Bananas Smoothies & Frozen

Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt is a legacy smoothie and frozen dessert concept best known for operating in enclosed shopping malls, most often in food courts as a counter-service tenant. The brand offered made to order fruit smoothies, frozen yogurt, and similar frozen treats, serving primarily as a convenient snack and beverage option for shoppers alongside other quick-service food operators.

The company’s origins are not well documented, but historical leasing and marketing materials from malls in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions show Bananas as an established inline and kiosk operator, often listed under the full name “Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt.” In those materials, the concept is frequently shown alongside brands like Green Leaf’s and other food-court players, indicating that Bananas likely sat within a small multi-brand restaurant portfolio rather than growing as a large stand-alone chain. Its presence across multiple malls, while modest compared with national smoothie brands, points to a period when the concept held a recognizable niche in interior mall food courts.

Bananas was designed to work in compact spaces with limited back-of-house needs, which made it a practical fit for inline food-court bays and kiosks. Locations were almost entirely interior-mall based, relying on impulse purchases, shared seating, and steady traffic generated by adjacent sandwich, salad, pizza, and other quick-service tenants. This format allowed landlords to position Bananas as a low-barrier way to round out snack and beverage offerings in busy centers without dedicating large footprints or complex infrastructure.

As of December 2025, there is no clear evidence that Bananas is operating as an active, scaled chain. The brand’s primary domain does not host a functioning corporate website, and there are no recent press releases, franchise sales materials, or store development announcements referencing Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt. There is also no reliable public information on current store count, new unit openings, or a corporate real estate team. The absence of current digital presence and trade coverage suggests the concept is no longer in national expansion and may be dormant, consolidated, or retired.

Over roughly the last five years, available public information does not show new market entries, updated prototypes, or strategic shifts in format. Instead, Bananas now appears mainly in historical rent rolls, legacy site plans, and older mall marketing brochures. For landlords, brokers, and developers, the brand’s relevance today is largely tied to second-generation space: many former Bananas units were small food-court or kiosk footprints already plumbed and powered for beverage and frozen dessert use, which can be attractive to new concepts with similar operational needs.

In practice, that means a space once occupied by Bananas often translates well to another drink, dessert, or snack operator looking for a compact, high-visibility interior location. While Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt does not appear to be an active growth tenant as of December 2025, its past presence across enclosed malls continues to shape how some of those spaces are merchandised, marketed, and re-leased today.