Froyo Scene in Brentwood, CA

Fro-yo girl here. Since I discovered that Antioch, CA, had no froyo shops, I also discovered that the froyo shops are in neighboring Brentwood. Brentwood is also in Contra Costa County, and it has a population of 65,126. The city is known for its agricultural products and farming. The median household income is $144,484, higher than Antioch’s, and the mean age is 39.6 years.

Brentwood has two froyo shops, one eatery that serves froyo, and one froyo truck. I found six closed froyo shops and many of those were open for over ten years.

Current Froyo Shops

• Menchie’s, 2530 Sand Creek Rd Unit B-2, opened in 2011 at Sand Creek Crossing.
• Cool Spot Frozen Yogurt, 390 W Country Club Dr, Suite B, opened in 2016. It’s a locally-owned, non-franchise, self-serve froyo shop that also sells cookies, nachos, stuffed pretzels, churros, milkshakes, coffee, slushes, dog froyo, etc. They have another location in Brentwood that serves hand-scooped ice cream and doesn’t have froyo.
• Cool Spot launched a froyo truck in 2022.
• Nick the Greek, 5601 Lone Tree Way, opened in 2021. It is a fast casual Greek franchise that offers Greek froyo.

Closed Froyo Shops

• iYogurt, 6560 Lone Tree Wy, opened in 2010 and closed in 2024. It was a self-serve froyo shop that also offered gelato and boba drinks.
• TCBY, 4431 Balfour Rd, was open a long time ago, but I’m not sure when.
• Yogurt Jungle, 761 2nd St, was a froyo shop that opened in 2010 and closed in 2012.
• Yogurt Pizazz, 3860 Balfour Rd, was a self-serve froyo shop that opened in 2009 and closed in 2023. This was their first location.
• Yogurt Pizazz, 2455 Sand Creek Rd, was the second location. It opened in 2010 and closed in 2020.
• Yogurtland, 5411 Lone Tree Way Ste 130, opened in 2017 and closed in September 2022. It changed ownership before closing.

Did I miss any froyo shops? If so, let me know.

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Painful California Froyo Shop Closures in 2024

Yogurt Farms Snoopy

Fro-yo girl here. Before the year ends, I’d like to recognize a few froyo shops that closed this year that deserve a few words.

Yogurt Farms, 1224 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401

This one really hurts. Yogurt Farms opened in 1982 across the street from Santa Rosa High School. It remained family-owned and operated. There was a huge Snoopy statue in front because Charles Schulz lived in Santa Rosa. Charles Schulz probably was a Yogurt Farms fan? Unless he didn't like froyo. Yogurt Farms was counter-serve and very much old school. I visited back in 2009.

Apizza & Loving Cup, 2043 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94115

This was the first apizza location to open back in 2019. Apizza was the new concept from the founder of La Boulangerie and owner of Loving Cup. This location also had Loving Cup froyo, mixed with the add-ins of your choice, and hand-churned to order. Apizza closed on Fillmore (Pacific Heights), but added the pizza concept to Loving Cup on Divisadero in San Francisco and in Greenbrae.

iYogurt, 6560 Lone Tree Way Brentwood, CA 94513

iYogurt wasn’t the first self-serve froyo shop in Brentwood, but I think it lasted the longest. It opened in 2010. Iyogurt also had gelato.

Pinkberry, 540 W Stuart Ave Ste 110/B Redlands, CA 92374

Pinkberry opened in Redlands in 2021. There are so few Pinkberry branches left that every closure hurts.

The Yogurt Farms closure hurts the most. Does anyone know what happened to the Snoopy holding a froyo cone statue?

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.