This year’s Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo (Western Food Expo) was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on August 25-27, 2019. This year’s expo was co-located with two other shows, Coffee Fest and the Healthy Food Expo. The show is sponsored by the California Restaurant Association and attended by over 9,000 industry professionals. The… Read more »
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Summit Premium Launches New Beyond Dairy® Oat Milk and Almond Milk Soft Serve Varieties to Address Growing Consumer Demand for Plant-Based Food
Summit Premium, a brand of Socially Responsible Food Group, Inc. (SR Food Group) and the leader in the non-dairy soft serve category, has debuted four new plant-based, Beyond Dairy® varieties: Summit Premium Non-Dairy Oat Milk, Strawberry Oat Milk, Chocolate Almond Milk, and Cookies N Cream Almond Milk Non-Dairy Soft Serve and Shake Mix. The innovation… Read more »
Summer 2019 Froyo Flavors & Trends
Since summer is the prime season for frozen yogurt, we wanted to look at summer flavor trends. Like previous summers, frozen yogurt shops kept things light and fruity with an abundance of new sorbet flavors. Flavors featuring branded ingredients like OREO, Sour Patch Kids, and HI-CHEW, and non-dairy options were also popular. Earlier non-dairy offerings… Read more »
Reliant Foodservice 2019 Product Expo Recap
Reliant Foodservice held its annual product show at the Anaheim Hilton on August 10, 2019. Reliant Foodservice is a leading distributor of products for the frozen yogurt, juice and smoothie, and specialty coffee retailers on the West Coast. The product show featured 80 manufacturers. In response to the increasing demand for healthy, transparent, and innovative… Read more »
Tips for Drawing Groups to Your Frozen Yogurt Shop
Our 2018 National Frozen Yogurt Consumer Survey posed the following question, “When you go to a frozen yogurt shop, how often do you go with others?” Almost half the respondents (47%) reported getting froyo with someone else over 75% of the time. Compare that figure with the 18% who go to get a froyo with… Read more »
IFYA Turns Six
We just turned six years old. That’s six years of supporting the frozen yogurt industry by providing advice to current and prospective froyo shop owners, tracking news and trends, and offering tools, resources, and member discounts. Speaking of members, our members can save hundreds or even thousands of dollars on essentials for their frozen yogurt… Read more »
Now Trending: Alcohol-Infused and Inspired Frozen Desserts and Drinks
From boozy slushies to adult milkshakes, alcohol-infused frozen desserts and beverages are a big hit on the tradeshow circuit this year. Leading soft serve machine manufacturers, including Electro Freeze, Spaceman USA, and Taylor Company, have been offering spiked beverages and desserts from their tradeshow booths. Just this year, Taylor introduced the Zamboozy, a new frozen… Read more »
New IFYA Summer Froyo Photo Contest for Froyo Fans, Win Free Froyo
Frozen yogurt fans, show us your best summer froyo pics on Instagram starting today. One lucky winner will receive a delivery of 4 pints of Yoga-urt’s organic, plant-based, kosher, gluten-free, soy-free, probiotic frozen yogurt delivered to your home. Yoga-urt, with locations in Glendale, CA and Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA, is the newest Swirl of… Read more »
Two Yoga-urt Locations Earn Three Swirls from IFYA’s Swirl of Honor Program
We are proud to welcome our newest member, Yoga-urt, to the Swirl of HonorTM program. Yoga-urt opened its first retail location in Glendale’s health conscious Kenneth Village in July 2015, and opened a second retail location in Echo Park in June 2019. Both locations earned three swirls, the maximum possible number of swirls, based on… Read more »
The Consumer Psychology of Froyo Shop Pricing
As frozen yogurt prices rise, an increasing number of frozen yogurt shops are offering flat rate pricing, either on a temporary basis or on a permanent basis. To understand the impact of this pricing model change, we consider how consumer behavior might change. To do this, it’s important to consider the interplay between consumer attitudes,… Read more »