Officials of Marble Slab Creamery, a chain of independently owned North American franchised stores that specialize in serving ice cream and other desserts are currently in Guyana winding up discussions with United Investments that are likely to result in the launch of a local franchise at its America Street outlet “possibly within a matter of weeks,” Marketing Manager Michael Alleyne has said.
United Investments is the parent company for the Footsteps Megastore at the corner of Camp and Regent streets, the Exclusive Styles boutique opposite as well as two other more modest Footsteps establishments at the corner of Camp and Charlotte streets and on America Street, across the way from Stabroek Market. The company is also currently engaged in talks with another North American food franchise as it seeks to add an even greater measure of variety to the services that it provides.
Alleyne agrees that United Investments’ Footsteps Megastore, topped by the popular Gravity Lounge has left a huge footprint on the commercial architecture of the capital.
He says too that by now the directorate of United Investments—Sabita Narine and her sons, Clairmonte and Dwayne Cummings—would have changed the minds of those skeptics who
