It’s a crazy world, restaurants, shops, bars, cafes, ‘pop-up’ comedy spots, you name it, they’re popping up in every major city in the world. This type of temporary POS is great for the seasonal juice bar, but what do you need to set up a juice rig?

Maximum flexibility and reliability

Here are some suggestions from us, we hope they make sense and help. One of the things that the picky juice customer is now looking for is cold pressed juice, this basically rules out using a centrifugal juicer to make the juices. The problem here is the huge black hole in the availability of small commercial cold-press juicers. Therefore, to offer cold-pressed juices, we recommend using one or more heavy-duty household vertical slow juicers, this will give you small, portable juicers that can withstand heavy use, are quiet, efficient, and high-performance. We recommend looking at these juicers:

The KT2200 vertical slow juicer

Greenis F-9010 Vertical Slow Juicer

and Omega GREEN slow juicers

The idea here is to spread the workload across multiple juicers to allow them to cool down between juicing sessions and keep the life of the machine for as long as possible, while also giving your juice bar a little extra reliability. if there is a problem with one of the juicers. Multiple juicers will also allow for a good production rate when business is dynamic. If you use the same make and model, you will get interchangeable parts. The juicers above draw around 250 watts each and are an inductive load so this opens up possibilities for solar powered juice bars. A good rooftop solar panel combined with a deep cycle battery bank and an inverter can give you all the power you need.

A good blender is also required, a decent blender will blend soft fruits and fleshy fruits and vegetables and serve as a tool for blending ice and chilling drinks before serving. Blenders can be very tense pieces of equipment, run at high speeds, and can get hit a bit with normal use, so try to get a good quality blender or mixer, like a BarTec professional blender, we recommend the 435 or 329cc . . However, make sure your power supply can handle these loads.

The theater of live juice making

Running machines, noise, action, and products flying through the venue make for a great show and we highly recommend this to be a part of your pop-up juice bar or cafe, however to survive you will need to take advantage of the periods busy, so you must make each juice. Sorting can slow things down too much. You can maximize profit potential by making ready-to-mix juices into your cold-press juices or even filling juice bottles and capping with ready-to-use juice cocktails.

All or nothing

Customers won’t be arriving in a steady stream, it will be quiet groups and spells, so prepare for the nature of things, we’ve previously filled a kiddie bath tub with ice and water as an attractive ‘cold room’ for ready-to-use products. . juices

Wheat grass, shots, juice enhancers, and protein powders

Another attractive way to boost the trade is by offering a selection of juice enhancers, such as wheatgrass shots (either alone as tequila or mixed with juices and smoothies) or powdered superfoods. BE CAREFUL here as these things have potent flavors that are not to everyone’s taste and we highly recommend that you get a separate wheatgrass juicer like a 6-in-1 Matstone juicer, this will allow you to produce wheatgrass shots Unlimited without the powerful mega green juice that contaminates everything else. Freshly squeezed wheatgrass has a great aroma; it will attract customers to you.

Complete commercial machines

When you’re busy you may want to switch to a full commercial or industrial juicer, but be prepared, these machines are large, heavy, and time-consuming to clean. However, they are practically indestructible and when volumes increase, they are the beasts you need. We recommend the Robot Coupe, Santos and Nutrifaster juicers.

OK GOOD LUCK to anyone starting a new business, you have our respect and support! Let us know how we can help!