Founded in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona, Cold Stone Creamery on Truxtun Road in Point Loma near Liberty Station mixes super-premium ice cream on a frozen granite slab chilled to 16 degrees Fahrenheit. The signature process folds customer-selected mix-ins — candies, nuts, brownies, fruit — into 14-percent-butterfat ice cream made fresh in-store, a hands-on customization format distinct from the pre-batched gelato program at The Craft Creamery. Serving sizes run from the tennis-ball "Like It" to the softball-scale "Gotta Have It," with signature creations like the Birthday Cake Remix and Peanut Butter Cup Perfection pre-designed for speed. The Truxtun Road location also stocks ice cream cakes and the chain's Frosty shake line, filling a frozen-dessert niche on the Liberty Station corridor alongside the soft-serve rotation at Baskin-Robbins. Custom ice cream cake builds layered with mix-ins and personalized frosting represent the highest-complexity orders the granite-slab counter handles in Point Loma San Diego.