Scoop Dreams.An ice-cream maker with a growing presence in the L.A. area has come up with a way to avoid the labor crunch while stocking its stores with some of the perkiest employees around. Cold Stone Creamery Cold Stone Creamery is an ice cream parlor chain based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.[1] History The company was co-founded in 1988 by Susan and Donald Sutherland (unrelated to actor Donald Sutherland), who sought ice cream that was neither hard-packed of Scottsdale, Ariz., encourages its franchisers to hold auditions, or casting calls, for prospective scoopers. Dave Siemienski, co-owner of stores in Glendale, Alhambra and Westlake Village, said that auditions offer a better way of assessing personalities than traditional job applications and make the stores fun places to work. "Ultimately, we get them to bust a move, to dance and sing and all that," Siemienski said of the audition audition /au·di·tion/ (aw-dish´un) hearing. chromatic audition color hearing. au·di·tion n. The sense, ability, or power of hearing. regimen regimen /reg·i·men/ (rej´i-men) a strictly regulated scheme of diet, exercise, or other activity designed to achieve certain ends. reg·i·men n. 1. . "We've come upon a process that weeds 1. weeds - Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from "off in the weeds". Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds." 2. out the dead wood and gets the most dynamic personalities in our stores." |
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