American chain of frozen yogurt stores. It is one dessert burger the largest U. A TCBY in 2006 using the former logo in Lynnwood, Washington. Hickingbotham opened the first TCBY in Little Rock, Arkansas.
TCBY began franchising the following year, and by 1984 there were over 100 stores. Prior to 1984, the company’s name was “This Can’t Be Yogurt,” but a lawsuit from a competitor, I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! TCBY to create a new name from its initials, eventually using “The Country’s Best Yogurt”. In 1991 TCBY moved into the tallest building in Arkansas, Simmons Tower located in downtown Little Rock, and the building was renamed The TCBY Tower until 2000 when TCBY vacated. Fields acquired TCBY in early 2000 and became Mrs.
The combined company relocated headquarters to Broomfield, Colorado in 2012. In 2001, there were 1,777 TCBY locations across the country. By 2011, after several waves of closings, there were 405. TCBY offers frozen yogurt in a variety of flavors. The chain typically serves hard scooped and soft serve yogurt, while newer concept stores only offer soft serve. The new concept stores follow a self-service model, with customers being charged by weight. In September 2010, TCBY announced the test launch of breakfast and lunch meal replacement bowls, parfaits and smoothies made from non-frozen “fresh” yogurt called Yovana-Simply Yogurt in two self-service company stores in its headquarters of Salt Lake City.
2010 also saw the opening of a prototype store in Salt Lake City, Utah, operating under a different business model. Instead of customers ordering and being served in a traditional fashion, they serve themselves using any combination of available yogurt flavors, add their own mix of fruit or candy toppings, and pay by the ounce. In May 2011, TCBY launched Super Fro-Yo, a reformulated version of its yogurt with a more nutrient-rich profile. The company brought down the fat content of its yogurt to below 2 percent, so it can be labeled low fat. On January 10, 2012, TCBY launched a Greek frozen yogurt product. Every year, TCBY offers mothers across the nation a free frozen yogurt on Mother’s Day, and fathers a free frozen yogurt on Father’s Day. In October 2009, TCBY launched the “This Could Be Yours: The Great TCBY Store Giveaway,” a contest that rewarded one person with their own TCBY store.