Smoothie King
Smoothie King
Smoothie King is a privately held New Orleans-area-based franchise company and the premier Smoothie Bar and Nutritional Lifestyle Center in the industry. Smoothie King centers offer to their guests the industry’s first and original nutritional fruit and function-based, fresh blended smoothies. Each “Lifestyle Center” also offers healthy retail product solutions, including sport beverages, energy bars, healthy snacks, vitamin supplements, herbs, minerals, and other sports nutrition products. Smoothie King opened its first store in 1973 and started as the first franchised smoothie bar/health food store business in the United States in 1989. Smoothie King currently has more than 380 units operating in 34 states, including 10 international locations in Seoul, Korea. 1
Based in New Orleans, Smoothie King Nutritional Lifestyle Centers were created with the concept of being a one stop shop. Each center not only sells a variety of nutritious smoothies, they also carry an assortment of dailly vitamins and supplements.Smoothie King has low fat and workout smoothies to accomidate each customers health lifestyles as well as healthy snacks. 2 The Smoothie King Marketing Department provides you with marketing training, a user-friendly marketing manual, promotions and merchandising assistance. The Marketing Department also coordinates seasonal campaigns that are designed to attract and retain guests. 4 Determine whether the Smoothie King idea is right for you. The concept of the company is based on using smoothies and nutritional supplements to help you stay healthy. Learn all you can about the product before you consider opening a franchise. 3 Those who join Smoothie King become part of a family where all members work together for the good of the whole. Smoothie King coordinates on-going seminars and workshops for all franchises. 6 To date, more than 200 million Smoothie King smoothies have been served at 520 locations in 32 states across the United States and in South Korea. Smoothie King has ranked number one in its category for 15 years, and ranked number 109 in the top 500 franchises by Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as ranked number 99 as a top global franchise. 7 No other take-out shop provides as much product information. Customers are handed a chart listing nutritional values for all of the offerings and are invited to “crunch the numbers.” The employees are well trained for questions, and there are many. 10 Each Lifestyle Center also offers healthy retail product solutions, including sports beverages, energy bars, healthy snacks, vitamin supplements, herbs, minerals and other sports nutrition products. Smoothie King opened its first store in 1973 and started as the first franchised smoothie bar/health food store business in the United States in 1989. Smoothie King currently has more than 450 units operating in 32 states, and more than 19 international locations in Seoul, South Korea. 9
