Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt

Don’t do it .
This place is awful. Everything about it sucks. The yogurt is terrible. Like awful. The toppings sat a few days too long.
i got completely ripped off. Dont go there.

Sooo good.
I was having a bad day and needed to cry over frozen yogurt. I am thankful because I think a rather large understanding man sat next to me. There is plenty of parking outside, and my favorite stores — Clover Bakery,
Anyway Tutti Frutti made my day better, which is saying a lot.
Highlights
* What tasted like my childhood. It was the first flavor — Yocult? I don’t know, this was tangy and delicious.
* I had a nutty praline tart which drove me nuts (pun intended).
* The peanut butter was not too shabby.
* The banana fruit tart that I also added made everything perfect. Add boba and Gharardelli’s white chocolate and call me as happy as a clam.
It was about $ 6 and was totally worth it.

Asked the kid for a crêpe. Said his cook, who is also the owner was on break. Asked if he knew when they would be back. He said he didn’t know and that they were gone already for 2 hours. So I asked him if he had anything like a taro pearl tea. He said he had something that was less creamy. He asked me if I liked sweet and strawberries. I said sure, dealers choice. What I got was a Strawberry snow ice, with fruit, and gummies. Not sure how this is even close to a pearl tea, that is less creamy. Been here a half hour now and still no cook. Not sure this is a good way to run a business. I’ll try it out one more time. Two stars in the mean time. Though it should be 0, but the kid tried.

Shop closes at 10. Walked in at 9:45, employee informed us that all of the fruit toppings had already been wrapped up which was fine but wouldn’t let us use the non fresh toppings because he’d already cleaned up. Checked out. Didn’t receive a receipt (there is a sign that says if you don’t receive a receipt, your yogurt is free) but I didn’t even bother. Poor first impression.

I didn’t try the roti buns or the froyo, but I certainly tried the moffles. Sooooo delicious! Would definitely come back for these alone, and decently priced at $ 1.75.

We stopped here before going to Shabuway, because I really wanted to try their moffles. Some of the reviews made it sound like they sell out in the early afternoon, but we were able to get them at 7pm on a Wednesday.
First off, they are delicious! They make it in front of you on what appears to be a regular waffle iron. They come out piping hot, and in fact look indistinguishable from a regular waffle. One bite and you’ll know the difference. It was gooey and smooth in the way that only mochi can.
As my friend said, now I will be just a little bit disappointed eating regular waffles now. Its like regular waffles are rip-​off mochi waffles.
Cheap, too! Only $ 1.75 for a moffle. I did not try the yogurt or the toppings, but I did not need to. Five stars.

If i could put half a star i would…
Their Moffles are so GOOD and after the first time i was hooked! Did not appreciate that when our family of 6 ordered 6 moffles, the cashier/​worker took it upon himself to shout out loud everytinebine moffle was done, «1 of 6…2 of 6…» and so on until all 6 were made! RUDE!
Disappointed that since then it seems like they never have enough batter to make any! We have tried going in the afternoon or evening and they never have enough batter! They suggested to call ahead of time to pre order and they tell us they only have enough batter to make 5 for the rest of the day… at 2pm!
Maybe they should just take this off the menu!

I was walking to Shabuway and passed by Tutti Frutti and saw that they sell mochi waffles! So excited so I made a mental note to come here after dinner!
I came in with friends excited to order mochi waffles only to be told they sold out already! :(the gentleman working told me they sell out usually around 3 – 4 pm. Well that sucks since i teach until 4 pm! That means I’ll never be able to try it!
Anyways, so I got yogurt and the yogurt is good BUT the gummy bear topping is SO HARD… Unusually hard. I like hard gummy bears, not too soft, but this could have broken a tooth.
Their snow cream black milk tea is not sweet, which the guy told me so I had him put honey to try and sweeten it. At least he told me it wasn’t sweet otherwise I would have been way more disappointed. It’s still not sweet enough… It’s milk tea! Why isn’t it like all the other milk teas?
Anyhow, I will try to come back to try their mochi waffles. If I can ever get here before 4pm!

After walking by a few times, I decided to give it a try. There are plenty of flavors and toppings here.
The original and yaccoo is my favorite! I also like their strawberry and mango flavor. Their yogurt is really creamy and melts in mouth! love the texture of it :)
They also sell pearl milk teas here. Their milk tea is very different from other milk tea joints. The tea flavor really stands out and I love their snow cream (a cream they put on top of your drink, and when you got bored of your tea you can mix the cream and tea together to make milk tea!) amazing isn’t it?
But I like sipping it with tea more.
All in all, great place to visit for frozen yogurt and milk tea. Clean place and nice attentive staff.

More like 2.5 stars.
I’ve frequented this place many times in the past, maybe over 35 times or so since it was in the same plaza as Mitsuwa and Clover Bakery.
At first, it was a pretty awesome place. The décor is cute, there’s always a Pixar/​Disney/​Ghibli film playing on the screen, and I enjoyed dropping by in the afternoons and sitting down and enjoying a movie I probably have already seen a dozen times.
Their TF Tart flavor is pretty good, I also like their taro flavor as well. The consistency of their yogurt is less creamy and on the more icy side than Yogurtland, but I didn’t mind.
I liked this place. However, as time went by, some things pretty irked me. One day, they stamped on a $ 5.00 limit on debit and credit cards. One of the things I liked about this place was being able to buy frozen yogurt without having to worry if I was over enough to pay with card.
Second, their toppings no longer seemed fresh, at least by mid afternoon they weren’t. And this was on the occasion of going five or six times. Same story. Their cheesecake bits were stale and old and they never bothered to change them out.
There was also a time I decided to try their version of Honeyberry’s roti buns. The plain bun was nowhere as good, with the bread being rather dense and overall, unmiraculous.
The very last time I went, I was ecstatic to finally see green tea flavor. I got my yogurt and happily took a bite, and immediately spit it out. There was no flavor in it at all. It was as if I was tasting the diluted remnants of old green tea left out on the counter for five days. There was also absolutely no sweetener in it at all. It was basically old green tea frozen ice water. I was severely disappointed and have not gone back since.

I came into Tutti Frutti to grab some frozen yogurt, but ended up also leaving with some bubble tea and a half-​dozen of Roti Buns.
The Milk Bubble Tea wasn’t too impressive. The tapioca was too chewy, and the tea tasted like flavored water. I did enjoy the whipped cream they topped the tea off with. I sampled two flavors of their frozen yogurt: Mango and Vanilla. The Mango was flavorful, light, and true to its name. I’m not sure what the Vanilla tasted like. It definitely wasn’t vanilla, but it was enjoyable regardless.
Tutti Frutti was on course for mediocrity, but then I dug into the box of their Roti Buns. When I came in they had two types of Roti Buns, butter and cream cheese, with two types of «frosting» on top: vanilla and coffee. Unlike the insubstantial buns at Honey Berry, the buns here are packed top to bottom with light, juicy bread filling. The distribution of cream cheese in the buns was uneven, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it, even the parts without cream cheese.

Pretty standard frozen yogurt place. Middle of the pack. I’ve been to better, I’ve been to worse. But nothing makes it stand out as remotely special. It could be any froyo place in any strip mall in any city in any state.

Was having the craziest yogurt craving… thankfully there was THIS Tutti Frutti close by.
Arrived at 8P.M. and there was NO ONE inside. Understandable, considering it was freezing cold :) Brother had ordered me to get some for him as well, so I grabbed two LARGE cups and started filling away. I was being a bit greedy with what I wanted, and before I reached the end of the flavors, I had already filled both cups to the top :(
Best flavors: Watermelon Sorbet & lychee
Worst flavor: Mango… had this weird tingly feeling after. unpleasant.
Toppings. So disappointed that they didn’t have fruity pebbles!!! I only add fruity pebbles and yogurt chips as toppings at any other yogurt spot… I was almost on the verge of crying, but the adult in me told me to ‘simmer down, child’. Fruits didn’t look fresh AT ALL.
Young man at the cash register was nice and cheerful. Good fit for a yogurt spot. The good vibe soon faded when my total came out to be $ 17.00. I didn’t know whether I should laugh or feel ashamed…
In all it was an OK experience.

After dining at Shabuway next door, the madre wanted to get fro yo for dessert. I was still so full, but decided to try this place out. 38 cents an ounce, I opted for a little bit of the regular tart, watermelon sorbet, green apple, and peach yogurt. I added my usual granola, almonds, mochi, and a first, lychee popping balls.
The watermelon sorbet came out watery, and then super icy. The other yogurts also had a more icy texture to it. The lychee popping balls were tasty, but the mochi tasted old and definitley not fresh.
Overall, it was dissapointing, and glad I only tried a little bit.

definitely better than yogurtland and cheaper than pinkberry! They dont have a huge variety, but they do have unique ones like the yakult yogurt (the asian drink!) and soybean! (they might change it around though)
the last time i went, i got watermelon sorbet, splenda strawberry, yakult yogurt, and the original tart (fav). i piled on some watermelon, cantaloupe because im weird, popping lychee balls, mochi, and rainbow jelly.
i’m sad that they didnt have the nata de coco or lychee jelly that they have in some yogurt places. its my fav topping, not including my chew mochi. i got their coffee roti buns once, and it wasnt too good. maybe because i came about an hour or two after they made a batch…
the workers are really nice and cool to talk to! my friend and i came here during summer and they played My Neighbor Totoro every wednesday on the tv screen!!!

I wasn’t impressed with the yogurt here. Sampled a few flavors: tart, green tea, watermelon, cookies n cream, mango. They were too sweet and icy. Be careful too, the yogurt dispenses very fast! You may end up with more yogurt than you had planned for.
On the plus side, there was a big selection of toppings and the employee was nice/​friendly.
This was the first time going into a yogurt shop, sampling, and walking out without buying anything :-(
Unfortunately, their «roti» buns were not ready for another 30 minutes so i never got the chance to try them.
38c /​oz

Tutti Frutti makes me a little sad. I keep thinking that it will go out of business because there is never anyone inside whenever I pass by.
The yogurt itself is very icy and watered down compared to Yogurtland’s yogurt. The «yakult» flavor was out of order, so I was disappointed that I couldn’t try it. The toppings were clean and filled to the brim, but that should be a given considering that my boyfriend and I were the only people inside, besides the cashier.
They also sell roti buns, but unfortunately I was super full and couldn’t try them. I think they had a few different flavors, which I thought was interesting. Could they possibly be better than Honeyberry’s buns? Probably not. Still curious, though.
The cashier was super nice! I don’t recall his name, but he had a great attitude. To be honest, if I were working at Tutti Frutti alone, I would not be happy. Props to you!

OMG I LOVE Tutti Frutti!
No wait, that’s Tuttimelon. Whatever knock off this is, it’s doing a terrible job at trying to compete.
I try a whole host of froyo places because, well, why not. What this was, was a watery joke. Peanut butter tasted like… something not anywhere near peanut butter. Taro was the only passable flavor, but it still tasted more like water than anything else. Maybe they just had a bad batch this time around? I can’t imagine it would be like this all the time, and still get business?
Plus, they have those colorful mochi, not the white ones — they aren’t as firm, in my opinion, and that makes for an ultra-​chewy, watered down dessert experience.

Honestly, I can’t stop coming to this place. Not only is it close to work, but they have flavors that keep me coming back for more.
Recently it’s their Green Tea flavor that’s got me and of course I can’t stray from their other delicious flavors like Yacoo which is the Yakult flavor and Original Tart.
The Green Tea flavor has a vanilla base with the delightful Matcha Green Tea flavor, it’s creamy and has that small hint of bitterness you get from real Matcha. The Yacoo is for Yakult fans and the Original Tart is just that.
I like the milk teas they make here, they are just plain milk tea’s with pearls for $ 3 but the tea flavor is nice and strong and you get a big portion.
Always my favorite location and Bonnie, Edgar & Andy are great workers who are talkative and friendly! :-)

Tutti Fruiti is an international chain of Franchised Yogurt shops. Started in 2007 by founder Jay Kim, it now has over 250 international locations and is expanding rapidly, with locations throughout the world, including Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, UAE, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Tahiti, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Vietnam, and the US.
The company’s rapid success is largely due to its vertical integration. It originally started out making Yogurt machines under their corporate name of TF Yogurt, and machines branded with their Well Spring brand. They were a newer Asian competitor to the older US Sani Serv brand, which for decades could be found making soft serve ice cream in major US fast food chains and casual dining establishments. A silver stainless steel 3 handle 2 flavor Twist model 522 costs close to $ 18k. Sani Serv, for whatever reason, caught the first Soft Serv and Yogurt wave that hit America 35+ years ago with TCBY, DQ, Foster Freeze and other older chains, but somehow missed the newer Asian led Tart yogurt wave, which is less than a decade old here in the US.
One brand that did get a part of this new market is the American made Taylor machines. Their popular stainless steel Twin Twist model 336, with its 1.7 Liter Freeze cylinder and 7.6 liter mix hopper, can be seen in YogurtLand stores and other lower end self-​serve PYOFY places. (PYOFY = Pour Your Own Frozen Yogurt.) Because this machine is cheaper, without as much temperature control, you get a less consistent Froyo, sometimes runny, sometimes icy (which you often get at YL and other less than $ 0.38/oz PYOFY chains and solo shops). You can buy a used Taylor Twin Twist model 734 for $ 2,500 for air-​cooled and $ 2,200 for water cooled.
Taylor’s superior Twin Twist, floor model C731, with its larger 3.2 liter freeze cylinder and 18.9 liter mix hopper, with stainless steel and black accented front, can be found in better SPYFY establishments (SPYFY=Server Pours Your Frozen Yogurt) like Pinkberry, which charges more per cup due to the higher cost machine (perhaps more than double) and the extra worker to serve you.
There are other less popular brands like Donper, Elvarra and Stoelting, and if you are in Asia, there are about 10 different Chinese manufacturers now selling Froyo machines.
So Tutti Fruiti started supplying the Well Spring machines to the Asian spawned Tart Froyo craze sweeping the globe. They added the knowledge of making and mixing the flavors and ingredients, too. So now that they have started opening their own stores, much like Apple did with their wildly successful Apple Stores, they have benefited and exploded from strong vertical integration of the entire supply chain.
This Tutti Frutti location has only been open a little over half a year. It has the TF formula of 6 machines in the colorfully bright store, serving 12 flavors of PYOFY. This includes Yakult, that yogurt pro-​biotoc flavored drink popular for digestion purposes in Korea and Japan. (And sponsored a professional Japanese League baseball team, the Yakult Swallows).
I believe they started by charging $ 0.37/oz for their PYOFY when they first opened, but when I came in recently, they said they charged $ 0.33/oz. I guess these are winter prices, or competition is too tough?
They also have jumped on to the HoneyBerry Roti Bun craze, offering a small selection under their Oh My Buns brand, or something like that. Here again, vertical integration and trying to expand the Franchise revenue and ASP (average selling price per customer). More on the Roti Bun craze in another review.
Froyo Wanugee here, you know you love me!
(Note: use of the above phrase by written permission of Lolia, the Froyo Girl!)