Orange Leaf closing for good after today

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Orange Leaf posted on Facebook that today will be their last day of operation because their lease is up. (And everything is 50% off today.) This was news to me! Am I the only one surprised? (Edit: seems like this must have been sudden, because as recently as Sept 8 they posted on Facebook that they were looking to hire two new people.)

With the recent closing of iYo, this leaves quite a froyo gap in the square all of a sudden!? Has froyo had its moment and now become uncool? :(

Comments

I'm sad about iYo, but not Orange Leaf

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

Local business with, under the new owner, great food in addition to the sweets. Orange Leaf is a national chain with 300+ locations. If they hadn't come in and diverted business (in part I'm sure just because of their few-steps-more-convenient location), iYo might have survived.

RE: I'm sad about iYo, but not Orange Leaf

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but as I said elsewhere on this thread, Orange Leaf seemed (to me) to be doing more community involvement type stuff than iYo. That counts for something, at least to me.