Haven't been here in 2 years. There's so many ice cream places around the competition has kept us away. Not to mention customer service is usually "eh" here. We came here today (6-11-25) because I wanted an ice cream I only get custom from cold stone, and apparently sign says "under new management" but it's an old sign so I'm not sure how long ago new management changed. Anyways, there were three workers on clock. Two of them were servicing customers. Those two people, (Asian female/ Hispanic male) I'm sorry to describe them this way I do not know their names and was too irritated to get them after our experience. But, both seemed irritated to help us or let us try a couple samples of their new flavors. Mangonado with Tajin and Oreo birthday cake. My family of 6 and I shared 2 samples because the annoyance was obvious on their end from the time we walked in, so we didn't bother asking for more than one sample of each.
At this point my teenager agreed to getting a flavor she didn't want because she didn't want to bother them to change a flavor. Both of her parents being bartenders and servers she understands customer service as well as being a gracious customer. Before leaving I could see it wasn't the flavor she wanted, based on being afraid to ask for the sample of the one she wanted. The two workers made us feel unwelcome. Before leaving, I ended up buying another ice cream for her, since she told me before we left she didn't really want the flavor she got. That annoyed me because they didn't deserve me to patron with more of my money.
I normally get for myself a specific custom flavor from there, that I've been getting for years, which was why I made the trip here after two years, but was not in the mood to order my personalized flavor. The customer service was awful. They were rushing us to order asking what else we wanted every ten seconds while they saw us still looking at the flavors and menu. I, in fact didn't get mixins today on our ice creams because I was not trying to make them work harder or give better customer service than they intended to. My kids were uncomfortable being in there. As a person who works in the service industry, this was one time I did not decide to tip. If it's hard to do your job, maybe look for a different line of work. Cold stone is literally supposed to be an experience, compared to other ice cream shops, and we had a bad very bad one. Giving zero stars is more accurate of a rating. So annoyed I didn't take pictures like I normally do for my reviews. The owner or GM should be aware but doubtful they pay attention to these reviews. read more