Just around the corner from where I live, I have the difficult choice of choosing between 5 different frozen yogurt shops always packed with teenagers, and families alike. Within minutes I can be at either, Yogurtland, Tutti Fruiti, Ziiing, Menchi’s, and/or Haagen Dazs. Yep you read correctly! Haagen Dazs has joined the trend and now serves not only ice cream and gelato, but soft self-serve as well as hand scooped frozen yogurt. Haagen Dazs isn’t the only ice cream shop now offering frozen yogurt; both Baskin-Robbins and Cold Stone Creamery have started to incorporate the frozen yogurt concept into their businesses.
In the late 1990’s the frozen yogurt franchise industry hit a bump in the road in markets like California that started the idea of self-serve , but it has made a huge comeback in the past 5 years. With new delicious and innovative flavors such as the Blueberry Euphoria, and Caramel Fudge Eclare, interesting toppings such as fruit loops and rice crispy treats and cool clean shop setting, has become this decade’s 1950’s soda fountain shop. With 22,000 Frozen yogurt shops in the US, the industry is still growing and Fro-yo franchises blooming everywhere. While 22,000 might seen like a high number, it has to be taken within context of 1) the total population and 2) the penetration rate. It may surprise you that most of the US population has not tried self-serve and they are a big market. So, what may seem like marker saturation to some is untapped demand for other.
The contemporary, clean, and chill, atmosphere has been a great factor in attracting frozen yogurt lovers. The new frozen yogurt shops have moved away from the traditional ice-cream parlor look and now include modern furniture, free WiFi, and loungey hip music.
Frozen Yogurt franchises are paying more and more attention to creating a store with modern design to match their cool innovative Fro-Yo favors. But, some seem to overlook one thing; their Point of Sales system. There is no bigger eye sore than a big clunky system sitting on top of a beautiful white counter. Sintel System’s has the perfect solution for these stores. Their new Model 5i series point of sale system with its cool and hip thin white iPhone” Design and Look” is not only chic and sleek but also offers a powerful dual processing system. Interested customers can buy this modern system with or without an integrated Scale (Ounce Scale or Gram Scale). Sintel Systems even provides patch management and remote data back-up for the system, as well as technical assistance and training.
Sintel Systems is the only direct to end user full-service provider of tailored Point of Sale systems to the frozen yogurt industryproviding hardware, software, support, warranty, gift/loyalty, and merchant account processing from 972-POS-TECH.
As a single source for business solutions, our experienced, knowledgeable team negotiates the complex POS landscape for you to enable you to find the right POS system for your business and budget. Hardware – Software – Support
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