Pros
- TIPS, TIPS, TIPS! - If you're with a good crew mixing ice cream and singing songs, and generally just having a good time behind the stone, you'll get tips! I would probably walk away with around $18 - $22 in tips alone during a 6-hour shift on a Friday, Saturday. Sundays I generally made around $10 - $12 and the weekdays I made about $5 - $10. You do split the tips, so the more people you have working usually means the less you'll take home in tip money; UNLESS, you just get scheduled with an All-Star crew and you kill the tip game! This Coldstone in Fort Wayne is really in a prime location being in Jefferson Pointe's shopping center, within walking distance from the most popular movie theater in the city! It's also in a fairly affluent area so the tips coming in are paper, not coins. - THE PEOPLE - You'll meet some pretty stellar people working at Coldstone. There's only one in Fort Wayne, so it's a close group. People come and go, but there are for the most part fun to work with. Of course, there are always a few who are lazy, don't want to sing when tipped, don't want to clean, etc. Just ignore those people and take the job seriously and have fun! -YOU GET TO THROW ICE CREAM IN THE AIR- A lot of people were actually afraid to do this, and I don't see it much now. But when I was working there, I loved to do tricks with the ice cream! The customers loved it and I almost ALWAYS got tipped for it!
Cons
-IT'S COLD- Sometimes in the winter, it gets so cold that the ice cream becomes very, very difficult to scoop. I actually snapped a metal spade trying to scoop Coffee ice cream once...whoops! Also, it's FREEZING in the freezers where we store our products (obviously) but it sucks when you have to clean off the shelves in there...brrr! - SINGING - MOST of the time, singing for tips is really fun, but sometimes it can get, well, tiresome. ESPECIALLY when you're working on a busy weekend and it seems like people are continuously requesting songs.