Lotus Energy Concentrate Lets You Customize Iced Drinks

While demand continues to grow for coffee alternatives that give customers an equivalent caffeine boost, Lotus Plant Power has been providing a delicious solution since 2007. Lotus Energy Concentrates contain as much caffeine as coffee (thanks to tasteless green coffee extract), and are also fortified with amino acids and B vitamins. 

Lotus’s mission is to “help revitalize the human system from the stressors of daily life with clean plant power,” which has helped make them the number-one selling plant-based energy concentrate in the U.S.

With consistently strong demand for iced drinks, Lotus can put your cafe ahead of trends and front and center in the custom energy drink space. Instead of individual, single-serving cans, Lotus’s 64-oz pump bottles let you create custom energy drinks in whatever flavor combinations you or your customers wish. 

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Topics: Blended Drinks



Choosing the Right Chai For Your Coffeeshop

Let's talk chai, shall we? And let's start at the very beginning, with a question a lot of people ask.

What is chai?

Traditionally, chai is a combination of black tea, honey and spices -- a combination that comes with a long and storied history. While it originated in India thousands of years ago, it has also been a well-loved drink in American coffee shops and restaurants for a long time.

Its ubiquity on beverage menus across the nation means that customers have specific expectations for what chai should taste like -- and that those expectations can vary dramatically because there are so many variations on that standard combination of black tea, honey and spices. While there are infinite twists on the ingredients, ratios and preparation methods for chai, choosing the right chai drink for your drink is about meeting your customers expectations and offering them a consistent experience. Here’s how you can do that.

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Topics: Teas & Chai



Tea 101 For Coffee Shop & Restaurant Owners

Like the elegant fold of your napkins or the complex, nuanced flavor of the espresso you use for your Americanos, the tea you serve to your customers can provide an elevated, compelling and memorable experience. A carefully designed tea program offers your customers more than a beverage -- it offers them a unique encounter with sensation and service that they can only find in your restaurant or cafe.

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Topics: Teas & Chai



How to Choose A Flavoring Syrup Brand

What brands of flavoring syrup do you carry?

We currently offer three different flavoring syrup brands:

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Topics: Sauces & Syrups



Everything You Need to Know About Non- Dairy Milks

Non-dairy milks (also known as plant-based or vegan milks) have exploded in popularity over the past five years. This popularity only continues to grow as Americans explore vegan alternatives to dairy in an attempt to improve their health, lessen their environmental impact, or both.

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Topics: Alternative Milks



Frappe Powder 101: Everything You Should Know About Frappe Powders & Bases

 

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Topics: Blended Drinks



Smoothie Concentrate: Why It’s The Best Choice for Coffee Shop Owners

 

Adding smoothie products to your menu can offer you incredibly high profit margins. But maintaining great profitability on these products comes down to precise stock management and production efficiency. And that’s where smoothie concentrate comes in. Here’s why we recommend smoothie concentrates over the fresh or frozen fruit bases owners sometimes instinctively turn to when adding smoothies to their menu.

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Topics: Blended Drinks