2021 California Froyo Shop Openings and Closings

Fro-yo girl here. It’s time for my annual update of California froyo shop openings and closings 2021. It was still a tough year for small businesses, with COVID-19 restrictions, rising costs, and labor and supply shortages. Most self-serve froyo shops resumed allowing customers to serve their own yogurt and toppings.

As usual, I tried to track any place that serves froyo in soft serve form. This includes restaurants, convenience stores, pop-ups, food trucks and trailers, etc. It's always easiest to track openings since most frozen yogurt have a social media presence and Yelp listing. However, many shops close quietly, without making any announcement.

Here’s my attempt to track froyo shop openings and closings in California this year. Shops are listed in alphabetical order.

Froyo Shop Openings (Including Trucks and Pop-Ups)

1. Active Culture, Novato
2. Culture Shock, Auburn
3. FroGo, Alameda (froyo truck)
4. FrostedLUV, Stockton
5. Frutzy, Bakersfield (pop-up)
6. Machi Frozen Yogurt, Sacramento (formerly YoGo)
7. Pinkberry, Redlands
8. Simon’s Dole Whip & Yogurt, Temecula
9. SLO Froyo, San Luis Obispo
10. The Spot Café & Froyo, Weed
11. Sweet Boba, Fullerton
12. Toppings Frozen Yogurt, Santa Rosa
13. Yoga-urt, Santa Monica
14. Yogurt Pop, Rancho Murieta
15. Yogurtland, Madera

Openings, Serves Froyo but Not a Froyo Shop:

1. The Good Plow, Carpinteria
2. Nick the Greek, Dublin
3. Nick the Greek, Fremont
4. Nick the Greek, Fullerton
5. Nick the Greek, Roseville
6. Nick the Greek, San Mateo
7. Nick the Greek, Santa Clara, Westfield Valley Fair
8. Nick the Greek, Santa Monica
9. Nick the Greek, Westlake Village
10. Tahina, Alameda

Added Froyo, but Not a New Business and Not a Froyo Shop

• Capo, Belmont

That’s 15 new froyo shops, 10 non-froyo shops that serve froyo, plus one existing café that added froyo, for a total of 26 places that started serving froyo this year. Last year, I found 22 froyo shop openings. I didn’t count the rebranded froyo businesses or the ones under new ownership.

Rebranded

• Corner Café & Froyo Murrieta renamed Simon’s Dole Whip & Yogurt
• Yogurtland Lakewood (now Yogurtland by Holsom)

Under New Ownership

• Golden Spoon, Riverside
• Menchie’s Ocean Park, Santa Monica
• Red Mango, Los Angeles
• Rockie’s Frozen Yogurt, Whittier
• Top a Lot, Santa Cruz
• Yum Yum Yogurt, Kingsburg

Froyo Shop Closings

1. Big Kahuna Frozen Yogurt, Clovis
2. Big Spoon, Natomas
3. Blitzer’s! Premium Frozen Yogurt, Murrieta
4. Blizz, Downey
5. Cloud 9 Yogurt House, San Diego
6. Creme De La Ice Cream, Santa Maria
7. Culture Shock, Auburn (moved)
8. Fiji Yogurt, San Diego
9. Forty Carrots, Santa Monica
10. FROLO, Manteca
11. Frozen Land, Los Angeles (Westwood)
12. Frozo’s, Santa Clara
13. Golden Cups, Long Beach
14. Golden Spoon, Whittier
15. Golden Spoon, Valencia
16. Happy Yogurt, Escondido
17. Menchie’s, Burbank (moving)
18. Menchie’s, Chatsworth
19. Menchie’s, Glendale
20. Menchie’s Roseville
21. Menchie’s, Temecula
22. Menchie's, Van Nuys
23. Menchie’s Westchester
24. Menchie's, Westfield Mall, San Jose
25. Peachwave, Redondo Beach
26. Pink Boba, Fullerton
27. Pinkberry, Citrus Heights
28. Pinkberry, Hollywood
29. Prinkipia, Canoga Park
30. Red Mango, Los Angeles
31. Rockin’ Yogurt, Santa Barbara 
32. Ruby Frozen Yogurt, Stockton
33. Swirl Frozen Yogurt, Camarillo
34. Top That Yogurt, Sonoma
35. Tutti Frutti, Corona
36. Tutti Frutti, Montebello
37. Tutti Frutti, Norwalk
38. Tutti Frutti, Visalia
39. Tuttimelon, Fairfield
40. YoDo Yogurt, Campbell
41. Yogurt Creations, Paso Robles
42. Yogurt Creations, Atascadero
43. Yogurt Creations, Arroyo Grande
44. Yogurt Creations, Lompoc
45. Yogurt Valley, Wildomar
46. Yogurtland, Alhambra
47. Yogurtland, Burlingame
48. Yogurtland, Long Beach, 7th St.
49. Yogurtland, Mission Viejo - Kaleidoscope
50. Yogurtland, Oxnard
51. Yogurtland, San Bernardino
52. Yogurtland, San Luis Obispo
53. YOJO Coffee & Frozen Yogurt, Menifee

I found 53 closings, including 8 Menchie’s locations, 2 Pinkberry locations, 4 Tutti Frutti locations, and 7 Yogurtland locations. Yogurt Creations closed their remaining locations.  Last year, I found 72 froyo shop closings. It was a very tough year due to the pandemic.

Coming soon

• Active Culture, Long Beach
• Beary Bliss Yogurt Shop & Sweets, Big Bear
• Easy Breezy, Los Gatos
• Menchie’s, Burbank (moving)
• NuYo Frozen Yogurt, Roseville
• Sprinkles on Top, Elk Grove
• Yogurt Stop, Rossmoor
• Yogurtland, Fresno (Riverside Dr.)
• Yogurtland, Pixley

Since I find out about openings and closings after publishing my post, I’ll keep updating this post. Did I miss any openings or closings? Let me know.

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

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