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Mustang Daily Staff Report
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San Luis Obispo’s Coldstone Creamery may be closed, but locals can still get their ice cream fix — at the same location, where Doc Burnstein’s Ice Cream will opens its third store.
“I’ve been interested in getting into San Luis Obispo for a few years, and that seemed like the perfect location,” founder Greg Steinberger said. “Been serving ice cream there for 17 years, and people just know that as the ice cream spot … the opportunity just presented itself.”
The ice cream shop was started in 2003 in Arroyo Grande and opened a second shop in Orcutt in 2012. The ice cream parlor focuses on “superior, high quality ice cream,” Steinberger said.
The San Luis Obispo shop will be designed much like the original Doc Burnstein’s. There will be a viewing window to watch ice cream being made, a signature model railroad train circling the parlor, indoor and outdoor seating and ice cream production on-site that will produce approximately 20,000 gallons of ice cream per year just for San Luis Obispo.
Steinberger said there will also be “a surprise element that everybody will have to check out when they come into town.”
Instead of having a special Arroyo Grande and Orcutt flavor, though, Steinberger plans to create a “SLO-unique flavor.”
The shop will be looking to Cal Poly students for ideas on what would be an appropriate flavor to represent San Luis Obispo life, he said.
The shop will be under construction for the next two to three months, but until then people can get a taste of what’s to come at Farmers’ Market starting this week.
Allison Montroy contributed to this staff report.