Many coffee shops and cafés use fun names, crave-worthy limited time offers (LTOs) and other methods to drive sales of specialty beverages. Strategically positioning your smoothies and coolers—whether or not they contain coffee—is beneficial to your school meal program for a few reasons:
With eight easy YoGo Cooler recipes ranging from Mocha to Cinnamon Swirl, there’s a lot to work with. Here are a few ways to do it:
Incorporate your teams’ name
Combine your team name with an appealing name for a cold beverage:
Use alliteration
If you’re the Mountain Lions, offer a Mountain Lion Mocha Cooler!
Try a pun!
Are you the Knights? What about serving students a Hazel-Knight Cooler? Get more naming ideas from the YoGo Cooler Recipe Book here.
This is a strategy top coffee shop chains often use to their advantage. We’ve developed special seasonal smoothies with a coffee shop-inspired twist, like the Pumpkin Spice Cooler for fall and the Chocolate Mint cooler for winter, but don’t be afraid to come up with your own! LTOs could be offered during homecoming week, leading up to prom, one-day-only on Valentine’s Day, after sports teams’ victories and more.
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Interested in even more free downloads, recipes and inspiration? Check out Good Times Café, a fast-casual concept we’ve developed specifically for K-12 operators like you.