Soft ice cream has come a long way since its beginnings in the 1950’s and now offers a wide variety of options. Whether you sell in a cone, oysters, wafer or waffle cones with a “99” flakes, or with sprinkles of confectionary, fresh fruit or syrup toppings added, or you choose to enhance your menu by offering mouth watering sundaes such as banana splits, knicker bocker glories or use as a topping for an apple pie, one thing’s for sure you can make extreme profits and quickly recover your capital outlay.
For example it’s really easy to make 75% profit, making the sale of soft serve ice cream very lucrative. Not only will it increase your profit levels, it will enhance your menu, increase the perception of your business, increase your customer footfall and allow you to beat your competition.
For example; by selling as few as 50 small cones a day over 200 days you could make an amazing £10,500, enough to recover the cost of our smallest machine in approximately 125 selling days. Alternatively you could selling 15 desserts a day over 300 days and make a sizable £10,575 again, enough to recover the cost of our smallest machine in 125 selling days. And if you were to sell both cones and sundaes at this level you could recover your outlay in 65 days!
Costings based on a small cone selling at £1.50, less VAT and product costs of 15p, and a banana split sundae selling at £3.50, less VAT and product costs 45p.
Another popular trend for soft ice cream is the addition of the eight flavour FlavorBurst system which is quite remarkable as it injects up to eight delicious flavours into the soft ice cream at the point of dispense, with some customers claiming a 300% uplift in sales since acquiring the system, particularly good if you have to compete with other soft serve ice cream retailers nearby.
New FlavorBurst™ flavours available now
Soft Ice Cream:
Blueberry, Peanut Butter, Caramel, Tropical Orange and Blue Hawaii Coconut
Thick Shake:
Hazelnut, Pistachio, Caramel, Tropical Orange and Blueberry
Current FlavourBurst™ flavours:
Soft Ice Cream:
Raspberry, Bubble Gum, Chocolate, Strawberry, Black Cherry, Butterscotch, Butter Pecan, Cool Mint, Blue Goo, Banana Ripple, Mocha Cappuccino
Thick Shake:
Chocolate Swirl, Strawberry, Black Cherry, Bubble Gum, Butterscotch, Butter Pecan, Cool Mint, Blue Goo, Mocha Cappuccino
*The FlavorBurst™ system needs to be attached to a soft serve ice cream machine which is available at an additional cost.Take a look at the potential return on investment with the addition of a FlavorBurst™ system…
Profit Example
Selling Price (2.5oz cone) £1.50
Less VAT (at 20%) £0.25
Sub Total £1.25
Less product costs (inc. cone) £0.15
Nett profit per cone £1.10
Sell on average 50 cones a day over a six day week
Average daily profit £55.00
Selling days over the year 300
Nett annual profit £16,500
Many of our customers only claim a 100% uplift in sales with the addition of a FlavorBurst system, therefore based on these claims your annual profit would become £33,000
Subject to approval, you could lease rent a FlavorBurst system over a 3 year period for only £5* per day.
*Based on a lease rental amount of £38.50 per £1000 over 365 days.
For more information on the FlavorBurst system and our range of soft serve machines, please call free on 0800 838896, e-mail us at sales@taylor-company.co.uk or visit our website at www.taylor-company.co.uk
See our special offer launch prices in this month’s e-bulletin.
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