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Tropical Smoothie Cafe

Financing

How fast-growing Tropical Smoothie keeps chugging

 By Jonathan Maze on Sep. 18, 2019

CEO Charles Watson joined "A Deeper Dive" this week to talk about the chain’s food strategies, its digital moves and how smoothies hit the mainstream.

Top 500 Chains

Tropical Smoothie Cafe

 May 03, 2019

Get Top 500 data: sales, units and YOY change, average unit volume, and company/franchise units, as well as Technomic’s analysis, growth forecast and more.

Leadership

Charles Watson named Tropical Smoothie CEO

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 24, 2019

The company says it's on track to generate $1 billion in sales within five years.

Top 500 Chains

Tropical Smoothie Cafe

Jun. 19, 2018
Consumer Trends

Top 5 LTOs in December: Craveability vs. Purchase Intent

By Lizzy Freier on Jan. 01, 2018

Often, the menu items deemed the most craveable aren’t the ones consumers say they’re most likely to purchase.

Financing

Smoothies

By Thomas Henry Strenk on Feb. 01, 2011

Like other aspects of the industry, the smoothie segment has been impacted by the economy.

Franchising’s new headaches

By Sam Smith on Feb. 09, 2015

A game-changing decision is just one of the challenges poking at the franchisee-franchisor relationship.

2016 Top 500 restaurant chains

Jun. 21, 2016

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

Technology

Restaurant Business tests chain apps

By Sara Rush Wirth and Benita Gingerella on Oct. 30, 2016

With most chains trying to score valuable real estate on their customers’ phones, the Restaurant Business team took a look at 25 restaurant apps to see what’s working—and what’s not.

Tropical Smoothie Cafe

Jun. 11, 2017

A health-minded concept boasting a variety of smoothies made with fresh, natural and high-quality ingredients

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