You can visit the frozen yogurt shop Menchie’s to get a sweet frosty treat on a hot summer day. It has a wide variety of yogurt flavors and toppings available and you can create your own custom blend there. Anyway, here are the payment options at Menchie’s.
Mobile Wallets and Other Common Payment Options at Menchie’s
Menchie’s | Cash | Large Bills | Personal Checks | Debit Card | Credit Card | Apple Pay | Google Pay | UnionPay | JCB | PayPal | Venmo |
In-store | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||||
Online | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
You can use Apple Pay and Google Pay to make in-store purchases at Menchie’s but you can’t use these mobile wallets to order online there. It doesn’t accept PayPal or Venmo either. This frozen yogurt shop does accept traditional payment options like cash, debit cards, and credit cards though. And while its shops are franchised, it’s unlikely that a yogurt shop manager would accept large bills or personal checks.
Using Alternative Payment Methods at Menchie’s
Menchie’s | Klarna | Affirm | Afterpay | Sezzle | Zip | PayPal Credit | EBT | Store Gift Card | Store Credit Card |
In-store | No | No | Yes | No | |||||
Online | No | No | Yes | No |
Like other frozen yogurt shops and bakeries, Menchie’s doesn’t accept EBT. While restaurants can accept EBT if they participate in the Restaurant Meals program in the states where it’s available, this program is meant to allow its users to buy hot meals so a frozen yogurt or ice cream shop may not qualify for it. Frozen yogurt may also be considered a luxury instead of a basic meal.
If you’re looking for an alternative, there are many fast-food burger restaurants that accept EBT in California, though, and some of them serve ice cream as well as burgers. And again, the RMP is also available in a few other states.
You can use Menchie’s gift cards to pay for your order either at its frozen yogurt shops or online on its app. Some restaurants don’t let you use their gift cards online, but this frozen yogurt shop does.
Additional Background Information for Menchie’s
Like a few of its competitors, Menchie’s is a self-serve frozen yogurt shop. When you arrive at the shop, you can pick up a cup and fill it with frozen yogurt. After that, you can add toppings such as fresh fruit, candy, sprinkles, and chocolate to your yogurt cup. When you’re done, you bring the cup to the counter and pay for your purchase. The price of your meal is based on the weight of the yogurt cup and its toppings. Yogurtland is another self-serve frozen yogurt shop that uses the same business model.
Vegans might want to know that sorbet is also available at Menchie’s, so you can fill your cup with sorbet instead of frozen yogurt if you don’t want to eat dairy products. You can also select an edible waffle bowl to hold your yogurt instead of a paper cup, although there’s an extra fee for the waffle bowl. If you like waffle bowls or waffle cones, this is probably worth it.
More Frozen Treat Shops Like Menchie’s That Take Apple Pay
Another self-serve frozen yogurt shop where you can buy yogurt and add toppings such as candy and fresh fruit, Yogurtland has several shops in the Santa Barbara area and more shops in other parts of Southern California.
You can also visit TCBY, or The Country’s Best Frozen Yogurt, at many malls in Southern California.
The ice cream shop Cold Stone Creamery works a little differently from the self-serve frozen yogurt shops. It mixes ice cream and toppings together on a cold stone to create unique ice cream blends.
Best known as a drugstore, Rite Aid also has in-store pop-up ice cream shops that serve its Thrifty brand ice cream. Lots of drugstores sell frozen ice cream but Rite Aid may be the only one that has soft-serve ice cream.