Marble Slab Creamery

Marble Slab Creamery

For more than twenty-five years, Marble Slab Creamery® has delighted guests with super-premium, hand-mixed ice cream made fresh in store and served with our fresh-baked signature waffle cones and homemade brownies. The company is the innovator of the frozen granite concept, allowing customers the ability to create their own ice cream combinations by selecting their favorite ice cream and mix-ins.

Every batch of Marble Slab Creamery's super-premium ice cream is homemade. Our research and development team constantly searches the world to find ingredients with the superior quality customers expect from Marble Slab Creamery - all the way from the tiny country of Madagascar for vanilla beans to Holland for cocoa, and Sweden for the world's best dipping chocolate. In addition to global flavors, fresh ingredients from local dairies are essential to the Marble Slab experience. Each franchisee gets their ice cream mix from the very best local dairies, providing a premium mix that is always fresh.

Marble Slab Creamery also offers delicious nonfat frozen yogurt, smoothies, shakes and malts, sundaes, banana splits, ice cream cakes and pies. For our mix-ins, we prepare only the freshest fruits, the finest nuts, the sweetest candies and the yummiest cookies around to satisfy the most sophisticated palettes and the craziest of cravings!

Store Design

Our stores are designed to reflect our chef-inspired heritage and envelope the customer into a modern ice cream dream. We display our fresh ingredients, our homemade cones, our small batch artisanal ice cream and our ice cream cakes with pride. Marble Slab Creamery® stores are the perfect environment to grab a casual scoop on the go or sit down with the family and enjoy a customized, fresh-made ice cream treat.

Franchise Training

Franchise training and support includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Marketing / Public Relations - Support with building brand awareness, driving traffic to the store, creating brand loyalty and increasing frequency of visit.
• Design & Construction - Turnkey store design and support through build-out.
• Real Estate - Assistance with site selection within Australia.
• Operations - Periodic visits from field representatives to consult on operations and marketing to help increase profitable revenues; consultation on store operations, key business metrics and P&L management.
• Crew Training - Ongoing tips for crew training to ensure customer satisfaction and long term customer loyalty (including suggestive selling techniques for new products).
• Networking - Opportunities to network with experienced peers who enjoy sharing knowledge to benefit fellow owners.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. How much does it cost to open a Marble Slab Creamery®?
A. The total start up investment for a Marble Slab Creamery franchise varies depending on location and market. Review Item 7 of the Disclosure Document and consult with your Development Manager regarding your specific situation.

Q. What does the franchise fee cover?
 A. It secures the right to own and operate a Marble Slab Creamery in a given location, as well as the right to use the Marble Slab Creamery trade name, trade mark, recipes, dècor, and manner of doing business. It also includes site approval and assistance with lease negotiations, architectural layout and construction. Most importantly it includes in-store training where we teach you everything you need to know to operate and manage a Marble Slab Creamery. Our trained personnel will help you open your store and offer you continued field supervision and public relations assistance before your store is opened.

Q. Can a store be purchased as an investment without my being the full time manager?
A. Yes, but you will need a qualified manager to operate the store. In our experience, the more involved the franchisee, the more successful the store is with this goal in mind.

Q. What is the size of a typical store?
A. The typical store size is between 56 and 140 square meters (meter square/m²)

Q. Is your ice cream made in a factory and then shipped to your different locations like most ice cream franchises?
A. Absolutely not. All of our stores make their ice cream fresh daily starting with our proprietary recipe milk/dairy mix combined with only the finest ingredients. In fact, Sweet Cream, our most popular ice cream flavor, consists of only the base milk mixture with none of the flavors or ingredients added.

Q. Do you serve anything else besides ice cream?
A. Yes. While ice cream, in a freshly baked waffle cone is our most popular product combination, we offer many other desserts alternatives, including nonfat frozen yogurt, smoothies, shakes, and malts, sundaes, banana splits, ice cream cakes and pies and made from scratch brownies.

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