PINKBERRY VANQUISHED IN FROYO WARS
Posted on January 25, 2015 at 8:49 pm by West Sider
Years later, the boy would ask him “Grandpa, were you there for the Froyo Wars?”
“Yes, little Billy, I was there.”
“What was it like?”
“Twas a long time ago, after the Cupcake Wars but before the famous Battle of French Toast. Pinkberry on Amsterdam between 79th and 80th fought valiantly, they used all the fresh-cut fruit and chocolate toppings they could muster. But the Yogurtland on the corner of 80th and Amsterdam overpowered them. No one can resist a pump-your-own fro-yo dispenser. The end was swift. It was a cold and unforgiving January and nobody in their right mind was eating fro-yo anyway.”
Thanks to Spence, Carrie, Natalia and Christine for the tips.
Oh no! I loved Pinkberry.So delicious.
Where can one enlist?
Wow, only 2-3 days ago I was walking by the place and got this dark and shabby vibe. There were no patrons as usual, and I thought it was only a matter of time…
There have been many Pinkberrys closing in the last week. I think the company might go bankrupt.
Was impressed that Pinkberry was used as a collection centre for NY CaresDecember coat donations and could see that many took advantage of their kind offer.
loved them – they were by far the best of the bunch. Only issue was that you couldn’t purchase just a little bit – had to get a big cup, which was $$$.
Whoever has the most sugar wins.
When I have to spend almost $7 for the smallest cup with extra cost add ons like Nutella, its too damn expensive.
It appears that there is quite a bit of turnover once chains replace longstanding small/neighborhood/family stores/businesses.
Pinkberry is franchised. So in a sense it is a mom and pop too. It just has the rights to use a brand name and processes.
Could be. In many places in US, franchise owners are small business owners.
But in Manhattan these days, quite a few franchises are owned by private equity groups or very wealthy (former financial services) business owners.
and you know this how ,Lisa?
please stop trying to make class warfare because I yogurt store closed.
I hope Yogurtland doesn’t close. Love them, and really like being able to get just the amount I want and and the toppings I want as well.
Respectfully,a bit of pontification about Pinkberry…due to the snow today, my partner’s employer let its well-paid staff to leave at 1 today and my employer at 3. We had pretty easy commutes to our Manhattan home.
In contrast, at 3:45 Pinkberry – a non-essential service – was open on 70th Street. No customers, just low-paid employees (who likely have long commutes home). Could Pinkberry not have found any heart to close the store and allow employees to get home?
Red Mango is getting with the program and building some roll-your-own locations. I don’t think that Pinkberry ever did that.
Impossibly high rents will make it very difficult for bussinesses to survive in Manhattan. Landlords’ greed is becoming a disease.
For those who need a little refresher on Economics 101, specifically how a market economy works. Thank you Investopedia.
“Supply and demand is perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy.
Demand refers to how much (quantity) of a product or service is desired by buyers. The quantity demanded is the amount of a product people are willing to buy at a certain price; the relationship between price and quantity demanded is known as the demand relationship.
Supply represents how much the market can offer. The quantity supplied refers to the amount of a certain good producers are willing to supply when receiving a certain price.
The correlation between price and how much of a good or service is supplied to the market is known as the supply relationship.”
In NYC, and UWS in particular:
Rule 1: its always the landlord’s fault.
Rule 2: See Rule number 1.
Agreed Webot.
Yet same people that cry about greedy landlords have no problem using the same market economy when negotiating a higher salary, bonus, or raise for THEMSELVES at their places of employment.
I wonder if anyone here has heard that Gene Sheppard tale of the great ice cream war.