Presence

An anonymous tipster sent in word that there is a new Coldstone Creamery opening near Woodholme, and they are considering obtaining kosher certification.

For those of you unfamiliar with Coldstone, it's like Starbucks for ice cream; basically, they create an "experience" around something simple like an ice cream with toppings so they can charge you $3.50 for something that would be $2 at Baskin and Robbins. They have menu items, combinations of ice creams and toppings you can choose from, and their servers prepare your dish right before your eyes using these short, flat-headed, shovel-like scoopers. It's a bit unsettling to watch them massage your ice cream and toppings into a homogenous mush, but it is kind of tasty.

There is a kosher Coldstone in Norfolk, VA, we went there earlier this year. If you tip the servers, they will sing to you while they prepare your ice cream. After the people in front of us left a tip, I specifically didn't, so they wouldn't sing. It's not that I'm cheap (well, I am, but that's beside the point), it's just that I want all your attention focused on my ice cream.