Frozen yogurt with all the toppings you want

Pile it all on.

At the new Spirels Yogurt Delites along Randall Road in South Elgin, you don’t need to pick between chocolate chips and strawberries on your frozen treat.

You can have it all.

The frozen yogurt shop opened last month, and already people are having so much fun trying new concoctions on their yogurt each time they stop in, said owner Shirley Tyrrell, who co-owns the shop with her sister Sandra Donatello.

You start with an empty cup at the store, and fill it to your heart’s content.

Spirels has five frozen yogurt machines, and each has two different flavors.

The middle knob on the machine lets you get a spiral of the two outer ones, so you actually have 15 different choices of frozen yogurt, Tyrrell said.

Among the choices are a no-sugar added yogurt and a sorbet for people who are lactose intolerant.

Most of the others are nonfat, except for the triple chocolate and French vanilla choices, she said.

Once you pick which kind or kinds you want, you fill your 16-ounce cup with as much yogurt as you can handle.

Then come the toppings.

At Spirels, they have several candy toppings, fresh fruit toppings and sauces, including chocolate, caramel and strawberry.

Once you’re created the perfect, scrumptious treat, you put it on a scale and weigh it.

You pay 45 cent per ounce, and then it’s time to enjoy.

“It’s kind of an assembly line,” Tyrrell said. “It’s very quick and easy and people seem to be enjoying it.

“They can get whatever they want,” she said.

Already, she said, they’ve had several repeat customers who want to try to out new flavors each time.

Tyrrell and Donatello are hoping the business takes off, and becomes a staple for frozen yogurt lovers along the Randall Road corridor, because they’re hoping to run the business until they retire.

The sisters take turns running the shop when they’re not working at their other jobs as a bookkeeper and a nurse.

“It’s independent and we started it,” she said. “My sister and I wanted to come up with something we could do for several years and then retire.”

They brainstormed many ideas for the business’ name having to do with yogurt and swirls, and finally came up with Spirels, based on the names of many of their family members. You have the S at the beginning and the S at the send for Sandra and Shirley.

Then, they changed the A in the word spiral to an E after Shirley’s son Eric. And they’ve come up with representatives for all of the other letters in the word, as well, Tyrrell said.

To check out Spirels head to 309 Randall Road, South Elgin.

For information, call (847) 888-9880.

Free them for charity: Don’t forget to stop by the Claddagh Irish Pub along Randall Road in Geneva today to help out a good cause.From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. some well-known community and business members will be jailbirds at the restaurant in Geneva Commons.You can head to the pub to help bail them out. Your donations to free the jailbirds will go to the Muscular Dystrophy Association to benefit local families with the disease.Ÿ Amy Williams#146; column covers all the news of business along the Randall Road corridor from Batavia to Crystal Lake. Contact her at randallbiz@comcast.net or (847) 894-5036.