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| - I have been intending to try U-Swirl for some time, just from knowing them thru twitter, so when we were driving around today and I saw this location (they told me they have 6 and more on the way), I insisted on stopping and seeing what this was all about. Large store, bright pastel colors, very open and inviting, with a mixture of high pub-style tables and chairs and booths/couches, very comfortable. A helpful female employee comes up and asks "have you ever been here before?" - a question which usually ticks me off, but I am glad she explained that they charge 30+ cents per ounce for anything you buy, yogurt, toppings, whatever (do they tare weight the containers, or are they priced the same as the food? Not sure.). They have about ten machines, each with two flavors you can kind of "tap" for yourself, each machine you can tap one flavor or swirl the two in that particular machine. I had the white choc macadamia and Heath bar flavors, which were both on the same machine, the heath bar was much better. Then you move to the topping area, where they have a fresh, clean, salad bar with about every candy or traditionall topping you can think of (I saw frosted animal cookies and those tiny m&m's). I had some crumbled peanut butter cups, some nuts, squeezed on some caramel and fudge. All this was about $5.00 for a nice amount of frozen yogurt and fresh topping. I thought it was pretty good frozen yogurt (although I DO prefer ice cream) and the experience was good enough that I am planning to be back, very soon.
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