Cold Stone dishes out two scoops

Ice cream chain plans two stores in Fort Collins

FORT COLLINS — Move over Ben and Jerry’s. There’s a new ice cream franchise moving into Northern Colorado.

By the end of March, two Cold Stone Creamery stores are scheduled to open in Fort Collins — one targeted to the Colorado State University campus crowd on West Laurel Street near College Avenue, the other near the Cinemark Theater complex at Harmony and Timberline roads.

Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., Cold Stone Creamery Inc. began franchising in 1995 and already has more than 200 stores and an additional 225 scheduled to open across 29…