Adding a frozen beverage machine to your outlet is an excellent way to stay on trend while opening a new revenue stream with potentially high profit margins. As you explore the options available, you’ll need to make important decisions, such as what type of drink you want to offer and the flavors you will stock. Many frozen drink dispensers serve a single flavor per barrel, but what if there was a way to offer much more variety in a small space? You can do precisely that with multi-flavored frozen beverage machines from FBD.
When variety is important to your patrons, give them a way to mix, match, and make their own combinations. Here’s a quick look into what you should know about multi-flavor machines.
Understanding the Multi-Flavor Frozen Beverage Machine
Multi-flavor machines are an innovative step forward from the frozen drink dispensers you already know. Instead of using multiple barrels to offer different taste options, these units rely on just one or two barrels that contain a “base flavor.” Additional “flavor shots,” using other bag-in-box syrup products, mix in with the base flavor during dispensing to create a variation on the base flavor. With just one base and four flavor shots, customers can try up to sixteen different drink combinations from a single machine. Imagine 16 or even 32 flavor combinations from units a mere 16 or 17 inches wide.
Each machine uses additional pumps and valves to keep flavor shots separate from the base flavor in each barrel. The principle is generally similar to the multi-flavor soda machine style popular today. Using a touchscreen interface, customers interactively select the flavor modifications they want before dispensing. With this functionality, you can expand your menu offerings without significantly increasing the complexity of your frozen drink hardware.
FBD offers several options across diverse product lines for establishments interested in multi-flavor dispensers. These include the 37X series, which is most suitable for smaller locations with steady traffic but not high volume. You may also opt for multi-flavor configurations in the 77X series, a line better suited for high volume and consistent serving. You can even choose a 77X machine built to serve frozen cocktails, such as margaritas or daiquiris.
Selecting the right multiple beverage dispenser for your patrons requires balancing an understanding of expected sales versus capacity and variety. Our team can help you zero in on the right version for your business.
The Big Benefits of Choosing a Multi-Flavor Machine
Why invest in a multi-flavor unit instead of a more traditional approach to offering individual flavors? It suits some outlets based on customer demand, space constraints, and other considerations. These machines have advantages beyond simply dispensing what aligns with your business needs. Let’s consider some benefits:
Create more opportunities for sales
With fewer flavors, you might not always capture all the potential sales you could. You may not offer a specific flavor or variation that some customers like. A multi-flavor machine offers more variety without increasing your hardware footprint. With an interactive display, guests can quickly choose their preferred combination.
These beverages aren’t something patrons can easily enjoy or recreate on their own at home. Like someone might visit their favorite restaurant to enjoy a dish that’s too complex to make at home, multi-flavor machines make your business a beverage destination. With the proper marketing and promotional programs, you can spread awareness of these unique options and continue to drive new sales opportunities.
Offer the novelty of variety
Multi-flavor machines might help drive repeat business from customers curious about trying the other flavor combinations. Flavor shots and the many variations they create allow shoppers to try something new. Now, many customers may not have seen a multi-flavor frozen drink machine before. The novelty and the opportunity to immediately try something new entice customers.
Serve more flavors in a smaller space
The small footprint of the 37X and 77X MF machines lets you offer variety without the need to overhaul your entire serving space. These units suit convenience stores, movie theaters, bars, and other venues where space-saving measures matter. You can expand what you offer without expanding your space.
Follow flavor trends
Bag-in-box syrup technology makes it simple to change what you offer based on audience demand or up-and-coming trends. That might mean changing your base flavor or switching up the types of flavor shots you use. That flexibility lets you keep your frozen drink and cocktail offerings fresh and exciting year-round.
You aren’t limited to a single manufacturer of BiB syrups, either. BiB technology applies a universal connector that makes connecting syrups from any provider to your FBD unit simple. Not only can you follow flavor trends, but you can always be on the lookout for new and exciting options from every syrup provider on the market. In other words, you have almost limitless options for flavors and unique combinations.
Why Choose an FBD Multi-Flavor Dispenser?
If you want to tap into the benefits of a multi-flavor machine, why are the units from the 37X and 77X series worth your consideration? With FBD hardware, you’ll find many features to enjoy. Here’s why they should be on your shortlist:
- Multiple machine options with hundreds of individual configurations are made to suit various business types and demand levels.
- Easy, intuitive operation with detailed read-outs that make any troubleshooting processes simpler.
- Large capacity barrels, high continuous pour rates, and faster recovery times enable you to serve through high-volume periods.
- Basic daily cleaning requirements only involve cleaning the unit exterior and drip trays.
- A closed, sealed system that maintains the right environment inside the unit and requires only annual maintenance from a certified technician.
- Robust customer and technical support for FBD customers to simplify installation, operation, maintenance, and more.
Built to be reliable and easy to use, an FBD multi-flavor unit can be a profitable investment for your business.
Explore Whether the Multi-Flavor Strategy is Right for You
Whether it’s multiple varieties of frozen lemonade in the summertime or a menu’s worth of frozen daiquiris behind the bar, multi-flavor machines are an innovative twist on a classic design. With units ideal for venues that see different volume levels, customizing an FBD machine to suit your outlet is simple. A multi-flavor program can benefit movie theaters, bars, restaurants, and many more.
Chat with us today to learn more about how to find the right hardware.
