High Profit Branded Drinks
These days everyone is looking for a way to stand out. Looking for a way for your restaurant to be set apart from the crowd and pull in more customers? Why not offer up branded glassware? You have to order glasses anyway, so why not brand them and create an additional revenue source?
Signature Drinks
Nothing makes a special drink even more special than a branded or custom glass. We drink with our eyes too, so make sure that special libation has a glass worthy of the time spent in coming up with the special concoction.
Collectors Items
Many restaurants are offering up their glassware for sale as a memory from an evening or meal. Many patrons also collect glasses from the places that they visit. If you go into a shop in a resort or a restaurant gift shop, you are going to see that there are plenty of shot glasses for sale with the different decorations on them.
Commemorative Items
They are a great way for a company, organization, or private party to commemorate something, such as an anniversary or commeorative event. Or they can be used to help raise money in conjunction with a fundraiser. Branded glasses can be given out at banquets, weddings, fundraisers and other types of events - you name it! Offering up branded glasses as an option for customer events or even your own shindigs is just good business sense.
A Glass for Everyone
As many different people as there are in the world, there is a glass that is going to suit anyone. There are highball glasses, wine glasses, water glasses, and shot glasses. You don't have to worry about what type of glasses to choose for promotional purposes, because there will always be someone that will enjoy the choice that you make for your restaurant.
Inexpensive
That's right - branded glasses can be an inexpensive item to use for either your restaurant or your patron. They offer a lot of exposure for a little bit of money, especially when you factor in that you are going to get advertising every time the glass is used.
No Matter what the glass looks like though, it is still important that what is in the glass tastes good! Here are some easy combinations to try out in your operation.
Mint and Berry Lemonade
4 lemons, sliced
1 cup sugar
1 pint berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and/or raspberries)
1 quart water
1 quart club soda or seltzer
Place lemons, sugar and water in a pan and heat to melt the sugar. Chill. Add half of the mint leaves to the chilled lemon/sugar mixture and smash with a muddle or wooden spoon for 1 minute. Strain using cheese cloth to remove the lemon rind, seeds and mint. Add berries and the remaining mint leaves and lightly mash them.
Pour over crushed ice - shake in a cocktail shaker.
Garnish with lemon slice or mint leaf.
Easy Strawberry Lemonade
8 oz prepared lemonade (yellow, not pink)
2 oz sliced frozen strawberries
Combine ingredients - stir. Pour over ice and serve. Garnish with fresh strawberry and lemon wedge.
Pumpkin Spiced Coffee
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1/4 tsp. graound ginger
Add the above spices to your favorite freshly brewed coffee.
Contributed by:
Executive Chef Daryl Shular
Performance Foodservice - Milton's
Kyle Cottengim
Director of Marketing and Training
Performance Foodservice - Milton's