Fro-yo girl here. Times are tough right now, with most of us stuck at home. Many froyo shops have closed and most that are still open have cut back their hours. I’ve seen some of the temporarily closed ones reopen, so that’s a good sign.
It’s also heart-warming to see froyo shops giving back to those in need or those who are helping others during this public health crisis. I wanted to share a few examples of froyo shops giving back to show my appreciation for the generosity and kindness of those involved. I’ll try to add to this list as I see more examples.
Discounts
- Aloha Yogurt (Tempe, AZ) is offering free treats to first responders when they show their ID/badge.
- Blitzer’s! Premium Frozen Yogurt (Murrieta & Menifee, CA) is giving $5 in Blitzer Bucks to healthcare workers, grocery or retail workers, EMS professionals, military personnel, and anyone else working on the front lines during the crisis. Send Blitzer’s! a direct message on Instagram, @blitzers.yogurt
- Downtown Yogurt (NJ, NY) offered free froyo for first responders on April 17, extended to happen every Friday from 3 PM - 6 PM
- Menchie’s Gateway (Springfield, OR) is offering a BOGO free deal to medical personnel and first responders from April 6 – April 12, 2020.
- Pinkberry (nationwide): On Thursdays during the month of April, Pinkberry is offering First Responders and Medical Personnel a special Thankful Thursday discount of 50% off any swirl. One per person per visit with a valid badge or ID.
- Swirls & Twirls (Oceanside, NY) offers a 20% discount to all police, firefighters, nurses, doctors, & EMS starting May 2nd
- U-Swirl (Waco, TX) offered 50% off for first responders and medical providers every Thursday with badge or valid ID
- Urban Yogurt (Shingle Springs, CA) is offering free froyo to first responders come in uniform or show a valid ID
- Yo-Chi (Australia) is giving healthcare & emergency service workers 50% when in uniform
- Yogli Mogli (Douglasville, GA) is offering a 50% discount to healthcare workers on Thursday, April 9 & Friday, April 10 with a hospital or work ID
Donations
- 16 Handles (NY) donated froyo to Mount Sinai hospitals
- 20 Degrees Frozen Yogurt Lounge (Cookeville, TN) donated 350 froyo cups to local healthcare workers
- Aloha Yogurt (Tempe, AZ) launched a campaign, Treat A Hero, to collect donations of froyo to first responders like the ER nurses at Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital.
- Big Spoon Yogurt (Roseville, CA) donated 100% of its profits to help the local community
- Chiller Bee (Conroe, TX) donated froyo to the Conroe police department
- Eat'N'Go (Nigeria), the master franchisee of Domino's Pizza, Cold Stone Creamery, ad Pinkberry in Nigeria, has been donating food to essential workers during the coronavirus crisis.
- Menchie’s Antelope Valley Mall (Palmdale, CA) donated froyo
to the medical staff at Palmdale Regional Medical Center
- Menchie's (Glendale & South Pasadena, CA) donated froyo to the nurses and doctors at Glendale Adventist Hospital.
- Menchie's Johnson Ave (The Bronx, NY) gave 200 cups of froyo to employees of the New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center with the help of an anonymous donor
- Menchie's Arkansas has donated 1,500 cups to local medical personnel and launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to donate more froyo. They also delivered complimentary froyo to the Little Rock Air Force Base with the money they raised.
- Menchie’s Northcrest (Charlotte, NC) donated a froyo cake to the North Mecklenburg Animal Rescue and is encouraging people to adopt pets. They also donated froyo to Second Harvest Food Bank.
- Menchie’s University (Encino, CA) donated froyo to ONEgeneration, a local non-profit that provides programs and services to seniors and their caregivers to promote physical and mental well-being.
- Menchie's Windsor (CT) brought froyo to Community Health Services of Hartford, Hartford Healthcare's Urgent Care and Hartford Hospital's COVID-19 unit, thanks to the donation from Kristen & Scott
- Monster Yogurt (TX) is asking for donations to send snack packs to the coronavirus front lines
- Pinkberry (London, UK) donated froyo to the staff at Royal London Hospital
- sweetFrog (Lawrenceville, GA) donated 218 froyo cups to essential workers.
- TCBY (Greeley, CO) donated froyo to Banner Health's North Colorado Medical Center, multiple times
- Yasso lent their refrigerated froyo truck to Metro Ministries to serve as a mobile food bank in Denver, Colorado
- Yobu (UK) brought froyo to the staff at Avon View Care & Nursing Home in Christchurch, thanks to the donation from Rob Smith
- Yoga-urt (Glendale & Los Angeles, CA) has set up a Go Fund Me campaign to collect donations to send froyo pints & bowls to medical teams in Los Angeles. If you’d like to donate froyo, check out the campaign. And Yoga-urt joined Support + Feed, the initiative created by Billie Eilish's mom which partners with vegan restaurants in LA and NY to help feed first responders, hospitals, senior centers and others.
- Yogurt Mill (Modesto & Turlock, CA) donated froyo to the NCCU nurses, ER staff, and the Patient Access staff at Doctors Medical Center
- Yogurtland Uptown (New Orleans, LA) donated froyo to the University Medical Center New Orleans
- Yogurtland Genesee Plaza (San Diego, CA) donated froyo to local food pantry, Porchlight Community.
- Yogurtland partnered with the Los Angeles Angels and donated 160 cups of froyo to MemorialCare Medical Group in Fountain Valley, CA
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.
Fro-yo girl here. It will be hard to find any place to get froyo on Thanksgiving, but get ready for Froyo Black Friday deals. You can find them at froyo shops worldwide.
The deals are listed in alphabetical order, by shop:
- 16 Handles (Clifton Park, Fairfield, Stamford, Summit): Get a $100 gift card for $50
- 20 Degrees (Cookeville, TN): Free $5 gift card with $25 gift card purchase
- Cherry on Top (Riverside, CA): Buy $20 gift card, get $10 in free gift cards from 11/29-12/1
- Berri Yummi (Wilmington, DE): 50% off gift cards from 6:30-8:30 AM on Black Friday
- Chill’d (Conifer, CO): $5 deal all day on Black Friday
- Chills Froyo & Custard (Kennewick, WA): Buy $30 in gift cards, get a $5 gift card for free on Black Friday
- Cuppa Yo (Bend, OR): Buy $20 in gift cards, get $5 free on Black Friday
- Cup n' Spoon (Morganton, NC): Buy $20 in gift cards, get a $5 gift card free on Black Friday
- Dolci Mango (Chula Vista & Poway, CA): $7 unlimited cup on Black Friday
- Front Porch (Round Rock, TX): Spin the wheel for discounts up to 50% off on Black Friday from 12 PM - 6 PM
- Froyoholic Cafe (Phoenix, AZ): BOGO free on froyo and crepes on Black Friday
- Happy Cow (Wesley Chapel, FL): For each $25 gift card purchased, receive a free $10 gift card
- Just Peachy (Burlington & Marysville, WA): 30% off gift cards with a minimum purchase of $10 on Black Friday
- Kiwi Loco (Rexburg, ID): BOGO on gift cards on Black Friday
- La Yogurteria di Vico Equense (Vico Equense, Italy): 30% off on Black Friday, 20% on Nov. 30, 10% off on Dec. 1, 2019
- llaollao (Houston, TX): Follow @llaollao_houston on IG and show post with Black Friday offer to get a free petitllao with a medium tub purchase
- llaollao (Malaysia): Black charcoal froyo one day only, Black Friday, while supplies last
- llaollao (Singapore): 1 for 1 medium tubs on Black Friday
- llaollao (Switzerland): 25% off your purchase on Black Friday
- Marcel's Frozen Yoghurt (South Africa): Get two limited edition Marcel's black cones for R50 from November 29 - December 1
- Menchie’s (Ann Arbor & Rochester Hills, MI): Save 30% on froyo cups on Black Friday, not valid with any other offer or promotion, including Mysmileage points
- Menchie's Antelope Valley Mall: BOGO free on Black Friday, show offer on IG: menchies_av
- Menchie's Butler North (Gainesville, FL): BOGO free on November 29
- Menchie's (El Centro, CA): $6 fill up cup on Nov. 29
- Menchie’s Kelsey Creek (Bellevue, WA): $6 fill up your cup on Nov. 29 all day
- Menchie's Mandalay Village (Port Hueneme, CA): BOGO on Black Friday from 11 Am - 5 PM, mention "5free" and get a $5 gift card
- Menchie's (Miami, FL): BOGO on Black Friday
- Menchie's National (West Allis, WI): 30% off on Black Friday
- Menchie's at Northcrest (Charlotte, NC): 30% off froyo on Nov. 29, plus a free gift while supplies last
- Menchie’s Northpointe (Lynnwood, WA): $6 fill up your cup on Nov. 29 all day
- Menchie's (Pico Rivera, CA): 50% off your cup on Black Friday from 12 - 6 PM, show offer @IG: menchiespicorivera
- Menchie's (Pinole, CA): BOGO free, 1-4PM on Black Friday, $5 minimum purchase
- Menchie's Redstone (Indianland, SC): 30% off on Black Friday
- Menchie's (Rialto, CA): BOGO free on Black Friday, show coupon on IG @menchies_rialtomarketplace
- Moolala (Merrick, NY): 20% off your purchase from 3 - 9 PM on Black Friday
- Nectar Frozen Yogurt Lounge (Portland, OR): On Black Friday, spend $25 or more on gift cards, get 20% off, spend $50 or more on gift cards, get 35% off, spend $100 or more on gift cards, get 50% off
- Orange Leaf (participating locations): Get a shake or smoothie for $1 when you buy $5 in gift cards on Black Friday, with coupon
- Oregon Froyo (Oregon, WI): Buy a $25 gift card, get $5 card free Black Friday weekend
- Pinkberry (US): Triple points on Black Friday, also purchase $50 in eGift cards, get a $15 eGift bonus from Nov. 29 - Dec. 6
- Pinkberry Nigeria: 50% off a large take home cup on select flavors from November 25-30
- Red Mango (Centennial & Mcallen, TX): $5 flat rate cup with toppings on Black Friday
- Redberry, Poland: 30% to 50% on second same or cheaper product
- Skinny Sweet Froyo (Glen Ellyn, IL): All you can fill for $4.99 on Black Friday
- Sincerely Yogurt (Bridgeville, PA): Get a $25 gift card for $15 on Black Friday
- Sincerely Yogurt (Cranberry Township, PA): Get a $25 gift card for $15 on Black Friday
- Sincerely Yogurt South Side (Pittsburgh, PA): Get a $25 gift card for $15 on Black Friday
- Smooy (Spain): Free sauce with froyo purchase on Black Friday
- Snog (UK): Special charcoal black Snog available from Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 only
- Spoons Frozen Yogurt (Alexandria, LA): 15% off your total purchase on Black Friday
- Suzy's Swirl (Lake Bluff, IL): BOGO on gift cards. Buy one gift card, get one of equal value from November 22-29, 2019
- sweetFrog: Buy $30 in gift cards, get $10 in leap back cards from Nov. 29-Dec.2
- Toppings (Rohnert Park, CA): First 50 customers who mention the Black Friday offer on Black Friday get BOGO 1/2 off, lower priced item receives the discount, not valid on gift cards
- Tutti Frutti (San Carlos, CA): 30% off any size cup of froyo on Friday, November 29th 12 pm-6pm.
- U-Swirl (Waco, TX): $5 all you can fill cup on Black Friday
- Vanilla Spoon (El Salvador): Buy one, get one 50% off on Nov. 29 -30
- Yagoot (Cincinnati, OH): BOGO free on Black Friday
- Yo Factor (Toms River, NJ): Buy $25 in gift cards, get a free $5 bonus card on Black Friday
- Yo! G's Frozen Yogurt (Poulsbo, WA): Buy $25 in gift cards, get $10 free on Black Friday
- Yo Zone (Beaverton, OR): Double points on Black Friday from 11 AM - 3 PM
- Yog Bar (UK): 50% off everything with minimum spend on Black Friday
- Yogli Mogli (Douglasville, GA): BOGO 50% off on Black Friday, show the cashier the IG post @douglasvilleyoglimogli
- Yogurt Andias (Hialeah, FL): $6 flat rate cup on Nov. 29
- Yogurt City (Dickson City & Wilkes Barre Township, PA): On Black Friday from 10 AM – 10 PM, 50% off gift certificates. Buy five $10 gift certificates for $25. Must purchase in quantities of five.
- Yogurtini Oxigeno (Costa Rica): 50% off on Black Friday
- Yogurtland: Some locations will be selling Sweet Treat booklets for $40 for two booklets for $30 each booklet (up to $260 in savings) on Black Friday
- Yogurtland (Compton, CA): BOGO free on Black Friday from 3 PM - 8 PM
- Yogurtland (Lafayette, LA): $5 fill up on Black Friday
- Yogurtland Santa Monica Promenade (Santa Monica, CA): BOGO free on Black Friday
- Yogurtland Towne Center (Baton Rouge, LA): $5 all you can fill cup on Black Friday
- Yogurtland Uptown (New Orleans, LA): $5 all you can fill cup on Black Friday
- Yogurtland (Yucaipa, CA): Buy $25 in gift card, get $5 gift card free from Black Friday - January 1
- Yoyogurt Cagliari: 20% off all orders from 11/29-12/1
Expect a few more updates to this post, since many shops announce deals at the last minute, even on Black Friday. You can also view Black Friday froyo specials on this Pinterest board, https://www.pinterest.com/froyogirl/black-friday-froyo-specials/
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.
