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LA's Pinkberry to close its first store
L.A. has a thing for frozen yogurt, and Pinkberry has made the trend notably more visible since the chain opened in 2005. L.A. also has a thing for parking tickets -- the lack of parking at Pinkberry's first location gave police bragging rights for administering 1,000 parking tickets within a span of five days (quite an indicator for how much people love the stuff -- no one knows the severity of parking restrictions like an Angeleno). But now froyo zealouts don't have to pay penalties for their creamy love; having spurned a string of knock-offs and opened 83 locations, Pinkberry has decided to close its infamous flagship store in West Hollywood.
Don't feel too bad for the meter maids; there are plenty more ticketing opportunities to go around.
As a former Pastor of a church in the City of West Hollywood, I can vouch that it wasn't the police of Los Angeles, nor the County Sheriff's Dept. that provides police protection in the City of West Hollywood. It's the City's Parking Vermin who issue parking tickets. Parking is indeed scare in the City of West Hollywood, as it was overdeveloped before it became a city. So the City now makes at least 20% of its Annual General Fund budget thru Parking Tickets. This has been well known for years. The only real question is: why did Pinkberry decide to open a store in a place where the lack of parking and the proliferation of parking tickets are well known?
