Should I add Coffee to Smoothie Menu?

My first year of business and the weather in Michigan is killing my sales.  I am selling Smoothies & Shakes.  When the sun is out and above 75, sales are great.  However, the weather in Michigan has been unusually cold.  My 50,000 spectator Car Show Event this weekend is only going to barely hit 60 degrees.  Should I invest another $400 for Bunn Airpot Coffee Brewer and add coffee to my menu?  Any food ideas too?  Or do I just stick with what I have a wait for better weather at future events?

MamaG


My first year of business and the weather in Michigan is killing my sales.  I am selling Smoothies & Shakes.  When the sun is out and above 75, sales are great.  However, the weather in Michigan has been unusually cold.  My 50,000 spectator Car Show Event this weekend is only going to barely hit 60 degrees.  Should I invest another $400 for Bunn Airpot Coffee Brewer and add coffee to my menu?  Any food ideas too?  Or do I just stick with what I have a wait for better weather at future events?

Why $400.00 why not this one we use it and like it so far

I was advised to get an Airpot Brewer and not an Urn style. 

If you are going to do coffee, and not serve lots of it, I would go the air pot routs. Keeps the coffee much fresher, but for a one time deal with large attendance, buy the $125 urn.
 

Yes

My advice is to offer a coffee smoothie. We have them at my cafe,and even when its cold, they sell.I have a $100.00 Bunn maker( bought at a local department store) which brews 10 cups.If you need more, it brews in seconds.

we do this coffee and also hot chocolate, we just use the coffee maker to heat the water, when we are not vending the wife does hair, for 32 years now, and her customers really like this coffee, obviously it is not a fancy coffee but it's coffee, both her and I have never tasted coffee so we take her beauty shop customers word that it is good, she was using instant before her customers told about this stuff
 

 
 

Buy any unit Bunn makes and get a bun warmer. It's a hot plate thing with two separate warmer areas. I do an indoor event in January that is big and coffee is a big sales item all day. But I bought a brand new Bunn home unit and the two pot warmer, two extra pots and I make 3 pots in about 4 and 1/2 minutes and we make coffee all day this way. It works great and the coffee is always fresh so we sell more. 

KurtSara


we do this coffee and also hot chocolate, we just use the coffee maker to heat the water, when we are not vending the wife does hair, for 32 years now, and her customers really like this coffee, obviously it is not a fancy coffee but it's coffee, both her and I have never tasted coffee so we take her beauty shop customers word that it is good, she was using instant before her customers told about this stuff

FYI........this is not good coffee.....