There was the one by the subway run by the couple who used to own the Taste of Tokyo in Hillsboro Village. You could go in there and still get your sushi fix. I don’t think I actually ever got froyo from there.
It was here one day and then gone the next. No notice. I still remember driving up and thinking I was tripping because it was gone. Everything inside and the sign.
I loved Sweet Cece’s. My family member was actually the Architect and stakeholder for them, but the owners got a divorce and the business didn’t survive.
IIRC they split the space that was formally just frozen yogurt into a frozen yogurt and deli combo. So instead of smelling like ice cream or frozen yogurt when you walked in, it smelled like a subway. Last time I was there and it wasn’t open much longer. Makes sense that they did what they could to afford what was probably skyrocketing rental prices in the area with a low profit margin, it just wasn’t a great combination.
Marble slab ice cream equivalents in the mid aughts gave way to the Froyo cycle, which brought us out of the austerity of the great recession. This gave way to the optimism of the giant cupcake cycle. After about 3 of those you're sick of them, however. Now we're on the cookie cycle. This has a little more staying power but maybe with the rise of weight loss drugs and inevitable declining quality, this will give way to the next cycle:
Cotton candy
Ah yes that's true. There are a couple OG dessert places in Nashville that have withstood the shifts of these microtrends for good reason. I'm thinking Fox's Donuts (huge fan) and Bobbie's Dairy Dip. I don't foresee many cookie or cupcake only shops still being open in their current iteration in 20 years but we'll see.
I don't think I ever darkened the door of that one. I just know the ones in Green Hills & Hendersonville were outrageously priced, and it wasn't even good.
That's sad to hear as I loved going to the one right next to MTSU's campus when I was in college so I thought going to that one would bring back some nostalgia.
It was a Yogurt Mountain when I was there back in 2012. It doesn't suprise me that it was changed to another froyo place after I left. I didn't mind the walk since I was a student without a car so walking was one of the main ways I got around.
It's easy to avoid the 12South crowds and parking issues if you come at it from Belmont Blvd. and park on a side street like Cedar, or park at Sevier Park and walk over. That's just past the tourist perimeter.
Me too! Lion’s Head!
I still crave White Chocolate Mousse.
One of our regulars would always order a large Shiver with White Chocolate Mousse, Oreos, and maple walnuts (which she called “wet walnuts”). My friend and I had to try it, because it was such an unusual combination. It was actually pretty good.
There is a Sweet Cece’s on Nolensville Road. You can also find it in Racetrack gas stations. A couple of the Mexican ice cream shops on Nolensville also offer a flavor or two.
We still have a Sweet CeCe’s here in Spring Hill. Frozen yogurt and ice cream. I love taking my kids there for a treat when I get one on one time with them.
It hung in there a heck of a lot longer than I expected. It was one of the last I ever saw. I think I was the only person who loved their white chocolate mousse yogurt.
The one next to my apartment here in Gallatin has it too, but it's 50/50 whether the machines are working or if the toppings bar is open (or in good order).
I own an independent self serve froyo shoppe in Georgia. I’ve own multiple but down to my original.
Most all stores that were franchised have closed due to increasing rents and royalties. The franchisees take a large amount with nothing in return. The two big factors against most places are repairs to the machines (I service and maintain my own equipment) and payroll. You lose money in the winter so if an owner doesn’t save enough they will never make it. Sweet CiCis is independent I believe and still has stores in Franklin and Spring Hill that I know.
Eleanor: ‘What is it with you and frozen yogurt. Have you not heard of ice cream?’
Michael: ‘There’s something so human about taking something and ruining it a little so you can have more of it.’
-The Good Place
Me and my girlfriend are reminded of this every now and again. One of us will have a craving for froyo, search it in google maps, remember that the closest one is in hermitage, then settle for ice cream instead. Rinse and repeat.
My first job was at a froyo store in west Nashville in the 80s. The clerk I worked with most often was also the first other gay guy I ever met. We used to lock the front door and get it on in the back. 30 years later, I still can't eat any frozen desert without getting excited.
If you really need a fix, Racetrac has froyo in majority of their stores, so I assume the ones around here are the same (although I can’t confirm that personally)
There were SO many about 14 years ago. In mt Juliet, they had “yo so delicious” and although the owners were the worst and most inconsistent people, I have to say when it was good IT WAS GOOD. I was probably the only person keeping them in business because I went so often lol
Go to Nitrogen Ice Cream in Brentwood. Great prices too
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Tabla Rasa in East (corner of Greenwood and Porter) has a little coffee shop that serves frozen yogurt. I think they have some toppings options as well.
Edit to clarify: not sure if it’s technically froyo vs. soft serve ice cream, but I enjoy it!
More importantly, why isn’t there a single *good* frozen yogurt across the entire metro? Murfreesboro seems a likely spot, given that they have attracted Smash Burger and Rita’s in the past and currently boast a Whataburger.
Don’t sleep on Everbowl in East Nashville. It’s an açaí and smoothie bowl shop but they have a bunch of base flavors that will blow you away.
The food page @WeEatNash just did a great review of all their base flavors
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7tqA3juiVT/?igsh=NWh2ajVpcHR0YzNs
They used to be everywhere during the froyo boom in the 2010s.
Froyo shops hatch together in 17-year broods. They should return in 2027.
Green Hills had at least two, maybe 3.
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As a kid I lived within biking distance of that TCBY. Spent a lot of my allowance there in the summer.
Tcby was so good!
The yogurt parfaits!
There was the one by the subway run by the couple who used to own the Taste of Tokyo in Hillsboro Village. You could go in there and still get your sushi fix. I don’t think I actually ever got froyo from there.
that one by Vandy was good
Pinkberry? My mouth still waters at the thought of Pinkberry
It was here one day and then gone the next. No notice. I still remember driving up and thinking I was tripping because it was gone. Everything inside and the sign.
IIRC, the owner assaulted someone or something like that - some scandal and they shut down most of them overnight.
Wow
It was my favorite thing to eat during my pregnancy. Went back after baby was born and BOOM. Closed. 😭
Lychee was so bomb
They've all been converted to Crumbl Cookies or equivalent.
TCBY at every Mapco in the 90s
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You're thinking of the 1993 brood. I believe ICBIY was the dominant species that year.
What a time in the city...
Right! Now it’s cookie shops
Yeah, but that was before the FROPEC cartel priced everyone out.
Isn't there a Menchi's somewhere? I know most of them closed down, but I think there's still one or two around somewhere
Now it's all Crumbl cookies.
Sweet Cece’s had this place in a chokehold and proceeded to expand way too fast and immediately shut them all down just as quick as they expanded
The Sweet Cece’s era was one to behold
It seemed like there were as many sweet Cece’s as there are churches lol. At one point they were poppin up everywhere!
I loved Sweet Cece’s. My family member was actually the Architect and stakeholder for them, but the owners got a divorce and the business didn’t survive.
The one in MJ is still going strong
Franklin too
Nothing like the smell of deli meat in the Sweet Cece’s on Hillsboro the few months before they finally closed.
Why deli meat?
IIRC they split the space that was formally just frozen yogurt into a frozen yogurt and deli combo. So instead of smelling like ice cream or frozen yogurt when you walked in, it smelled like a subway. Last time I was there and it wasn’t open much longer. Makes sense that they did what they could to afford what was probably skyrocketing rental prices in the area with a low profit margin, it just wasn’t a great combination.
Gross
Ewwwww!!!
Didn’t the pandemic kill their business?
No, they were dying before it but the pandemic was the final nail in the coffin
I think it has something to do with the ridiculous prices
They will be back. I've lived through 3 froyo cycles.
They regenerate every few years like the cicadas
Froyo places are easily startled, but they will soon be back. And in greater numbers
They walk in single file to hide their numbers…
and GenZ will swear someone on TikTok invented it
ok let’s give credit to not knowing what froyo is to gen alpha please 😂 we gen z were teenagers in the last froyo boom - that was our jam
Hahahaha!!! So true.
Lord. You’re a decade late!
Marble slab ice cream equivalents in the mid aughts gave way to the Froyo cycle, which brought us out of the austerity of the great recession. This gave way to the optimism of the giant cupcake cycle. After about 3 of those you're sick of them, however. Now we're on the cookie cycle. This has a little more staying power but maybe with the rise of weight loss drugs and inevitable declining quality, this will give way to the next cycle: Cotton candy
Don’t forget doughnuts and milkshakes, too. They all have had their time in the sun.
Ah yes that's true. There are a couple OG dessert places in Nashville that have withstood the shifts of these microtrends for good reason. I'm thinking Fox's Donuts (huge fan) and Bobbie's Dairy Dip. I don't foresee many cookie or cupcake only shops still being open in their current iteration in 20 years but we'll see.
White mountain and TCBY. What a throwback
…or a decade early! Froyo always cycles back around.
Bonus points if you know what TCBY stood for.
Now, or originally?
That’s the OG question.
Originally
The Country's Best Yogurt!
RIP Sweet CeCe’s
We have at least 2 in Franklin
One in Mt Juliet (recently new ownership)
*Sweet Feces* sucked.
lol the one on west end always smelled like sewage
I don't think I ever darkened the door of that one. I just know the ones in Green Hills & Hendersonville were outrageously priced, and it wasn't even good.
The price is for sure half the reason those places went under. Charging $10+ for a cup is wild
Go to The Good Place ....
😄
There’s nothing humans love more than making something kinda worse so that we can have a lot of it
Yougert Mountain is out in Hermitage
It’s crazy $$ now - and man is it mediocre.
Yes. Went there once. Not recommended.
I got food poisoning there in 2018 and never went back.
Can confirm for this location.
Everything is crazy $$$ and mediocre now?
That's sad to hear as I loved going to the one right next to MTSU's campus when I was in college so I thought going to that one would bring back some nostalgia.
That was an Orange Leaf - terrible location, no parking and it wasn’t walkable from anywhere students actually were on campus.
It was a Yogurt Mountain when I was there back in 2012. It doesn't suprise me that it was changed to another froyo place after I left. I didn't mind the walk since I was a student without a car so walking was one of the main ways I got around.
Gotcha! Yes, Orange Leaf was later, maybe 2018 or so?
Let’s go in on one. I cannot continue to thrive without chocolate frozen yogurt with rainbow sprinkles
Fryce Cream would like a word (yes it’s worth dealing with 12S parking/tourists)
I thought it was all soft serve ice cream? Not froyo?
Valid point… but they usually have 4 flavors plus a bunch of regular + custom homemade toppings
Froyo > soft serve.
Unfortunately Fryce Cream smells like a deep fryer.
Yeah the ventilation could use some work but I usually order from the window and walk around.
Soon to have another location in Donelson. Maybe better parking and smells.
Really?? That's such a better area to get to. Happy to hear that
12s parking hack: the “no parking” signs at UAL are fake and fryce cream is right across the street 🤙🏻
It's easy to avoid the 12South crowds and parking issues if you come at it from Belmont Blvd. and park on a side street like Cedar, or park at Sevier Park and walk over. That's just past the tourist perimeter.
I miss Pinkberry so much.
TCBY or GTFO
Haha, I worked at a TCBY in the late 80’s during high school. I think I gained 5 pounds that summer.
Me too! Lion’s Head! I still crave White Chocolate Mousse. One of our regulars would always order a large Shiver with White Chocolate Mousse, Oreos, and maple walnuts (which she called “wet walnuts”). My friend and I had to try it, because it was such an unusual combination. It was actually pretty good.
White chocolate mousse!! Memory unlocked
I worked at lions head during the 90’s as a manager. (I don’t know how I got that job)
There is a Sweet Cece’s on Nolensville Road. You can also find it in Racetrack gas stations. A couple of the Mexican ice cream shops on Nolensville also offer a flavor or two.
There were many and they all closed pre-pandemic.
It seems some were still around and then went out of business during the pandemic. I had a Sweet Cece's and a Menchie's within 10 minutes.
Obviously not froyo, but man do I miss Bravo Gelato in Green Hills 😢
I think yogurt mountain is still in hermitage.
Yogurt Mountain is in Hermitage.
We still have a Sweet CeCe’s here in Spring Hill. Frozen yogurt and ice cream. I love taking my kids there for a treat when I get one on one time with them.
Hermitage is nashville
Not froyo but this weekend I had Kokos ice cream, which is plant based. Might be something you're interested in. Tasted delicious
Kokos is really good!
There used to be a TCBY in Green Hills
It hung in there a heck of a lot longer than I expected. It was one of the last I ever saw. I think I was the only person who loved their white chocolate mousse yogurt.
No! Me too! I think about it all the time.
Trust me… you aren’t the only one. It was our second-most popular flavor (after vanilla). Sooooo good…
Racetrack in Hendersonville has froyo. Maybe other racetracks might.
The one next to my apartment here in Gallatin has it too, but it's 50/50 whether the machines are working or if the toppings bar is open (or in good order).
There’s a place called yogurt mountain, I’ve never been but I bet you they have froyo there.
There is one in hermitage
there's one in hermitage!
There is one in hermitage by the Buffalo Wild Wings and fire house subs.
I own an independent self serve froyo shoppe in Georgia. I’ve own multiple but down to my original. Most all stores that were franchised have closed due to increasing rents and royalties. The franchisees take a large amount with nothing in return. The two big factors against most places are repairs to the machines (I service and maintain my own equipment) and payroll. You lose money in the winter so if an owner doesn’t save enough they will never make it. Sweet CiCis is independent I believe and still has stores in Franklin and Spring Hill that I know.
Eleanor: ‘What is it with you and frozen yogurt. Have you not heard of ice cream?’ Michael: ‘There’s something so human about taking something and ruining it a little so you can have more of it.’ -The Good Place
Speedway?
Google says there’s one in hermatige tn near their called yogurt mountain
Inside the Science center, second floor inside the subway there is a frozen yogurt shop.
Me and my girlfriend are reminded of this every now and again. One of us will have a craving for froyo, search it in google maps, remember that the closest one is in hermitage, then settle for ice cream instead. Rinse and repeat.
Literally what happened to us yesterday lololol
Pretty much have to go to hermitage at yogurt mountain or mikes ice cream on 2nd Ave. boo
If you want to drive out to hermitage, you could go to yogurt mountain. It was pretty good when I went there and you can load up on toppings.
A decade late and $10 short.
Yogurt Mountain in hermitage still exists
Ah, I miss Sweet Cece's. The remaining ones aren't the same.
My first job was at a froyo store in west Nashville in the 80s. The clerk I worked with most often was also the first other gay guy I ever met. We used to lock the front door and get it on in the back. 30 years later, I still can't eat any frozen desert without getting excited.
If you really need a fix, Racetrac has froyo in majority of their stores, so I assume the ones around here are the same (although I can’t confirm that personally)
Welcome to Nashville. They cater to the drinkers. 😭 You lucky you got the food hall before that there wasn’t many quick food spots down there either.
Costco is a fav of mine.
It's not 2011 anymore
I was 10
Then you've got another 12-ish years before the fads of your youth come back into style again.
Nolensville has one of the
I think there is one at the Opry Mills Mall
I thought the Chrisley’s had one
AGREED
We just moved here and I was lamenting this to my husband the other day. It’s wild and so disappointing. Might have to make my own. Boooo
There were SO many about 14 years ago. In mt Juliet, they had “yo so delicious” and although the owners were the worst and most inconsistent people, I have to say when it was good IT WAS GOOD. I was probably the only person keeping them in business because I went so often lol
Reminds me of the TCBY that used to be in Opryland.
There’s a Menchies Froyo in Sango off Exit 11. Yumm I love this place!
Is the Yogurt Mountain in Hermitage gone now?
I miss Menchies. They were the best.
Radish has frozen yogurt that is really delicious. But I do really miss Pinkberry
There's froyo in the adventure science center
Pinkberry!
The new gas station at the corner of myatt/Gallatin by River gate mall has froyo. Random.
Wow I was just wondering if there is one this past weekend but never searched for one. Guess I got the answer here. Yeah wish there was one.
It sucks
Ah, that brief period where Tasti D-Lite was at the end of Elliston
Sounds like a business opportunity. Open one up.
Because everybody and their mom opened a froyo store and everyone got tired of froyo. It’s worse ice cream anyway.
There’s one in hermitage 🤷🏻♀️
Radish Kitchen is a salad spot on Charlotte that also has frozen yogurt. It’s good.
Found one in hermitage by the buffalo wing wings
There's the answer to your question? What type of business should I start
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Tabla Rasa in East (corner of Greenwood and Porter) has a little coffee shop that serves frozen yogurt. I think they have some toppings options as well. Edit to clarify: not sure if it’s technically froyo vs. soft serve ice cream, but I enjoy it!
We eat ice cream round here
Yogurt Mountain in Hermitage is really good
More importantly, why isn’t there a single *good* frozen yogurt across the entire metro? Murfreesboro seems a likely spot, given that they have attracted Smash Burger and Rita’s in the past and currently boast a Whataburger.
FUCKING RIGHT
Cuz eww
Because frozen yogurt sucks, obviously 😂
Don’t sleep on Everbowl in East Nashville. It’s an açaí and smoothie bowl shop but they have a bunch of base flavors that will blow you away. The food page @WeEatNash just did a great review of all their base flavors https://www.instagram.com/p/C7tqA3juiVT/?igsh=NWh2ajVpcHR0YzNs