Dallas Fort Worth Airport Froyo Options

 

Fro-yo girl here. Did you know that the Dallas Fort Worth Airport has the most places inside an airport to get froyo in the world? There are six places to get froyo. Of the five terminals, only Terminal E does not have froyo. DFW Airport is the second largest airport in the US. Luckily the Skylink train connects the terminals and arrives every two minutes.

All the Pinkberry locations have the same owner, same flavors, same menu (froyo and smoothies), two Taylor machines, and same prices. Each has two froyo machines. A small froyo with toppings is $7.89 or $6.09 for the yogurt only. A medium is $7.09 yogurt only and $8.89 with toppings.

• Freshens is in Terminal C. It serves froyo, smoothies, and drinks. I spotted two froyo machines. A cup of froyo was $6.29.
• Pinkberry, located at Terminal A, Gate A19 after security, opened at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport in 2017, possibly. There are two Pinkberry locations in Terminal A.
• Pinkberry, in Terminal A is near Gate A25, seems to have opened after 2015 and possibly replaced the Red Mango near Gate A25.
• Pinkberry, Terminal C at gate 22 seems to have opened after 2015.
• Pinkberry, Terminal D at gate 12 seems to have opened after 2015. Terminal D is the international terminal, the nicest terminal.
• Red Mango, Terminal B, has two twin-twist Taylor soft serve machines. A 12 oz cup of froyo without toppings is $8.56. They also have smoothies and acai bowls. At one time there were five Red Mango locations in the Dallas Fort Worth airport. Today, one remains open.

I wasn't too impressed with the stale toppings and texture of the Pinkberry froyo that I ordered from Terminal C and I was afraid that I would have a similar experience at another DFW Pinkberry.

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

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Worst Fro-yo Shops in the Bay Area

Fro-yo girl here. Now it’s 2013 and time to update my best and worst of the Bay Area lists.I’ll start with the worst shops in the Bay Area. Like their counterparts in 2008, the worst frozen yogurt shops feature fro-yo with horrible texture and flavor. Their toppings are worse than average too (including some stale toppings). 

I’ll sometimes receive a note from the owner saying that they were having machine problems on the day that I visited. Since I’m not inclined to revisit such places, things may have improved at the shops on this list (and I hope that they have).

Fro-yo texture problems are quite common. The shops that made the list are the worst offenders at the time of my visit. It’s important to take care of frozen yogurt machines. Even good mix can be ruined by a poorly maintained frozen yogurt machine.

* YOGURT NET (1445 Foxworthy Avenue, San Jose, CA): I encountered runny, too soft frozen yogurt and limited toppings.

* 1ST TREAT YOGURT (2124 1st St., Livermore, CA): The awful frozen yogurt was clumpy, gritty, soft and filmy, not sure how the texture can be that terrible but I don’t think I want to know. The fruit toppings did not look fresh.

* FRESHENS (inside the Golden Bear Cafe, Cesar Chavez Student Center, Berkeley, CA): Old school frozen yogurt that tastes like plastic

* YOLATEA (600 Main St. Suite F, Pleasanton, CA): I can’t eat fro-yo with texture this bad: soft, runny and fluffy

* TUTTI FRUTTI CONCORD (3375 Port Chicago Highway Suite A, Concord, CA): The worst TF location, it feels like no one is maintaining the machines. All the frozen yogurt is super icy. They didn’t even have any fresh fruit toppings. A few machines were out of order.

* RUBY FROZEN YOGURT (1160 N. Capitol Ave., San Jose, CA): The frozen yogurt has too much flavor syrup and it’s too soft

* POLAR ICE (96 E. San Salvador St., San Jose, CA): Machines were out of order and the fro-yo was very fluffy

* YOGURT WALK (6601 Dublin Blvd. Ste 1., Dublin, CA): Fluffy and clumpy fro-yo, yuck. Looking at some newer pictures, it looks like their frozen yogurt texture has improved.

I’ve noticed that the worst time to visit a frozen yogurt shop is right before they close. The texture seems to be the worst at that time. However I did not visit the shops that made this list late at night.

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