Tropical Smoothie Cafe

The take-and-bake pizza chain’s new design shrinks the customer area and moves the assembly line to the back. It is using incentives to get franchisees to remodel their stores quickly.

Financing

Tropical Smoothie Café works to keep its momentum

The smoothie-and-food chain has been a strong grower for years and turned on the jets so far in 2021. It hopes to keep all its new customers.

Financing

Levine Leichtman acquires Tropical Smoothie Café

By Jonathan Maze on Sep. 08, 2020

The private equity firm partnered with management on the deal for the fast-growing chain.

Food

Menu news of the week: Dec. 2, 2019

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 02, 2019

Here’s a roundup of current menu highlights and LTOs.

Leadership

Tropical Smoothie Cafe adds a new CMO, digital exec

By Heather Lalley on Oct. 18, 2019

The fast-casual chain has made a number of C-suite shifts in recent years as it prepares to grow.

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

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