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Why High-End Restaurants Are Turning to Soft Serve for Profit and Making it Gourmet

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Last month, The New York Post highlighted how upscale restaurants are shifting to soft-serve ice cream as a cost-cutting dessert option, offering diners nostalgic flavors in creative ways. For restaurant owners, this shift brings a unique opportunity to reduce expenses while maintaining high-quality offerings. As The Fork points out, the terms "cost" and "cutting" are always music to a restaurant's financial ears, especially when paired with soft serve's high margins and low labor requirements, making it a smart economic choice. Why Are Restaurants Embracing Soft Serve? High Profit Margins: One of the major reasons soft serve is catching on in restaurants is the impressive...

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Air-Cooled vs. Water-Cooled Ice Cream Machines: Which Is Right for You?

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Whether batch freezers or soft-serve dispensers, ice cream machines work by transferring heat from the ice cream mix to freeze it. This heat is then removed from the machine using either air or water. Let’s delve into the key differences between air-cooled and water-cooled ice cream machines.

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What Type of Machine Should I Buy For My Mexican Restaurant?

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  What Types of Machines Should I Buy For My Mexican Restaurant? Enhancing your Mexican restaurant with a frozen drink machine can be a game-changer. Your patrons will relish the diverse beverage options these machines bring to the table. It's worth noting that many of our satisfied clients have not only boosted their profit margins but also recouped their investments quickly. These full-service machines are capable of churning out dozens of pitchers filled with delicious frozen drinks within an hour, all while taking up a reasonable amount of restaurant space. From classic margaritas to tropical pina coladas and the increasingly...

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Why Invest In A Used Ice Cream Machine?

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Ice Cream Machines: Why Buy Used Instead of New Before we started Slices Concession in 2008, we owned and operated a Gelato and Frozen Dessert shop for 5+ years. Since then, we’ve helped a large variety of businesses start their own frozen dessert operations. We’ve helped everyone from small gas stations to large frozen yogurt and confectionary businesses. Selling frozen dessert can produce profit margins of up to 90%. Making the decision to invest in a used ice cream machine is the first step in helping you increase your bottom line as soon as possible. Reason One: Pricing and Value Retention...

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Spotlight Piece: R N A Ice Cream

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Slices Concession interviewed Ralph from R n A Ice Cream, a popular ice cream truck in New York City. He searched online and found out about Slices Concession due to seeing the great reviews. Ralph states that Slices Concession is the fastest company to get in touch with. Ralph's main point of contact was with managing partner, Chino Leong. "The buying process was very smooth," says Ralph, "even though Slices Concession is located states away." Ralph got into the ice cream industry while working in a school district where he realized the local area had no ice cream trucks. Ralph...

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