After three months of repair, the famous Coppelia ice cream shop He reopened Wednesday with improvements in his infrastructure, but with a border in his offers and new prices.
The stability in the offer and flavors “will depend on the suppliers supplies,” he told Havana Tribune Yeny González Ortiz, Head of Services of that Base Business Unit of the Recreatur company.
He also said that the measure “will allow offers to be maintained throughout the day” and that “more people can access them.”
The ice cream shop will open from Tuesday to Sunday, between 10:00 in the morning to 9:15 at night, and the offer will be for specialties. To the traditional ones – nailed, three thanks, Super Twins, the three varieties of “cows” (Blanca, Prieta, Pinta), Jimaguas, Arlequín, Sunday – will be incorporated others created by the ice cream shop, such as the 4 jewels, details the medium.
Electronic payment will reign
In areas A and C and in the 4 jewels, the payment methods will be “exclusively” by electronic catwalks Enzona and Transfermobo. Meanwhile, in area B, the court and the tower can be used, interchangeably, the electronic route or the cash, according to the client.
Several independent media have disseminated the price tablet of the Coppelia offers, in which there is an increase in the value of the specialties, which now range between 30 and 155 Cuban pesos.
The ice cream shop began to boost the electronic payment of its offers in 2020, when it did its first test by enzone. Then he spent several months closed by the pandemic. However, shortly after he had to restrict his services due to the regrowth of the disease in the capital. For that reason, he made ice cream sales to carry, while his areas for consumption In situ They remained closed.
In 2021, the authorities announced a reduction at prices, after the avalanche of criticism and complaints received after the entry into force of the new installation rates as part of the monetary ordering on the way from this January 1st on the island on the island .
A year later, in 2022, Coppelia rose to 9 pesos the Coppelia ice cream ball and the offer of Varadero for the increase in the “price of fresh milk”.
In the last four years, prices in Coppelia ice cream shop in Havana have experienced significant increases.
At the beginning of 2021, with the implementation of the task order, the price of an ice cream ball went from 1.50 Cuban pesos (CUP) to 7.00 CUP. This increase generated discontent among customers, which led to a revision of rates. Subsequently, the price of the ice cream ball was adjusted to 5.00 CUP in the areas of the courts and towers, and 4.00 Cup on the outside where it is sold in a barquillo.
