Summer is here, smoothie shops are starting to sell well, especially smoothies with soft fruit. During this lucrative time, if you control your costs well, you will make more profit. Let's take a look at how to control costs for smoothie shops and how to manage ingredients, along with recommendations for professional items that will help add value to your smoothie menu. Click to see the great items we recommend to make profits for your store.

1. Check the ingredients when buying or receiving them carefully. Do not let them rot or be substandard in size. Also, store them properly. Some shops use fresh fruits because they are cheap, but forget that not all fresh fruits that are bought can be used. They must be peeled and the unusable parts cut off first. The parts that have to be discarded are also costs. If they are not cut well, there will be very little left that can be used.

Therefore, using pre-cut frozen fruits is an interesting option. They can be used immediately and can be used in their entirety. If compared in quantity, it may be cheaper than using fresh fruits. Don't forget to check which menus are not selling well or are sold only once in a while, so cut them out. This will help you not order more ingredients than necessary, which will help you save costs.

2. Control production and create standard recipes to help reduce losses, such as asking customers exactly what menu they ordered, what ingredients to add or not to add, and creating standard recipes for the menu. The ingredients to be blended must be weighed and measured. Practice until it becomes a habit because estimating the amount may result in adding too little ingredients, requiring more blending, or too much, requiring throwing away. This helps to calculate the use of ingredients accurately, affecting stock and ordering ingredients in the future.

3. Create new menus from existing ingredients, adding more options for customers. This is a good way to sell ingredients that have been stored for a long time, but it does not mean using ingredients that have started to spoil. You must use only good ingredients. For example, the mango smoothie menu uses ripe mangoes in the blender. If there are a lot of mangoes left, you can add a mango yogurt menu or add mango toppings, which will go well with many menus.

4. Use concentrated fruit juice mixed with pulp to reduce the amount of real fruit. It is more economical. It is using other ingredients instead of expensive raw materials because fruits have different seasons. When there is a lot of fruit, the price will be cheap. But if it is out of season, the price will be expensive. This makes the price of fresh fruit fluctuate erratically. For example, in the past, limes were expensive. It had a big effect on restaurants. Many restaurants turned to lime powder instead because it is similar to real limes at a cheaper price.

For fruits, artificially flavored fruit juices cannot be used in place of real fruits because they do not give the same smell, taste, and texture as real fruits. However, there are currently concentrated fruit juices with pulp that can be used with the fruit pulp when blending to reduce the amount of real fruit and give a texture very close to a smoothie made from only fruit.

The first item is Smoothie Powder. Because Thailand's weather is hot, blended ice melts quickly, so the ingredients can easily melt and separate into layers. Smoothie powder helps the ice and syrup blend better, giving it a smooth and delicious texture, and helps the ice melt more slowly.

For beginners who have never tried using smoothie powder, we recommend you give it a try. Long Beach Smoothie Powder " helps make drinks smooth, shiny, no separation, dissolves slowly, has no odor and does not interfere with the taste of the drink. Easy to use, just add to smoothies while blending, half to 1 tablespoon per 16-ounce glass of drink. For blended drinks that do not contain milk, such as fruit smoothies, slush drinks, and granita, one packet of Long Beach Smoothie Powder can be used to blend smoothies.
40-80 glasses, calculated to cost about 1 baht per glass, is considered very good value. Click to see price details and purchase at Makro or order online.

Another item that smoothie shops must have is concentrated syrup mixed with fruit pulp, or what is called Puree. Puree syrup will have fruit pulp mixed in the syrup from 15% or more, helping to enhance the taste of beverage menus that have pulp ingredients. It is popularly used to make smoothies, smoothies, can be used instead of fresh fruit, or using Puree together with fresh fruit will help reduce the use of fresh fruit by 30%, no need to add more syrup, giving a taste similar to smoothies with fresh fruit at a lower cost per glass, and is also easy to store, can be stored longer than fresh fruit, resulting in increased profits.

The first puree syrup that we will introduce is Pureto Concentrated syrup mixed with fruit pulp, carefully selected ingredients to make puree. It can be used in a variety of menus, both drinks and desserts. It can be used as a topping on desserts, ice cream, bingsu, cakes, and can be used instead of fresh fruit in smoothies or blended drinks.

Pureto Syrup is a quality puree at an affordable price. There are 6 flavors in total: strawberry, apple, peach, mango, lychee, and blueberry. It helps reduce the cost of using real fruit, increasing the value of smoothie menus. It is suitable for professionals such as smoothie shops, ice cream shops, and cafes. Click to see price details and purchase at Makro or order online.

The next syrup is Monin Fruit Based Preparation (Fruit based preparation) or concentrated fruit juice mixed with pulp, a famous brand from France. There are 3 flavors:

Contains 14-36% fruit pulp. Can be used in smoothies instead of fruit or used as a decoration on desserts, ice cream, bingsu, cakes. Click to see price details and purchase at Makro or order online.

The next syrup is Long Beach Fruit Based Preparation, a concentrated fruit syrup with pulp. It comes in 2 flavors: Long Beach Mixed Berry with pulp and Long Beach Strawberry with pulp. It is specifically designed for making smoothies and decorating desserts. It contains 20% fruit pulp, giving it a perfectly balanced flavor. Click to see price details and purchase at Makro or order online.