Kalamazoo/ Portage Yogurt Shop

There is a new yogurt shop in the Kalamazoo/ Portage area of Michigan called White Velvet. I must say I must give them props for coming out with a very creative name. I am pleased it doesn't sound like every other new yogurt place opening (with names including the likes of fresh..., berry..., etc.). I have a friend in Kalamazoo who will be trying it and reporting back to me.

The Red Mango in Glenview is NOW OPEN! I went there tonight and today is the first day they are open. Yayyy!! It's attached to a bakery, which I think is unique to Red Mango, but who cares! :)

Carmel Indiana, Fro Yo Capital of the Hoosier state!

It seems that Carmel Indiana seems to be the hotspot of newly opened/ soon to be opened froyo places. It's a wealthy community near Indianapolis. How do I know this? When I was in high school marching band, during a competition weekend we stopped at Carmel H.S. for a rehearsal. I remember that the school had a planetarium in it. A PLANETARIUM...

I guess that means if you went to a high school that had any obscure facilities in it and are a froyo lover, then you're in luck. If you're like most of us who went to a ghetto-fied place with words carved into the old desks, then fro yo is going to take much longer to open near us. That's my foolproof formula and I'm stickin' to it, damn it! What other yuppified locales do you think would be good for Fro yo stores around the midwest? You know that store owners/ company CEO's secretly troll this blog like sharks hoping for tips about the midwest froyo demographic, so let's give it to them!

Anyways, the Red Mango in Glenview, IL is supposedly opening today, which is within a reasonable drive where I won't be wasting more gas than is coming out of the broken BP pipe to get fro yo. I emailed the PR person for Menchies to find out and supposedly they are still planning on opening, despite Northbrook Court claiming they've backed out of their lease. I think the Menchies plans on leaving it on their website till they make a decision, but their movement as a company seems extremely slow and/or disorganized due to the many "coming soon!" stores i've seen on their website for a very very VERY long time. I hope that they aren't going bankrupt!