Ideas for setting up a mobile or pop-up juice bar

It’s a crazy world, restaurants, shops, bars, cafes, comedy venues, you name it are popping up in major cities around the world. This type of temporary outlet is ideal for the seasonal juice bar, but what do you need to set up a smart juice team?

Maximum flexibility and reliability

Here are some suggestions from us, we hope they make sense and help. One of the things the discerning juicer is now looking for is a cold pressed juice, this basically rules out the use of a centrifugal juicer to make the juices. The problem here is the huge black hole in the availability of small commercial cold press juicers. Therefore, to offer cold-pressed juices, we recommend using one or more heavy-duty home vertical slow juicers, this will give you small, portable juicers that can withstand heavy use, are quiet, efficient and high-performing. We recommend looking at these juicers:

The vertical slow juicer KT2200

The vertical slow juicer Greenis F-9010

and Omega VERT slow juicers

The idea here is to spread the workload across multiple juicers to allow them to cool down between juicing sessions and keep the life of the machine as long as possible, while also giving your juice bar reliability. additional if there is a problem with one of the juicers. Multiple juicers will also allow for a good production rate when business is brisk. Sticking to the same make and model will give you interchangeable parts. Previous juicers draw around 250 watts each and are an inductive load, so this opens up possibilities for solar powered juice bars. A good rooftop solar array combined with a deep cycle battery bank and inverter can give you all the power you need.

A good blender is also required, a decent blender will blend soft fruits and meaty items and serve as a blending tool to blend ice and easily chill beverages before serving. Blenders can be very stressful pieces of equipment, they run at high speeds and can bang a bit with normal use, so try to get a good quality blender or mixer like a BarTec professional blender, we recommend the 435 or 329cc. . However, make sure your power supply can handle these loads!

Live Juicing Theater

The machines running, the noise, the action and the products flying around the place make for a great show and we totally recommend making this part of your juice bar or pop-up cafe, however to survive you will need to capitalize on the periods busy, so make each juice. tidying up can slow things down too much. You can maximize profit potential by pre-mixing ready-to-mix juices with your cold-pressed juices or even by filling juice bottles and capping them with pre-made juice cocktails.

All or nothing

Customers won’t be arriving in a constant stream, it will be groups and quiet periods, so be prepared for the nature of things, we’ve previously filled a kids camping tub with water and ice as an attractive “cold store” for ready-to-eat products. use. juices

Wheat grass, shots, juice enhancers and protein powders

Another attractive way to drive commerce is by offering a selection of juice enhancers, such as wheatgrass shots (either neat as tequila or blended into juices and smoothies) or powdered superfoods. BE CAREFUL here as these things have powerful flavors that are not to everyone’s taste and we highly recommend getting a separate wheatgrass juicer such as a Matstone 6 in 1 juicer this will allow you to produce unlimited shots of wheatgrass without the potent mega green juice contaminating everything else. Freshly squeezed wheatgrass is a great scent; will draw customers to you.

Complete commercial machinery

When you’re busy, you may want to switch to full commercial or industrial juicers, but be prepared, these machines are big, heavy, and time consuming to clean. However, they are virtually indestructible and when the volumes increase, they are the beasts you need. We recommend juicers from Robot Coupe, Santos and Nutrifaster.

OK GOOD LUCK to anyone starting a new business, you have our respect and support! Let us know how we can help!