The Coppelia ice cream parlors of the province of Santiago de Cuba will once again provide service with the help of micro, small and medium-sized businesses in Cuba (MSMEs) to prices that triple those they had a year ago.
The revival of the services of these popular ice cream parlors throughout the country will be done with ice cream produced with imported raw materials, and the support of others economic actors such as MSMEs and Self-Employed Workers, he told the official newspaper Sierra Maestra Eduardo Griñán Caballero, director of the Dairy Company in that eastern territory.
Prices will suffer significant variations that, according to managers, are due to the high cost of production. Although it is not ruled out that this alliance could be linked to the increase in the price of ice cream scoops at the Santiago facility.
“Each snack ball has a price of 45.00 pesos, and the combinations that the customer wants are sold,” he said. Emilio Alejandro Llaujel Infante, director of the UEB Coopelia La Arboleda of the provincial capital to the aforementioned medium. Meanwhile, it clarifies that the customer “is only charged for the ice cream.”
According to the manager, prices vary depending on the options that the client chooses, something he described as new.
“Right now we are working with condensed milk, of which 10 milliliters are added and has a price of 20.00 pesos. If the user orders a scoop of ice cream with milk, its total cost would be 65.00 pesos. In addition to other products such as sorbet and sweet cookies, the latter for a price of 5.00 pesos each,” said Llaujel Infante.
The ice cream sold at Coppelia in Santiago is manufactured at the Dairy Products Company in that eastern territory and apparently will have flavors such as vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
In 2020, the La Arboleda ice cream parlor, which has been in existence for more than 35 years, was reopened to the public in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. This emblematic place was remodeled for the 505th anniversary of the founding of the old colonial town, and its capacity increased from 400 to 800 people.
However, their reopening was not without criticism. Destruction of green areas, theft of jugs to drink water and dirt everywhere due to human action, was how the official newspaper described it. Sierra Maestra.
Recently, the lack of raw materials has affected ice cream production in the country's Coppelias.
In the Habana, at the end of November, the popular facility located on the central corner of 23 and L in Vedado, opened after several weeks of closure due to the lack of raw materials to make ice cream.
The same It happened in Sancti Spíritus at the beginning of December, when after several months closed, the capital city venue returned to provide service, but with a poor offer of flavors, absence of toppings and the scoop of ice cream at triple the price than a year ago, announced a newspaper article Escambray.
“The reopening of the Coppelia de Sancti Spíritus is an old desire of the population that during these final days of the year comes in search of a stable offer, only it will not be varied as in the moments of splendor,” warned the note, which did not specify What flavors was the ice cream shop offering after its reopening?
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