Tasti D-Lite Faces More Non-Competition

L.A.-based frozen yogurt purveyor Pinkberry continues its low-calorie invasion of Tasti D-Lite country.

The allegedly habit-forming icy-treat chain, AKA “crackberry,” has signed a lease for a new 600-square-foot shop on Broadway near Columbia University, according to Tuesday’s announcement from brokerage Robert K. Futterman & Associates.

The new Morningside Heights digs will Read More

Stay Awake and Bake: Chain Bets on 24-Hour Tanning

With a 24-hour A.T.M., a 24-hour Hot & Crusty, and a 24-hour Dunkin’ Donuts all operating along the same Upper East Side block, it seems only fitting that Beach Bum Tanning, located at 1276-A Lexington Avenue, is also open around the clock.

But at 2 a.m. on Tuesday, the night owls in that neighborhood appeared Read More

The Icy Green-Tea Taste of Competition


Modestly expansionist

Health-conscious L.A.-based frozen-yogurt purveyor Pinkberry is plotting a massive low-calorie invasion of New York.

But can a trendy Southern California upstart truly compete in a cooler Northeastern climate long dominated by the Tasti D-Lite juggernaut?

With one Manhattan location already open (7 East 32nd Street) and another three sites now under Read More

Cold Stoned! Suburban Ice Cream On the U.W.S.?

All of us have access to a set of cocktail-party facts that it seems like we were just born knowing. Mine tend to be seasonal. Winter: Snizzle is a kind of slow-falling hail. Autumn: Historically, more serial killers have struck in the fall than any other season. Summer: Ice cream makes you hotter.

Actually, I Read More