Lyft Rider Guides Include Top Frozen Yogurt Shops in Multiple Cities

Fro-yo girl here. I stumbled across Lyft’s rider guides online and found several city guides for top frozen yogurt shops. The shops are picked because they are the “most visited” by Lyft riders according to 2020 Lyft rider data.

For example, in the Culver City area of Los Angeles, Menchie’s on Sawtelle is listed as the top/most visited frozen yogurt shop. The Lyft webpage provides the address, hours of operation, phone number, website, a short description of the shop and a button to book a ride. The information on the page looks pretty current but there are cases where the most visited frozen yogurt shop is either temporarily or permanently closed.

Here are some of the most visited frozen yogurt shops, according to Lyft:

• Crenshaw, CA: Yogurtland
• Culver City (Los Angeles, CA): Menchie’s
• Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA: Pinkberry and Yogurtland
• Long Beach, CA: Pinkberry and Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt on the Boardwalk
• Redwood City, CA: Yumi Yogurt and Yoho. I know that Yumi Yogurt definitely closed. The final day of business was September 15, 2019. The city guide must not have been updated since then. I’ve never even heard of Yoho Frozen Yogurt and no address is provided. Strange. Oh wait, I know about Yoppi Yogurt in downtown Redwood City. They changed their name to Yoho. The top shops are supposedly determined by 2020 Lyft ride data. But Yumi Yogurt closed in 2019.
• Santa Monica, CA: Menchie’s & Pinkberry
• Sherman Oaks, CA: Menchie’s
• University Town Center, Irvine, CA: Yogurtland. Irvine is where Yogurtland HQ is located.
• Hayhurst, Portland, OR: Sunny’s Legendary Frozen Yogurt
• South Tacoma, Tacoma, WA: Menchie’s
• Glendale, NY: Menchie’s
• Saint Paul, MN: Menchie’s
• Avondale, Chicago, IL: Forever Yogurt
• Hancock, Austin, TX: Menchie’s
• Midtown NYC (New York, NY): Uptown Swirl – Google indicates that this shop is permanently closed (Google is sometimes wrong though). It was open earlier this year.
• Downtown Washington DC: FroZenYo. Yelp marks this location as permanently closed but Google does not. Google reviews are still being posted, as recently as 3 weeks ago.
• Midtown Atlanta, GA: Yoforia. This location is marked as permanently closed by Google and Yelp. It was open earlier this year. Yoforia Midtown was the last location of a regional chain that at one point had 12 locations in Georgia and a few in Charlotte, NC.

According to the rider data, Menchie’s is the most popular. It also has the most locations.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

Looking for more frozen yogurt news, discussion boards, and resources? Check out the International Frozen Yogurt Association website at http://internationalfrozenyogurt.com/. The IFYA is the independent voice of the frozen yogurt industry.