Ice cream cookie sandwiches rule at teen’s CREAM shop

For some students, completing a school project is just another assignment for a grade, but for 18-year-old Armando Martinez Jr., it turned into Florida’s first ever-CREAM franchise, a dessert company specializing in the ice cream cookie sandwich.

Martinez Jr., now a senior at Cypress Bay High in Weston, was part of the school’s DECA program, an educational track that reinforces business and entrepreneur leadership. As a sophomore, he was assigned a project to improve an existing business model for a company. Armando shared with his father, also an entrepreneur, the project idea and that’s when a light bulb went off. Armando Martinez Sr. had recently visited California and noticed a line out of the door at a shop called CREAM, Cookiesmaster franchise on May 7. As part of the fun, they had a full-blown extravaganza with free ice cream sandwiches for anyone that stopped by.

CREAM also offers gluten free cookies and ice cream as well as vegan options. They also create a twist on Taco Tuesday with their ice cream taco, cones, sundaes and over 20 flavors of super-premium ice cream.

Antwan Richardson from Liberty City saw a Facebook post about CREAMS’s grand opening and decided to stop by with his family. He waited in line for an hour in hopes of trying his signature pick; cookies and cream ice cream sandwiched between two chocolate chip cookies and topped off with almonds.

"I figured it would be a good outing for the kids. This is good for the future. The