CREAM SO IF YOU'RE A BROKE ASS DON'T COME THERE. EASY AS THAT, NOW I ALSO WANT ANYYBODY TO TELL ME WHOOOOO ELSE IN THE WORLD MAKES HARD ICE CREAM INSIDE THEIR PREMISES? NO BODDDDDYY!!!! booOOOOOOOOOOO WE ROCK, SO ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT SAY BEN & jERRRY'S HERSHEYS AND BLA BLA CAN KISS MY FAT COLDSTONE ASS!!! AND LICK MY FRESH MADE WAFFLE CONES!!!!!!!! WHILE I SHIT OUT SPRINKLES.

fuck dese niggas

- submitted by shift leader on 09/27/2009

IF YOU DONT LIKE DA PRICES AT COLD STONE THEN WHY DOES YOUR FFAT ASS ORDER THE MOST EXPENSIVE SHIT. YES YOU GET A LIKE IT BUT YOU PUT FIFTY THOUSAND MIX-INS IN IT YOU DUMB FUCKS. IT COST MORE FOR EACH EXTRA MIX IN IF YOU CREATE YOUR OWN. SO IF YOU WANT CHEAP, CRAPPY, AND FAKE ICE CREAM.. THEN GO TO DAIRY QUEEN AND GET THAT SOFT SERVED SHIT WHICH MELTS 2 SECONDS AFTER YOU GET IT AND TASTE LIKE STRAIGHT UP WHIPPED CREAM. AND THAT BLIZZARD SHIT IS JUST MAKING THE ICE CREAM STICK TO THE CUP AND WE CAN DO THAT TOO SO FUCK BLIZZARDS, FUCK DAIRY QUEEN, AND FUCK YOU CHEAP FAT FUCKS!!!!!!!

mmm wafflecones

- submitted by Anonymous on 10/22/2009

mmm wafflecones

It all depends on the Owner.

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/08/2009

It all depends on the Owner. I will say it is overpriced that is for sure.

However the owner at our local one is a nice guy and as we have been going there from day one (only place to get ice cream here other then the store) will sell us 2 quarts for $9.00...I need no coupon he just doe sit because well he wants us to come back.

However last time we went I will say the kids now he has working there suck. I guess what should I expect they have no authority, and afraid to make a call on their own, I guess I can not blame them.

The Wife & I got two kid sizes, more then enough ice cream for us. The one kid got my wifes without batting an eye. Then when I ordered the girl said, "you know we are not suppose to give adults kid sizes". This is new to me I told her. I then said William (thats the owners name) has had no problem whatsoever with doing it and if you got a problem take it up with him. She says, well I'm just letting you know...and I looked at her and said, I'm just letting YOU KNOW.

Yeah, we have not been back actually...and I was stopping in ever other week to get 2 quarts. When I do go back, and the owner is there I might bring it up with him, he knows I ran a business before and we always chat it up when we see him. I'm sure he will like the input.

What I advise everyone to do, if they go and have a problem do not take it up with the kid, ask to speak to the owner. If the owner is not in, ask when they will be in. If you do not give a business feedback how are they to improve if they do not know there is a problem. However complaining about taste issues is silly...everyone likes different taste. Complaining about the price is stupid, you know it is an upscale specialty shop, and the prices are on the menu. You got legs walk out if you do not like it or can afford it...I have walked out of plenty of places in my life after seeing the menu. You are not obligated to stay.

One more thing maybe I did

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/08/2009

One more thing maybe I did not stress.

No one makes you spend money at CSC, if you are going broke eating there; you got some serious problems in life. Again no one forces you to go there, and no one forces you to buy something. That is like complaining that Macy's charges too much for clothing, or that Whole Foods is causing you to go broke...LOL

Then again this is what America has come to, whiners that want something for nothing. I'm going to guess the same fellow probably drives a $30K vehicle that he had to finance or lease while only bringing home $60K a year. He probably also wears clothes he can not afford, and has a credit card debt so high because he HAS TO KEEP UP WITH THE JONES to make it look like he is someone he is not.

By the way, I am not pro CSC...I prefer Ben & Jerry's. CSC just happens to be our only local ice cream shop.