Manitowoc Beverage - Cold beverages heat up c-stores sales

Rising demand for custom ice beverages continues to grow. Four out of five top growth beverage trends include ice¹ and 86% of consumers surveyed had purchased a beverage away from home in the last month². This makes choosing the right beverage dispensing systems and ice machines invaluable to any convenience store operation.

Manitowoc Ice Machines and Servend Beverage Dispensers have a multitude of choices so that you can customize the right ice and beverage dispensing combination for your operation. Select from ice type, number of dispensing valves and even flavor shot options to provide your customers with the option to customize.

Servend's FLAV'R PIC ice/beverage dispenser The FLAV'R PIC gives your customer over a million combinations to customize their drink to their taste...16 beverage selections and up to 8 flavor enhancements. Featuring icepic™ technology, the industry's first built-in ice crusher providing two types of ice (cubed or crushed) from a single ice maker/ice dispenser combination. One ice/beverage dispenser reduces your equipment expense, installation costs, and maintenance. Give your customers the choice they want.

Manitowoc Indigo™ Series Ice Machines Designed for operators who know that ice is critical to their business, the Indigo™ Series ice machine's preventative diagnostics continually monitor itself for reliable ice production. Improvements in cleanability and programmability make your ice machine easy to own and less expensive to operate. Find the right Indigo Series Ice Machine for your operation.

Kysor Panel Systems Grab & Go beverages yielded growth of 11% for convenience stores in 20123 with the largest growth being seen in teas, coconut water, energy drinks and juices. Kysor Panel is the best built, best engineered brand of merchandising coolers, display coolers and refrigerated displays for c-stores. They offer the highest quality materials with improved insulating characteristics. As a result, our systems are built straight, solid and feature uniform finishes. Learn more about Kysor Panel Systems.

Our ice, beverage and chilling experts understand how important a beverage program is to a convenience store. Stop by and talk with us at the NACS Show 2013 booth #6451 about how we can help you grow.

1 Nation’s Restaurant News Consumer demand for beverages rises September 26, 2012
2 Technomic C-STORES DRINK UP THE POSSIBILITIES FOR NEW BEVERAGES October, 2012
3 CSP Daily News | August 26, 2013

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2465 N 22nd St Decatur, IL 62526 US

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Blended Beverage Equipment

Blended beverages and smoothies use to be reserved for the summer months or those lucky enough to live in states where temperatures rarely drop below 40 degrees in the dead of winter. But now consumers are drinking blended frozen beverages year long and are showing no signs of slowing down.

New, inventive or seasonal beverages are a major draw for customers, especially those among the younger demographic. Convenience store operators report an increase of 45% in frozen dispensed beverages in the first half of 2013 and only expect it to continue to grow.

Smoothies are a popular drink for innovation. According to Technomic, they grew by 8.5 percent in 2012. However, frozen blended coffees give a high profit margin, estimated at 65 to 70 percent according to a recent Mintel research.

So how do you make blended frozen beverages profitable while meeting consumer supply and flavor demand options? The Multiplex Blend-In-Cup all-in-one convenient footprint provides the solution. It's so easy to use you can be up and running as a crew-serve or self-serve beverage destination in no time. With the easyToUCH^TM icon based touch screen, making a drink is as easy as the press of a button. Everything you need to operate the machine from making a drink to training to cleaning can all be accomplished through this intuitive control panel.

Take the guesswork and the mess out of making delicious and nutritious smoothies, frappes, slush drinks, blended ice beverages, cocktails and so much more.

 

 Thanks for reading our blog!  Call us today at 800-252-5892 to learn about the services we can provide for your Central Illinois locations!

Illinois Branches:

Eichenauer Services

2465 N 22nd St Decatur, IL 62526 US

Phone: 800-252-5892 Website: http://www.esiquality.com/

Eichenauer Services

106 E McClure Peoria, IL 61603 US

Phone: 800-252-5892 Website: http://www.esiquality.com/

Eichenauer Services

405 S Neil St Champaign, IL 61820 US

Phone: 800-252-5892 Website: http://www.esiquality.com/
 

Illinois Satellites:
Springfield, IL | Bloomington, IL | Effingham, IL | LaSalle/Peru, IL | Mount Vernon, IL | Joliet, IL |
Quad Cities, IL (Moline, East Moline, Rock Island) | Marion, IL |
Metro East, IL (Belleville, Collinsville, Edwardsville, O'Fallon, Fairview Heights)