Travelogue: Yogurt Edition.
Jul. 5th, 2012 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matt_doyle So, something Virginia has more than one of, but the Upper Midwest appears to utterly lack?
Awesome self-serve frozen yogurt bars.
I mean, maybe to most of you this concept is not beautiful and revolutionary, but I have just been to my first Yogurt Vi, and I was blown away by everything but the name (and okay, "just been" means like a week or two ago. Shut up.).
Basically, you walk in the front door, and there's seating along the wall to your right, a big open space at the middle, a bunch of containers, spoons, and frozen yogurt dispensers in back, literally dozens of toppings along the left wall, and then a counter right by the door. They charge you based on the weight of your frozen yogurt, which I think is a brilliant sliding price mechanism, letting everyone self-calibrate their dessert by appetite and greed. Plus, it's easy on the employees -- all you have to do is clean, stock, and work checkout, unlike every other place ever where you need three extra dudes to make the food as fast as you can during the lunch rush.
Plus, the selection was choice, and the resulting desserts were delicious.
Somebody move the damn franchise into Fargo already.
Does everyone else already know about these places? I heard an interesting theory advanced about their proliferation, but I have no clue how accurate it may or may not be. Y'all been holkding out on me4?
Awesome self-serve frozen yogurt bars.
I mean, maybe to most of you this concept is not beautiful and revolutionary, but I have just been to my first Yogurt Vi, and I was blown away by everything but the name (and okay, "just been" means like a week or two ago. Shut up.).
Basically, you walk in the front door, and there's seating along the wall to your right, a big open space at the middle, a bunch of containers, spoons, and frozen yogurt dispensers in back, literally dozens of toppings along the left wall, and then a counter right by the door. They charge you based on the weight of your frozen yogurt, which I think is a brilliant sliding price mechanism, letting everyone self-calibrate their dessert by appetite and greed. Plus, it's easy on the employees -- all you have to do is clean, stock, and work checkout, unlike every other place ever where you need three extra dudes to make the food as fast as you can during the lunch rush.
Plus, the selection was choice, and the resulting desserts were delicious.
Somebody move the damn franchise into Fargo already.
Does everyone else already know about these places? I heard an interesting theory advanced about their proliferation, but I have no clue how accurate it may or may not be. Y'all been holkding out on me4?
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Date: 2012-07-05 07:49 pm (UTC)They're all over Chicago...
ETA: According to family there's at least one in Southern Indiana as well.
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Date: 2012-07-05 07:59 pm (UTC)As a native Minnesotan, the phrase "Upper Midwest" probably means further up for me than for most people?
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Date: 2012-07-05 08:06 pm (UTC)/Latitude Snob
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Date: 2012-07-05 09:09 pm (UTC)Maybe they're moving east to west....
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Date: 2012-07-07 02:41 pm (UTC)I've heard it is, and I can imagine what it would taste like; it's just something I've always wanted to try and haven't managed to yet whenever I'm in the US.
I'm still bitter that peanut butter M&Ms apparently have too much fat to be classified as a confectionary by the EU, so that only the tiny specialist shops can stock them. So whenever a friend visits, or I'm in the US, a line of my to buy list involves "buy all the peanut butter M&Ms you can get back within your weight limit".
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Date: 2012-07-07 02:46 pm (UTC)Also my friends clued me in that there is a self serve frozen yogurt place two miles away. So I can no longer complain.