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| | Franchisees are just screaming to have Cold Stone ice cream |
 | | Cold Stone, one of the nation's fastest-growing franchise operations, now occupies a two-story, 67,000-square-foot building that houses the test kitchen, a full-scale Cold Stone ice cream shop and training classrooms for the franchisees. |
 | | Cold Stone, founded in Tempe by Donald and Susan Sutherland in 1988, outgrew 20,000 square feet of office space in five Scottsdale Airpark buildings, including one noisy office just west of the airport runway. |
 | | Cold Stone, which aims to be the best-selling ice cream brand by the end of the decade, is expanding like an ice cream lovers' waistline. |
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