Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt

After having having tried both red mango and orange leaf, I have to say I prefer red mango. This orange leaf seems pretty run down, with the dispensers looking yucky and old. Flavor wise, red mango offered more fruity flavored and tasted more refreshing.

3.5 stars
I really like orange leaf in terms of location and the yogurt itself is good. They have AWESOME flavors (birthday cake!).
However, I really dislike their system of sampling the flavors. The employee comes out from behind the counter and fills up the sample cup with your flavor choice. You taste the sample while they awkwardly stand there and watch you. Then you repeat 3 – 4 more times. Uhhhh okay. Especially if the place is busy, it gets tiresome to wait for the worker to get your samples.
The moral of the story: good yogurt. But PLEASE, just give people their own sample cups.

Decent service and food/​etc. Personally i find it too pricey though. Paid around ten bucks for myself. Would rather go to cold stone for 5 to 7 bucks.

We stopped in here for an after dinner treat on a cold Wednesday evening in February. The place was very clean and there were only a few other customers inside.
I usually decide if I want something fruity or something chocolaty. If I’m craving fruity then I’m getting fruit-​flavored frozen yogurt and burying it in fresh fruit toppings. If I’m doing the chocolate thing then it’s chocolate or fudge ice cream and I bury it in crushed candy bar toppings. My daughter usually gets vanilla, then insists she doesn’t want any toppings, but when we sit down proceeds to eat everyone else’s frozen yogurt. So, I’ve learned to load my cup up accordingly and barely put anything in her’s to compensate.
Service was friendly. It’s self-​serve, so the only real interaction with employees is when you’re weighing your frozen yogurt cups and paying.
The FroYo craze really hit hard about 5 years ago when they started springing up all over the place. They’re the newest fad in chain restaurants.
I’ve been to several of these FroYo paces: CherryBerry, Orange Leaf, Red Mango, Peachwave… (anyone else notice the naming convention in the FroYo world?) They’re all clones of each other (Though, I suppose a FroYo zealot would scream about who was first). They all offer a variety of frozen yogurt flavors, a variety of toppings with everything from crushed Oreos to gummy bears, a choice of big or small container to put it in, priced per ounce, most have a loyalty rewards program, and they’re all self-​serve. The only thing that really changes from one FroYo chain to the next is the color scheme. Outside of that, they’re all the same right down to the layout and choice in furniture styles. I’m too lazy to research it, but I think TCBY may have actually been the first as they’ve been around for 30+ years. Strangely, they seem to have the least presence these days.
They are a lot of fun to go to. Kids love it. If you’re going to go out for ice cream then I would put FroYo at the top of the list. This particular location of this particular chain is a great choice, but as I mentioned: They’re all pretty much the same.

This place has a magical way of making me it’s mutant fiend, craving for more… every day I drive past it. It’s, honestly, a struggle to drive past it and not consider stopping in for a pail of some sort of delectable frozen yogurt amalgamation topped with everything that used to be a candy bar, cookie or cake. The ability to walk in and go all mad scientist on this place, cackling at other patrons as you create some sort of mouth bound abomination, almost yields a childlike sense of bliss because you know you should probably show some restraint for the your belt line but shut up brain.
With a good assortment of flavors to choose from and a pretty stocked topping area, it’s easy to turn common sense off for a few minutes and create something that will make you eat till you hate how you look. I mean… it’s fro-​yo so it’s sorta health conscious but after I top with cheesecake bits, Oreo bits, cookie dough bits, all the candy bars and mallows… well…shut up brain… I earned this. The thing is that bliss will catch up to your wallet. They charge by weight and that number seems to blow up rather quick. I could gripe that it may seem expensive, but I’m lazy.
My real gripe is, having lived there for the summer, is the slow rotation of flavors. Sure they’d introduce a new flavor or two every once in a blue moon, but for the most part, I was dealing with the same flavors on the great Wall-​o-​gurt for most visits. A little more change, more often couldn’t hurt.
Aside from that and, what could be a minor issue in price, I can easily tell you to gorge yourself in this place… eat with no regard and zero shame!!! Hoo-​sah!!! Eat up, Minions!!!

Really good FRO-​YO, had a great selection, cashiers were friendly and the atmosphere inside was vibrant. There weren’t any «taste test» spoons or tiny cups, which was a bit irritating.
I loaded up on peanut butter flavor, birthday cake flavor and the cookie dough with a topping. For my friend and I our totals came to a little over $ 7.00.
We sat inside at the table and chairs, and shockingly they weren’t uncomfortable. My friends about 6’2 and I’m 5’9. He and I sat there for an hour just talking and taking in the constant traffic.
Great place to stop in —
Plethora of parking —
Located a Willy Mays throw away from UNO & Aksarben —
Extremely accessible.
I will be back!

Great FroYo that tastes more like ice cream!
I’ve been here a few times with my kids.
We love the generous sample cups.
We love the smiling staff that provides them.
We love the cute orange spoons.
I love the OunceBack card.
And most of all, we love the FroYo.
After trying some other colored, fruit-​named Fro Yo places in strip malls, I’ve learned that fruit flavored FroYo is a safer choice. Tart fruit is expected. Tart chocolate, not so much. But this place does FroYo right. Cake batter tastes like cake batter, not a sad, sour yogurt version of cake batter. The toppings always seem fresh.
The killer is at the weigh in, seeing that you and your kids just ordered a pound of FroYo.

I LOVE ORANGE LEAF!
During the summer, I must have Froyo from OL at least twice a week to stay fully functioning!
It is very difficult to drive past OL without stopping in… and of course it is just right off 72^nd street so my children can see it and beg as well… which I don’t need to be begged for long.
The Froyo is so creamy and tasty.
I’ve tried Peachwave and Red Mango– Hate them.
OL is the most creamy of them all. OL doesn’t have the artificial after-​taste!
My favorites–
Wedding cake
Bday cake
Brownie
But really all their flavors are good– I don’t like the ones that do not have milk in them tho…

This fro yo is delish and so filling it can count as a meal. I’ve had other frozen yogurt that wasn’t as creamy and flavorful as the ones here. Always a nice treat, I just have to force myself to tasting a smaller portion so I don’t leave miserable.

Best froyo flavors I have found – brownie batter and oatmeal cookie. The oatmeal cookie tasted JUST like an oatmeal cookie, imagine that! I have never seen that flavor anywhere else. Not sure how to compare on toppings or prices as I was too taken aback by the flavors themselves.
Bright orange and green interior. Clean, inviting, good for families with kiddos. My 7 year old niece loved her gummi bear-​chocolate yogurt concoction!
One more thing – the SPOONS! They look like miniature shovels, and I approved.

I went here recently after a trip to Bed Bath and Beyond. It’s actually pretty clean and the staff was nice. It’s a shame it’s in such a hard-​to-​access shopping center. Honestly, I might not have gotten around to going here if I didn’t need some kitchen stuff at BBB.
It’s a chain, so I pretty much knew what I was getting, so this is more of a review of the place itself. Even though it was a hot day and there were a handful of munchkins around, it seemed clean. No sticky floors/​tables/​counters. In a place where you’re serving yourself from a trough of fruit and candy that a zillion other people have potentially touched, this is important to know (at least to me). The staff was nice – the counter person greeted me at the door and chatted with me during my indecisiveness about topics.
Of course five bucks for a bucket of «healthy» yogurt with candy is probably not the best use of my funds, but I’ll definitely come back on another hot day.

Frozen yogurt places are addicting. They draw you in with their shiny strip mall exterior and before you know it you’re holding a pint of ten different fro-​yos mixed together topped off with all kinds of goodies.
Orage Leaf is no exception. The premise is simple. Go to the back and grab a cup then start filling it with all kinds of sugary-​sweet frozen yogurts. It’s set up in two flavor «stations» that pair flavors together (good idea!). For example, chocolate brownie is paired with peanut butter and cheesecake is paired with strawberry. You can pick one or the other at each station, or pull the lever in the middle and have them come out swirled together.
After you’ve gotten your froyo, you head to the toppings buffet to finish things off. Orange Leaf offers typical toppings like fresh fruit to cookie crumbs to sour gummies to sprinkles. From here, the cashier weighs your cup and off you go to enjoy your froyo amidst the bright and funky/​chic interior.
It’s a great place for a date (post-​dinner) or a fun place that families with kids can go to enjoy an evening out.

My first experience of Orange Leaf could have been better. They have a great variety and everything tastes wonderful, but 3 of the 6 of us in my group experienced severe nausea and diarrahea. I called and told one of the workers and they acted like I was crazy.

Be careful — the Passion fruit ice cream gave three of us mild food poisoning last night. None of the other flavors made anyone sick but it was a terrible experience.

They have a great variety here at Orange Leaf and if you want to sample just ask the guy behind the counter! The red velvet is SO good! Lots of fresh toppings and fun toppings for the kids,. Price by weight, and fun couches and chairs to lounge on while you enjoy your froyo. Took the kids for their last day of school and they enjoyed their afternoon snack very much!

I was a huge fan of Red Mango when they first opened which is the main reason I waited so long to give this place a try. I am glad I didn’t wait any longer.
The amount of flavors and the difference in variety I think is much better than Red Mango. My first taste was Caramel and Green Apple, it was nice, but too sweet to eat a whole bowl of. I ended up with a white chocolate strawberry/​cheesecake; brownie batter, and peanut butter/​chocolate. The biggest difference in flavor from Red Mango was the noticeably less tartness. Flavors really popped. I thought later I should go back for peanut butter with green apple.
Environment isn’t much different than Red Mango and nothing really stood out to me toppings wise, but I wasn’t there for that, I was there for the Froyo. One of my favorite things that just makes you smile a little more was the little shovels they have as spoons.
Sorry Red Mango this has taken me away.

This location is the first one I went to try try Orange Leaf. Every day when I pick up my daughter from school, she would ask to go here, so one day, I took her. I tried a not so fancy chocolate and vanilla. I mean, for the first time, I went with what I know, or hoped wouldn’t taste bad :) It was really good! When you go to red mango, when I get chocolate, it doesn’t taste like normal chocolate. It’s sour! But, Orange Leaf’s chocolate actually tastes like chocolate soft serve ice cream! It’s great. I got my normal oreo topping as well, which complemented my chocolate and vanilla frozen yogurt. My daughter on the other hand got snickerdoodle and a whole bunch of toppings that I would probly never try like the mochi those squishy ball things, gummi bears, etc. She was happy with it, do I’m sure she loved it. You know, a kid doesn’t lie! If it tastes bad, she would say it! Love this place! Will definitely go again.

I don’t actually eat frozen yogurt anymore. So, I’ll have to keep this review limited to those things I know about.
First, the seating is interesting and surprisingly comfortable.
Next, the value card deal that Dennis mentions does indeed rock, aside from Bakers, this is probably the only one of these card deals that ever actually saves me any money.
Third, they have a great location with lots of parking.
Finally, and most importantly by far, their staff is awesome. They are friendly, helpful, efficient and unlike some of the other frozen yogurt shops in town, you get the feeling that they are happy to be there.
It also doesn’t hurt that, after picking up some frozen yogurt for the wife — it is easy to find a route from here to my house that goes past a Sonic where I can pick up a $ 2 hot fudge sundae that I will enjoy more than any «froyo» at any price.

Dennis touches on all of the important points… but I hold a special place in my heart because Orange Leaf was the first time I ever experienced froyo (in another city) so that by the time Red Mango arrived on the scene in Omaha I was not totally scared/​overwhelmed.
Orange Leaf seems to cater more to children more than adults, but maybe that’s just because the first one I went to was swarming with a birthday party and all of the seating is 24″ off the floor…
Anyway, I really liked the flavor options. Cotton candy, birthday cake and strawberry/​pineapple twist graced my froyo tub this past weekend along with those magical fruity juice ball things (they have a name, but I’ve since forgotten and who cares anyway?). May be that I just eat a whole bucket of those sometime… because you could if you wanted to.
They practically forced one of the rewards cards on me (1 point per $ 10 spent, and then it’s like a gift card or something). Anyway it was free and I didn’t have to sign anything or give them my name. In exchange I got one of the physically largest key-​ring rewards cards I’ve ever seen, but only time will tell if they accept it on my iPhone instead of the actual physical copy.
Since this is the closest froyo to our place, we’ll definitely be back. Probably more-​so when the weather creeps up into the double digits on a more routine basis.

Dear Omahaians… The Froyo Revolution is starting so it would be wise to prepare!
I have seen the frozen carnage in other cities in California and it could be worse than the Asian Beetle infestation of 2004… Imagine a world, where froyo shops are at every corner, every Wal-​Mart, every Red Box machine… Ok all this food talk is making me hungry so let me get to the point.
Orange Leaf is yet another froyo place to be opened in Omaha and praise jebus it’s right next to wear I work on 72^nd and Pacific! I think that brings the grand total of froyo places to seven and if Omaha follows the trends of bigger cities, I imagine that number will grow exponentially to the point where they will tear down parking lots to make room for these self-​serve sweetness in a cup establishments.
OL (let’s start a trend here) has a whopping 16 flavors beating all other places in Omaha… but the real question is: Quantity? or Quality? Wtih Wal-​mart nearby and a growing froyo population, I can safely say that quality is important! I really want to give this place 3.5 stars because although it had a lot of flavors, the topping selection was large, but nothing out of the ordinary. Five star fro-​yo places need unusual toppings like sweet red mung bean, crisco lard, bambi’s mom or pickled herring. This place has your standard selection of chopped fruits, weird balls with fruit juice, mochi, nuts, cookies and chopped candy bars. I DO, however, like the taste of the froyo here better than Red Mango. RM has a slightly sour taste for their sweet flavors like choco choco chocolate, but OL taste like the actual flavor. I’m sure that comes at a price of more calories and fat, but we live in America folks, so eat up fatties!
One thing I do appreciate here is their OunceBack card — I know Red Mango has a card too, but I feel like it takes approximately half my life to get points. This place gives you $ 1 on your card for every $ 10 you spend… not bad! Even my clearance-​only shopoholic hoarder mom would buy into that deal!
And of course I’m sure you’re wondering what flavors I had? You’ll have to refer to my Red Mango review for a froyo tutorial, but I totally sported chocolate mint/​peanut butter/​snickerdoodle combo topped with mochi (a MUST!) reeses PB cups, butterfinger, walnuts and cinnamon toast crunch. BOOM!