Swizzle into Summer with Darien's New Frozen Yogurt Shop
NEIRAD enilno edition
Swizzles, Darien new unique ice cream bar, allows you to indulge in some of your favorite frozen treats while preparing for bathing suit season. The popular teen hangout is a low fat frozen yogurt store. Swizzles has eight different flavors and each is either non-fat or low-fat. At Swizzles you can eat what you want and still achieve the body of your dreams.
Unlike most ice cream stores, Swizzles is self-serve. There are eight flavors: alpine vanilla, chocolate, cake-batter, strawberry, original, pomegranate, cookies ‘n cream and mango sorbet. Customers can mix and match flavors and add as many toppings as they would like. Toppings include reeses pieces, m&m’s chocolate chips, jelly beans, reesespeanut butter cups, butterfingers, fruit loops, apple jacks, gummy works, gummy bears, fresh fruit, coconut, and an assortment of nuts.
It is nice to have a wide variety of flavors and toppings to choose from but is far too easy to get carried away. Senior Zach Heyde said, “Swizzles is awesome! Swizzles is cool because it's completely self-serving--no set sizes, it's all priced by weight. So you completely control what you get.” Rather than charging by cup size and per topping Swizzles charges by ounce. Each ounce costs 59 cents but there is only one cup size and many treats to tempt customers before they reach the cash register for their weigh in. It is very easy to make yourself a ten dollar ice cream sundae without realizing it.
The store also has somewhat long lines and limited seating. Since everything is self-serve customers tend to make their sundaes quickly. The cashiers don’t seem to be able to keep up with the rapid pace of the customers and it is easy to find yourself walking away with a half melted sundae. Overall customers seem to think that the quality of the product is pretty good. Heyde said, “It's frozen yogurt, not ice cream, frozen yogurt that tastes like soft-serve ice cream. That, to me, is a plus.”
