LOVING LLAOLLAO

What's not to love about Spain's best-selling Llaollao, the number one European frozen yogurt brand in the world? Every creamy spoonful, topped with fresh fruit and sauce, is both tangy and sweet, refreshing and yes, actually good for you!

- VICKY VELOSO-BARRERA

I love this frozen yogurt so much that I even know the average waiting time in the queue at Robinsons Magnolia, SM Aura, Glorietta 2, SM Mall of Asia, etc. In the beginning, it was a love affair with a medium cup topped with a double serving of Biscoff sauce and nothing else. Then, somehow lured by that pistachio green color, I succumbed and ordered my medium cup with one Biscoff sauce topping and one pistachio. Even before being swept away by the Dubai chocolate craze, I switched to all pistachio sauce and now that's the new love of my life.

Erika Dee, daughter of seasoned restaurateurs Rikki and Beng Dee, is the COO of llaollao Philippines. Growing up in the restaurant business, it was natural for her to fall in love with the work. She knew since she was a kid that she wanted to follow in her parents' footsteps.

"They would bring me on rounds," she recalls. "I would go to the office, to the stores, and we would do food tastings together. It always excited me, and I knew it was the direction I was going to take. In college, I even opened my own restaurant inside the Ateneo campus! So right after college, it was an obvious decision to join the family business and grow with the brands."

Instead of feeling pressured to live up to the success of her parents, she says, "I'm very inspired to do as much or even better than them. They've given me all the necessary tools so I'm already a step ahead. With all the lessons they taught me, it excites me to build a brand such as llaollao.