Friday is opening day for a new speciality ice cream store at Canal Walk in Cape Town from the world’s largest chain which offers a pink spoon to taste its flavours including Pralines and Cream‚ Chocolate Overload and Green Tea‚ Earl Grey and Cookies. Baskin-Robbins’s Cape Town outlet will be operated by South African franchise holder Grand Foods. Cape Business News quoted Sean Dearham‚ chief operating officer of Baskin-Robbins South Africa‚ as saying that local demand for artisanal ice cream and a variety of flavours was rising. Baskin-Robbins is best known globally for its "31 flavours", a different flavour for each day of the month. It has what it calls a "library" of more than 1‚300 flavours to choose from. Under the Grand Foods banner‚ Baskin-Robbins South Africa is the 51st country with this offering.

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