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beverages

Healthy Thirst
Juice-based beverages, whether premade or house-squeezed,

lemonade sodas, and vanilla crème sodas. Tea drinks feature

are especially appealing to health-conscious diners, according

lots of fruit ﬂavors.

to insights from Nestle Professional. Health-oriented fast-casual
operations, college and university dining services, and business

The bakery's new tea ﬂavors include Pomegranate, Huckleberry

and industry venues - in particular - are experimenting with

Lemon, and Triple Black, which is a blend of blackberry, black

distinctive juices and blends, which can be merchandised on tap.

raspberry, and black currants. Lemonade soda ﬂavors include
Triple Black, Pomegranate, Lime and Strawberry, Pomegranate,

Nestlé Vitality and Sunkist offer ﬂavors including apple

and Blueberry Mint.

and orange 100% frozen concentrate, according to Nestle
Professional. Other possibilities include ginger beer, the

Three Brothers Bakery is introducing frappe ﬂavors that

fermented-tea beverage known as kombucha, ﬂavored nut

include Fig Mascarpone, Horchata, and Thunderdome. The

milks (such as Cinnamon Date Almond Milk), and even bever-

Fig Mascarpone frappe features homemade ﬁg preserves and

ages normally associated with cleanses, such as a combina-

Mascarpone cheese, blended with milk and ice and topped off

tion of vinegar, lemon juice, turmeric, ginger, and cayenne,

with whipped cream.

according to Nestle Professional.
The Horchata is made from toasted rice, toasted pecans,
Retailers are jumping on the fruit juice-based beverage

and Vietnamese cinnamon blended with milk and ice. The

bandwagon.

Thunderdome features cold brew coffee with an extra shot
of house-made vanilla syrup, blended with milk and ice and

Starbucks' new Berry Prickly Pear Frappuccino is a blended

topped with a double shot of espresso.

beverage that features a mango Frappuccino blended crème
poured over a strawberry and prickly pear fruit puree, which

Coffee is optional in both the Horchata and Fig Mascarpone

also features notes of hibiscus, passionfruit and lime. The drink is

frappe. These new ﬂavors join the existing frappe and latte

ﬁnished with another layer of strawberry prickly pear fruit puree.

menu, which includes favorites like Dark Chocolate, Vanilla,
Salted Caramel, Anise with Cardamom Vanilla and Hazelnut.

Combining cream with strawberries, Cinnabon is introducing
a new Strawberries & Cream Chillatta. The blended beverage

"Our new drink offerings are the perfect complement to our

features fresh strawberries and sweet cream.

scratch-made desserts," says Bobby Jucker, Three Brothers
Bakery co-owner. "The coffee program was originally created

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews is serving up strawberries

for our customers to enjoy a new product we care deeply

in its new Freckled Lemonade Smoothie, which features strawber-

about, and now we are able to really get creative and introduce

ries, strawberry puree, lemon juice and vanilla soft serve.

new, exciting drink items to our customers. Everyone knows it's
hot in Houston, so we want to be the place where customers

Houston's Three Brothers Bakery is rolling out new iced bever-

can come enjoy a gourmet coffee, iced tea, or refreshing

ages including house-made tea syrups, inventive frappes,

frappe, along with any of our other sweet treats."

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