Choices Yogurt Bar

Honestly — the worst «yogurt experience» one could imagine. Filthy environment. Cheapo décor. Disinterested employees. Yuck — stay away.

Well, obviously my other Unilocalers got the ambiance down perfectly, what they didn’t catch was the con. First of all, when I used to work a local chain grocery store (unmentioned, so I don’t digress too much) I was a cashier and before those automated scales for your salad bar purchases, us cashiers had to do it for you… we were pounded into your head about tare weights. From what I remember it was some kind of law you couldn’t weigh packaging. Now, please note, I’m not any sorta professional on this and have done absolutely no research, but I asked the owner twice as he was texting on his phone about the tare weight of my 16 oz frozen yogurt container, and he ignored me in his PINK not salmon colored shirt and snake skin boots with the personality of cardboard. Not once but at least FIVE times this man blew off me and the two kids I brought in there for ice cream — COLD STONE STAYS PACKED FOR A REASON!
First of all, Cold Stone does not sell by the ounce, and then only gives you two choices for a cup — 16 oz or 24 oz. (AND THEY ALWAYS SAY, «WELCOME TO COLD STONE!!» :-)) WOW! Talk about pushy. How are you really supposed to judge an oz there? Then, the toppings bar… tell your kids the heavier the toppings the more it will weigh 700 times, do you think they listen? No, they see a toppings bar.
Then they weigh them all at the same time. Now how EXACTLY is that possible to discern .45 cents/​ounce? I’m not a math major, but I can see logic when it’s smacking me in the face, and unfortunately there’s no logic in ANY of this.
The owner was flippant and rude, to not just me and my kids, but to his employees. Even if I did enjoy their yogurt, I had already made up my mind, I wasn’t going back by the way the owner had acted while we were checking out. My teenage girls were being teenage girls, so they wanted pictures of their first Sundaes, which he has a video scrolling above the camera, you’d think he’d understand this, instead he was being impatient and rude so a very chipper young lady came over and took over our order and finished checking us out while he sat on the couch texting until his friend came and they talked about how he was going to fix up the place even more behind the counter… add more electronics I suppose. I’m not sure.
The place was closing, but none of us knew the time and our movie was starting, so we asked him what time it was as he walked over and flipped a switch, the most he did while we were there to work up a sweat, and he sarcastically said, 11:01 pm. We got to the car and it was like 10:58, but whatever. everybody’s clocks are set differently. I guess if he wanted people out on time, he’d take the cold and uninviting décor and make it more uninviting by adding a few clocks around the place and set them ten minutes fast! :p lol.
Oh yea — one last thing, I brought two girls with me — one is 4’9 and barely a size 1 the other is 5 ft and a size 10, I’m 5’1″ a plus size girl, and none of us– not a single one, found those ergonomic art-​deco chairs the least bit comfortable. Just fyi… save your money for Cold Stone cause I don’t know how many oz’s each of us got, but we could have gotten double the ice cream, make that triple for the about the same price (9.01)!

Open cold uninviting deco round out this frozen yogurt bar, the prices are like everyone else and the have the same flavors as everyone has. The machines may be mis-​calibrated as the yogurt spurts from the machines and has a long slow pull. The additions bar is smaller than the majority of their peers, leaving the place feeling open and cold. The cool colors and black are posh and have no character to them, if you want yogurt go to one of these near you or if there isn’t, one it will do. I hound Lula’s Frozen Yogurt to be the best.

I really didn’t think it was possible to have to give one star to a self-​serve frozen yogurt place but Choices has earned theirs. A few months ago I purchased a Groupon for $ 10 worth of frozen yogurt from Choices. Yesterday I finally went with a friend to cash the Groupon in. Overall the experience was very well described by «Eek! Methinks not.» I started at the frozen yogurt wall where they had all of the standard flavors but nothing really stand out. I opted for strawberry banana and cheesecake. I noticed that when I pulled the lever liquid came out before yogurt (more than usual at fro-​yo places). I wondered if the machines were not working correctly. I then checked out the dry toppings and they only had about 4 – 5 to choose from. Disappointing. I headed over to the bar of cold toppings. They had quite a few there but nothing was really stand out (for an amazing toppings bar I would suggest checking out Lula’s in the Highlands). I opted for cheesecake bits and white chocolate chips. I then tried to put some Ghirardelli white chocolate sauce on top but instead of actually coming out of the bottle as sauce it was this clear gel which tasted rancid. When I tasted the yogurt, the strawberry banana had a horribly overwhelming artifical flavor like cheap candy. I’ve also had much better cheesecake yogurts elsewhere. This one was weak and didn’t taste like cheesecake. I actually threw away the cup of fro-​yo without finishing it because it tasted so bad. The frozen yogurt market is starting to get saturated here in Louisville so if this place expects to survive they better bring their yogurt and toppings up to par quickly!