Yo Top It

A 17 month old 'customer' holding our sign

I don't know if you all have heard the word, but our family is branching out beyond the world of PIZZA's!!  We are now into the self-serve frozen yogurt faze that seems to be popping up at least around our area!  We carry 8 different nonfat yogurts and two sorbets.  It is all self-serve, and then we have 42 toppings to choose from (now this is where one could get into trouble...remember I said the yogurt is NONFAT...well, that is NOT so with m & m's or Snickers Bars, or Butterfingers...you get the picture!)  However...we do have berries...straw, rasp, black, blue and then kiwi!!  So it is NOT ALL BAD!!

Scott designed the store and then Jamie, Joe (who has been building our house for 3 years) and Pete a high school friend of Jamie's along with Scott built this Yogurt store.  It took about 7 weeks and finally, today, October 15 we opened our doors at noon to the public!

We did not advertise our grand opening because we have had to deal with a few different issues in getting this store open.  First the truck delivering the machines broke down in Eugene, and that caused a day delay.  Then when the machines arrived and we uncrated them, we discovered that each machine required two electrical outlets to plug into...well that was a problem and caused $$$$$ issues!  We found we needed a new circuit breaker and a new meter from PGE!  So that delayed us another 5 days!  But today was a good day, sunny and just busy enough with family and friends to work out the logistics of working the store and taking care of customers!  Aaron, Lacey's husband is going to run the store and Lacey will be the Operational manager.  Dina will take care of the books for this store. Jamie will finally be able to go back to Papa Murphy's and over look our four stores and physically work our busiest store!

We are so blessed to have our daughters and their husbands working in the family business...nothing like family to take care of things!  And now we will hope that this will be just as successful as Papa Murphy's has been for us.                                        

our personal 'candy' store!

It is a "sweet" job, and someone has to do it! That was ME!

After all the product has been chopped and prepped and ready for use!

Jamie getting the yogurt machines in place

So if you follow my blog, please stop in and have some yogurt!  We are at the intersection of 213 and Molalla Avenue in the Oregon City Point Center.  We happen to be between the West Coast Bank and Pizzano's Pizza!!  It is a busy little center with a Starbucks, a 5 Guys Burger, a Panda Express, Hawaiian Time, Bakery and other miscellaneous stores!  And we are right across from the entrance to the Clackamas Communty College!  Stop in and say HI, Aaron will be there during the day and Lacey will probably be spending a lot of hours in the evenings with new employees training them!

Opening Day...three new employees and the family, minus Lacey..she was there early in the morning and then again later in the day staying until closing.