LITTLE ROCK — Phoebe’s Treats, a family-owned selfserve frozen yogurt store, opened in November in the same building as Fayetteville’s newest location for corporate coffee giant Starbucks.
Phoebe’s Treats is owned by Phoebe Hunt, a 2009 graduate of Fayetteville High School.
Bryan Hunt, her father, owns the building.
Phoebe Hunt says she and her father decided to open the store on West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to offer a better quality of frozen yogurt in Fayetteville.
“The place we get our yogurt from uses only whole ingredients, instead of extracts,” says Chase Martin, store manager. “The blueberry (yogurt) has blueberries in it.”
The yogurt, distributed by Honey Hill Farms in Russellville, contains five probiotics, Martin adds.
The shop offers nine varieties of frozen yogurt, which change each week. Thisweek’s offerings are sea salt caramel pretzel, cookies ’n’ cream, Alaskan moose tracks, white chocolate mousse, chocolate covered pretzel, triple chocolate, blueberry, blueberry a la mode and Tahitian vanilla.
Toppings for the yogurt include rainbow sprinkles, almond slices, coconut flakes, fresh fruit and fortune cookies.
Martin says the sea salt caramel pretzel yogurt is the top-seller. “We go through twice as much of that asanything else.”
The yogurt sells for 45 cents an ounce. Phoebe’s Treats also offers bottled drinks ($2.47) and three bakery items - cookies ($1.67), brownies ($2.57) and four mini cinnamon rolls ($2.67).
The bakery items aren’t made in house, but Martin said the store plans to start making them from scratch soon.
Whats Up, Pages 17 on 12/21/2012