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Blending Business With Pleasure
The Latest Blender and Mixer Offerings Can Earn Extra Profits at the Push of a Button or a
Pour of the Bottle
Whether it’s a Daiquiri
or a Blue Dragon, a Piña Colada or a Peruvian Sunset, if it’s cold and
refreshing, guests likely will be calling for it at your concept on
numerous occasions this spring and summer. If you’re not prepared to
blend them up something special, the freeze may be on the additional
profits you could earn from pleasing these guests and their special
libation requests.
Have fun with recipes and the ingredients that go in them, as well as
experiment with the uses and technology of this year’s latest blending
equipment, and the spring and summer skies can be the limit for your
outfit’s cold beverage business. Consider the following supplier
sampling to be liquid leads.
Hamilton Beach
Typically, blenders mix in a circular motion, causing ice chunks or
other ingredients to struggle to reach the blades. This creates dead
zones or pockets where ingredients just sit. The Wave~Action system
changes the direction of the mixture from top to bottom and forces
ingredients down into the blades, so the customer is served a thick and
creamy drink with no ice chunks.
The Wave~Action system has been incorporated into the design of the new
Hamilton Beach Commercial Tango blender. Its 1 horsepower motor allows
the blender to thoroughly mix a 16-ounce drink in 15 seconds flat. The
container is completely redesigned to allow the blender to uniformly
mix top to bottom, not in a circle. This causes a wave that perfectly
mixes every time.
Daily’s
What makes the Daily’s product line so deliciously different? The
taste: Daily’s is irresistibly refreshing, because there’s real fruit
in every variety, along with only premium, all-natural flavors. Daily’s
is incredibly easy to enjoy.
The look: Daily’s lovers suggested a new look, and the company
listened. The result is an exciting new line of bottles that shows off
everything operators like about Daily’s.
The heritage: Ever since Daily’s founding nearly a half-century ago,
the company has stood for fresh fruit and original tastes. Today, it is
one of America’s best-selling mixer families, and you can savor that
quality in more than a dozen, delicious Daily’s flavors.
For more information, call (412) 828-9020.
Vita-Mix
Vita-Mix’s Portion Blending System Advance (PBS) is a top-of-the-line
ice shaver/ blender that holds 5 gallons of ice and shaves the exact
portion needed with the touch of a button. Advanced programming is
optimized for noise reduction, and the easily programmable touchpad
control allows up to four drinks to be made at once. Fresh ingredients
and/or any drink mix can be added to make perfect frozen drinks quickly
and consistently every time. The PBS Advance is the ideal blending
system for busy bars, casual dining and clubs.
The company’s On-Counter Blending Station Advance is another product
that blends any kind of drink consistently and quietly at the touch of
a button. With extra horsepower, the 48-ounce, 1.4-liter Advance
container with XP (Xtreme Performance) blade handles thicker
ingredients easily and reduces processing time by one-third. The
streamlined sound-abatement cover with easy-to-grip handle is perfect
for tight spaces. Available with 34 programs, the Blending Station
Advance shuts off automatically, freeing the server to wait on other
customers while the drink is blending. Perfect for restaurants, bars
and smoothie/coffee shops that need consistently smooth, high-profit
frozen cocktails, smoothies and ice cream drinks and where sound is a
concern.
Waring 
Waring’s MX Series Blenders feature a powerful 3-HP motor with speeds
up to 30,000 RPMs. Options from simple, High, Low and Pulse paddle
switch controls to Electronic touchpad controls with 30-second digital
timer. The MX Series comes with two different purchasing options –– a
64-ounce solid, stainless steel container or a 64-ounce unbreakable
polycarbonate container. The top-of-the-line MX1500 series includes a
heavy-duty sound enclosure for quiet operation, four reprogrammable
one-touch blending controls, a blue backlight LCD display, two pulse
options (maximum and normal) and variable motor speeds from 25 percent
to 100 percent.
Blendtec
Blendtec is raising the bar in providing your bar with the power of the
world’s most technologically advanced blending solution powered by the
most powerful motors in the industry.
What does this mean for you? With Blendtec’s one-touch operation, you
don’t have to worry about over-blending. The blender turns itself
off at just the right time.
Featuring a complete line of blenders and dispensing equipment that has
long been used in restaurant chains, Blendtec has the solution to help
you maximize the efficiency and profitability of your frozen drink
product line.
Create your own custom blending cycle for your house specialty or use
one of the company’s proven, pre-programmed blending cycles to create
that perfect drink every time, time after time.
For a total solution, Blendtec offers the unique BDI series equipment
that will dispense liquid flavoring, alcohol and ice, and then blend
the drink all at the push of a button.
Island Oasis
 For more than 20 years, Island Oasis has provided the foodservice
industry with premium products that allow any size operation the
opportunity to offer its customers, “The World’s Finest Frozen Drink.”
The key to Island Oasis’ success is its product line, which now
consists of 18 flavors including the latest addition, Wildberry.
As a leader among frozen beverage mix companies, Island Oasis provides
a fully integrated, turn-key premium beverage program. Island Oasis
also now manufactures the SB2100, a state-of-the-art, patented shaver
blender producing a perfect frozen drink every time. In addition,
Island Oasis also has in-house printing capabilities for award-winning
point of sale and more than 100 direct sales representatives offering
unparalleled service.
PowerSwirl
PowerSwirl, a lemon-lime flavored sports drink formulated to restore
energy and electrolytes, is part of the Swirl family of frozen drinks.
PowerSwirl can sit side-by-side with Swirl’s Margaritas, adult cocktail
mixes, frozen cappuccinos or low-carb, low-sugar drinks in Swirl’s
double-barrel Italian granita machine or stand alone as a replenishing
drink option for clubs. Offer PowerSwirl mixed with rum or vodka for an
energizing kick or serve in its original form as a rehydrating option
for patrons after a night of partying. This all can be
accomplished from one machine that requires no ice.
Beverage Specialties Limited
Major Peters’ full line of Bloody Mary mixes is a market leader in
taste and quality. Boasting a mind-blowing 94 percent tomato juice and
a pleasing blend of 40 tasty spices, Major Peters’ remains America’s
most requested on-premise Bloody Mary mix.
For more than 30 years, Major Peters’ has strived to defined the way a
Bloody Mary should taste. The company’s original formula started the
sensation, and then it revved up the taste with a fire-breathing Hot
& Spicy version and its Extra-Everything: The Works.
Coco Lopez
In 1954, Don Ramon Lopez Irizarry, in his small Puerto Rican
laboratory, developed the original Coco Lopez by blending the delicious
cream from the hearts of Caribbean coconuts with the exact proportion
of natural cane sugar.
 Suddenly Coco Lopez became the basis for a fabulous tropical drink
called Piña Colada. Quite a few bartenders and part-time mixers claim
to be the inventors of the “Official Beverage of Puerto Rico.” Either
way, there’s no doubt that the unique combination of Coco Lopez Cream
of Coconut, pineapple juice and Puerto Rican Rum is one of the most
refreshing tropical cocktails you’ll ever have. In fact, only the
original Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut meets the necessary conditions of
flavor and consistency to prepare a Perfect Piña Colada.
Tourists that came to Puerto Rico and tasted Coco Lopez’s Piña Colada
loved it so much they took Coco Lopez home so they could continue to
enjoy “The Taste of the Tropics.” Today, Coco Lopez has expanded its
distribution into 50 countries, including Europe, Japan, Central
America and the United States.
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