Red Mango

No way, I know people like this place but um no.
The yogurt I got tasted sour and it was icy. I told the lady behind the counter and she said it was the tartness of the yogurt coming out. Well I have had frozen yogurt before and it didn’t taste like this at all.
So I told her I didn’t want it because it was bad. She said ok and continued what she was doing, no refund or anything. I told her to throw it out and I left. Just an over all bad experience. I think I will stick with Peachwave.

Brain freeze! I was eating the yummy concoction so fast I ended up with brain freeze!
They had about 8 flavors today but I was looking for the traditional — a bit of chocolate and a hefty sampling of the tart vanilla. The yogurt was quite good and creamy.
Red Mango has the typical cookie, candy and fruit options for toppings. This location also has options of smoothies in 5 – 6 different flavors.
This may have replaced my other regular fro-​yo place. Yum.

My wife and I like that frozen yogurt is getting popular in KC. We normally go to the Green Apple on Johnson Drive and have no complaints.
Like all the other yogurt spots, Red Mango is self serve. Come in, pick your yogurt, choose your toppings, weigh, pay, eat.
We went on a hot Saturday night. No one was there, which was surprising considering the heat. That probably stems from how unkempt the place seemed. The disinterest from the employees was evident. They were nice and talkative, but not professional. It would be hard to stay focused on the customer, though, when they are so few and far between. I didn’t white glove the place, but in my mind it felt dirty.
Many of the yogurt machines were empty, leaving only four or five choices. I opted for a raspberry yogurt that was VERY raspberry flavored. I was hoping it would be a lighter flavor. I could have asked for a taste cup, so, mea culpa. The group that came in next were offered the cups. I had forgotten that I could ask.
Red Mango prices seem to be a little cheaper than the other chains, then again, they have three cup sizes whereas Green Apple has only two, and I could be getting better at filling the cup.
The yogurt is just fine, though aggressively flavored. Flavor choices are limited by the lack of business. You won’t spend much time in line. It’s easy to save a little cash by choosing the small cup. There is outdoor and indoor seating.

Red Mango is a healthy take on the self-​serve yogurt phenomenon that seems to be popping up all over the place.
Like the rest of the bunch, you select your yogurt, add toppings, and pay by weight. One think I like about RM is the large selection of healthier (emphasis on the –er) options on both yogurt and toppings– especially the large fruit selection. Also like the rest, the atmosphere is bright, clean, and modern. I love that they have small (read: reasonable) cup sizes here, which seems to be lacking at a lot of their competitors.

I love to take late night walks through and about the UMKC campus as I get to stare at the pricey shops of the plaza and have sidewalks enough to skip if I want. The sun goes down and the snots crawl into their holes and the city streets of Kansas City are lit with only the few awesome shops that still manage to stay open for such a rare moment. One of those shops is Red Mango.
The staff are always young, half paying attention but nice and funny. They quickly type in the order, throw you the cup and get to going on the order… usually you’re rushed out in no time. They have a great selection of yogurts and fresh fruit and the prices are fair. I’ve had staff give me an extra scoop for my dog even!
I love the Pomegranate smoothie — late night treat to die for!

Ever since I fell in love with Yogurtini a few weeks ago, I’ve been using every opportunity to get to another Fro-​Yo store (me = eternal dork). Well my chance came; I pounced; I devoured; I exhibited self-​control on toppings.
This place brags to be healthier than the competition using real yogurt with probiotics (What Jamie Lee Curtis is always raving about) & fresh fruit. It tasted healthier aka not as good. The bummers about this place were the limitations: limited flavors (6 or so– only one was deemed delicious) & limited topping buffet (probably 20 items). The bonuses: «healthier» fro yo, less fat than other places, FRESH fruit, and great people watching on the fringes of a college campus. It’s good, but I like the decadence of yogurtini better. Pricing is essentially the same (39cents/​oz).

Yay, I’m a Fan: Excellent news that there’s finally a Red Mango in the Kansas City area. The self-​serve set-​up is quick. The product itself is tasty and, if all the marketing is to be believed, relatively good for you.
Meh. I’ve Experienced Better: Should we be disturbed that the place smells like sour milk when you walk in? It’s also a little weird that the place has been open for a mere few months and already looks unclean. Those self-​serve attendants are annoying and sometimes weirdly behaved. And the counter personnel also have a touch of the Twilight Zone about them.
Summary: This place isn’t going to make it, considering the pop-​up competition appearing everywhere, if it doesn’t make sure that the environment is as pleasing as the product itself. And if it doesn’t make it, that will be a huge disappointment.
Note: I wrote this review a few months back and have visited frequently since… same story, different month: a pleasing product in a somewhat trashy atmosphere. I’m amused by the cardboard boxes of supplies that stare me in the face while I sit at one of their tables and enjoy my healthy lunch replacement.

Haven’t gotten their yogurt yet, but they have become one of my «go to» places for smoothies.
I loved that their smoothies lacked artificial sweeteners, use stevia, and that you actually see them grab fruit to put in the smoothie (not just some purée or sugary syrup).
Best yet, you can ask them to not put the stevia in… my smoothies are great without it… no added sweetness… just the fruit flavor!

I like that Red Mango is in town, located where they are. The customer service has been excellent both times I’ve gone in.
The two things that I have a problem with are:
I don’t like the tartness of the vanilla bean flavor. It doesn’t taste like vanilla at all. My tongue /​brain connection isn’t ready for a tart taste when I’m thinking of vanilla.
The other down side has been the toppings. They were different both visits and the number of toppings were much, much smaller the second trip in. Maybe that’s a good sign that they are busy, but it drives me nuts when a place is inconsistent.
It’s relatively new and I’m sure they are going through some growing pains, so I will happily revisit and update my review then.

**Request your customer loyalty card. I didn’t know they had one until I overheard another customer talk about it after we purchased our yogurt. You may have to register your number first before it is active. I just found it on my phone:
registered online, showed the number to the gal up front and then she gave me a card.
Be careful when reaching for a waffle cone! They had them on the toppings bar and we witnessed a kid drop a cone. The manager put it on the scale next to the kids yogurt and made the party pay for it:(
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What an awesome addition to the area!
Today, the flavors were Original, Madagascar Vanilla, Dulce de Leche, Pomegranate, Black Cherry, Summer Melon, Pineapple and Key Lime Pie.
All natural yogurt, fresh fruit, candy toppings and yummy syrups. Love the organic chocolate syrup.
We opted for the Madagascar Vanilla with yummy toppings and fresh fruit. Simple and delicious:)
We met the owner and staff were very gracious. You have to love that.
This is a great location.

I am fairly new the froyo scene, but I think red mango has the best froyo in Kansas city when compared to Yogurtini, Peachwave and Over the Top Cupcake & Yogurt Shoppe.
You can certainly tell that Red Mango uses fresh ingredients and fresh fruits. I have not had all the flavors but my personal favorite is Mandarin Orange. I found it interesting that the original tart was so frozen it would not come out of the machine!
The cost for Red Mango seemed comparable to most places and felt like it was toward the cheaper end of the spectrum.

I went here for Unilocal office hours and am glad I got to meet Joi and other fellow Unilocalers. It was even better that the yogurt here was great.
I had my doubts as one of my friends had tried the yogurt at a Houston, TX franchise and said it was too icy for her tastes. Before trying it, I was expecting product like Yogurtini’s but was very pleasantly surprised that the yogurt was creamy.
You can grab a sample cup to taste the various flavors. My favorites were the original tart and the key lime as I love tart yogurt. Summer melon was a little sweeter but was very light and refreshing.
It is strange that Red Mango only offers one size for the cups that are pretty massive. I’m assuming it’s to entice you to buy more. Also, they must have been tipped off as they had two bins of mochi. As usual, I topped my yogurt with mochi and fresh fruit. I was happy that the berries were not previously frozen unlike Yogurtini.
The smoothies and probiotic iced teas caught my eye. I will save them for my future trips!

I attended the Unilocal After Hours event at this Red Mango location. I’ve never been to a self serve yogurt shop, and thought it was kind of cool.
Joi, as always went above and beyond to set up a very nice Office Hours event. Susan N., Lil, myself and Joi, and a friend of Lil’s attended while I was there. Thankyou Joi, so much.
Let’s talk about Red Mango. You walk in, and around the counter are topping choices, then flavors of yogurt in soft serve machines. Personally, I had a hard time deciding between flavors, but opted for melon yogurt, and pineapple yogurt. I could’ve also gotten Madagascar vanilla yogurt, I didn’t think about that. I actually had a hard time deciding which one I wanted. But it was damn good. It really was.
The topping? I chose fresh fruit: kiwi, blackberries, pineapples, and then coconut, and nuts. Then, to add to the calories, I put a bit of honey on it. (I was hoping they’d have agave, but that’s okay). In the end, the bowl was weighed. They have small, medium and large. They also have smoothies, and parfaits.
For selection, the yogurt flavors are seductive, and hard to choose which you want. For topping, they could do better.
It’s orange industrial interior and silver tables and chairs made it modern looking. I liked it. I have to go back, cause all those other frozen yogurt flavors are calling for me to try.

Being a picky smoothie person, I give the smoothie itself a 3. What I liked was that most of the ingredients were natural-​ish and it tasted okay.
The problem is that they added WAY too much sugar additives (stevia) and I couldn’t even finish mine because halfway through the smoothie, the feeling it gave me in my stomach was as if I just ate a GINORMOUSLY large brownie.
The place lost another point because of one of the workers that was there today (Saturday, Aug 21^st 2010) was creeping me out! I am sure he was on something illegal. His appearance was dirty and grunge-​like to start with, the words that came out of his mouth made absolutely no sense, he insulted my friend by pointing out that he was sweating profusely, and when I was trying to decide what to order he was standing so close that he was invading my personal space! He really couldn’t take the hint that he should go away and continued to attempt to make us laugh. I cannot believe whoever owns the place let him walk around the place even for a minute! If it were my Red Mango, I’d have sent him home on the spot. I’m really glad he was the «greeter» that day, because if he were making my smoothie, I wouldn’t have even tried it.
Also, the price for a large smoothie is $ 5.35, a little pricey! Save your time and go to KC Juice in Westport for a real smoothie!

Damn. I’ve been waiting for this to open since the minute I saw they were opening it and hoped to be the first reviewer. This is what I get for abandoning my Unilocal post for so long (you can thank the jackass that gave In-​A-​Tub five stars for my loss of faith in Unilocal).
I used to go to Red Mango all the time in Las Vegas. It was so delicious; two flavors: green tea and original. Big, bulging berries. Juicy, slippery mangos. And of course the cookie pieces, fruity pebbles, and nuts and pretzels, but I stick to the fruit. Delicious sasquachian ginourmous fruits.
I was truly surprised at this new entity just by the UMKC campus that is called Red Mango. I was greeted by a lovely girl who immediately started offering me samples of the huge assortment of self-​serve frozen yogurts. She was explaining all of the truths behind the yogurts and describing the flavors with love. She insisted I try the new and exciting flavors, «Here, try this one! This one is my favorite… Oh, this is a new flavor — you can be the first to try it!» I felt like I had my own personal shopper. Surprised they didn’t have the staple green tea from my westerly past, but the amaretto flavor was delicious. I chose that and moved to the next oddity — the buffet-​style condiments bar. You add all of your own toppings rather than requesting them from a server. But they still had the huge berries I love! The final foreign concept was the pay-​by-​weigh finale. You pay by the ounce rather than the size of your container. It was about the same price, though.
I am so happy there’s a Red Mango by campus. It’s so much better than regular old ice cream and the service was great.

Every time we are in LA, the first place we have to stop is Pinkberry, or Yogurtland. Thankfully we can just drive a ½ mile and now come to Red Mango – and that we will. I’m writing this review after my second trip in 16 hours. YES, 16 hours. It’s amazing. The staff is super friendly, knowledgeable and best of all the fro-​yo (frozen yogurt that is for you old farts) is the best I’ve ever had. It’s cheap too. Both times we’ve only spent $ 4 or less and had a hearty portion. You might be a bit deceived by whether it’s open to the public or not since it’s connected to student housing at UMKC – but it is. And, you should waste no more time – go, go now!

Red Mango is a welcome addition to the currently slim pickings for fro-​yo in town. I was craving the divine tart flavor, but I found myself intrigued by the black cherry flavor, so I tried both. Original for the win, though. Why mess with a classic? The black cherry was OK. Not bad, not something I’d probably get again. They also had dulce de leche, vanilla, chocolate, melon and at least one other flavor.
Toppings – they could use a few more healthy options. They have a lot more candy/​sweet stuff, but they also have fresh berries (my favorite), so yay (and not in horrible sugary syrup either). No granola or oats or muesli, though! I mean, golden grahams instead? Ick.
It would be nice if they could get some lids for the yogurt cups. I had to use a smoothie lid and by the time I got home, I was pretty close to spilling melted frozen yogurt all over my car (would go nicely with all the coffee spills, I suppose).
I’m not usually one to rejoice when a chain opens up, but Red Mango would be the exception. In my ideal world Red Mango would be popping up all over the city and putting Walmart out of business. True this makes absolutely no sense at all, but it’s a fun little fantasy.

Thrilled when I saw on Twitter that a Red Mango opened nearby. I was so sad when Yummo closed (next to Chef Burger in P&L District) for lack of advertising/​awareness I imagine. It was a too well kept secret, unfortunately. Kansas City was in desperate need of a replacement.
My NYC friends had me try this place (a few times) last year when I was in Manhattan, so it was no risk to try it last week. I plan on frequenting this place as often as possible. It’s wonderful to have a healthy alternate when you need a summer treat. (I’m sure I’ll love it in the winter, too.)

Red Mango= Frozen yogurt bliss.
Seriously, all I could say in the car ride back home was «Mmmmmmm Mmmmmmm…» No other words would suffice.
They offer free samples of their yogurt. After tasting a few, I decided on the Summer Melon flavor which tasted like a giant, ripe, fresh, delicious cantaloupe!
I filled my yogurt cup with a generous portion. Before adding a topping the total was $ 3.08. As she was weighting my yogurt, I noticed FRUITY PEBBLES as a topping option, and just had to add the crunchy, colorful cereal to my already bright orange yogurt. Fruit pebbles included, the price came to $ 3.46. A very reasonable price for this absolutely phenomenal concoction.
As for customer service, they were all very friendly and had great recommendations.

Pretty darn good fro yo… if I do say so myself. Red Mango is serving up plenty of taste and numerous options. I preferred the pomegranate myself because it was the least tart of all the flavors but at $ 0.39 an ounce the fro yo was a bit more expensive than some of the others I have had.
There was about six flavors to choose from: Pomegranate, Madagascar Vanilla, Dulce De Leche, Summer Melon are the ones I remember. The toppings bar had an assortment of fruits and toppings such as: Gram cracker, Pb cups, chocolate chips, fruity pebbles, straw berries, blue berries, etc.
I also appreciated that all the fro yo was sweetened with zero calorie stevia, which is a natural sweetener. All the yogurt was 30 calories an ounce which is reasonably healthy in my opinion.
So, from now on I will scream for fro yo instead of ice cream!