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How Quickly Will Your Blendtec Pay for Itself?
Time is money—especially behind the counter. Whether it’s wasted product, slow prep, or extra cleaning, the wrong blender can cost you more than you think. Blendtec Commercial Blenders are designed to do the opposite: speed up service, cut waste, and free up staff to focus on customers.
Reduce Waste. Increase Efficiency.
Every drop counts—especially when you’re serving hundreds of drinks a day. Traditional blending methods often leave up to 49.5ml of product behind in the jug after each blend. That’s nearly 2.5 litres of waste per day in a busy coffee shop.
Blendtec’s in-cup blending system eliminates this waste by blending directly in the customer’s takeaway cup—cutting out extra steps, mess, and lost ingredients. That means:
- Lower ingredient costs
- Less cleaning and water use
- Faster service
- Reduced environmental impact
Want to see your own potential savings? Try our Waste Reduction Calculator and find out how much money (and product) you could stop pouring down the sink.
Your Operations
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Sales price of drink (excl. VAT): £
**Did you know that certain drinks that contain milk/yogurt can be zero-rated in the UK instead of 20% VAT? Click here for more details.
Why choose a Blendtec Commercial blender?
While a normal Blendtec domestic blender, and even most supposedly 'commercial' blenders could be used in commercial environments, a Blendtec Commercial Blender can be programmed to your various recipes to save you more money in the long run than the blender cost you to start with. So it really is a no-brainer.
If you go into a smoothie or milkshake bar that does not use a Blendtec commercial blender, you'll see staff members monitoring the blender throughout the blending duration to ensure it is mixing correctly. This is a waste of precious staff time and thus your money. Approx. 45 seconds per blend is wasted by staff this way in our field tests. So by getting a Blendtec Commercial blender you could save this wasted time (we'll calculate with just 30 seconds per blend) which also reduces queuing lengths and thus can increase revenue and repeat business.
At £ an hour, guess how much staff time is wasted a year...
Hourly wage must be between £1 and £1000
The time wasted operating 'normal' blenders PER YEAR is:
or £
Must be between 1 and 100
Profit/Loss Account
Based on the above entered details, we've created a basic P&L for you below.
| Revenue | Costs | Gross Profit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per drink | £ | £- | £ |
| Per day | £ | £- | £ |
| Per month | £ | £- | £ |
| Per year | £ | £- | £ |
*Calculated using 4.345 weeks per month and 52.143 weeks per year, adjusted for number of drinks and days open.
Return on Investment / Amortisation
Now that we know how profitable each drink is, let us find out how long it takes until the machine has paid for itself. Enter below the price of the blender you are looking at purchasing and we'll let you know how many days it would take to recoup the investment based on the details you provided.
Total:
Improve your ROI through use of our Blendtec blenders - Zero waste thanks to in-cup blending
You can blend directly in the plastic/paper/metal cup that you give to the customer, thereby saving ingredients, prep-time, cleaning time, blending time and more. The below calculator ONLY looks at savings though ingredients.
Note: This is more than you'd think!... Typically 1-4 shots (1 Shot = 25ml) remains in the jar which is the equivalent of 11-44% of a standard 8oz (225ml) drink. When blending enough for 12oz or 16oz cups, the waste tends to be much higher than for 8oz recipes.
| Reduction in Waste | |
|---|---|
| ml per drink | ml |
| L per day | L |
Reducing waste = reducing the amount of ingredients needed per drink. This impacts our P&L. With revenues staying the same, the reduced costs will improve our profitability:
| Cost (Nitro) | Gross Profit | Gross Profit Margin | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per blend | £ | £ | |
| Per day | £ | £ | |
| Per month | £ | £ | |
| Per year | £ | £ | % |
Increase in Gross Profit
By switching blender, you could increase gross profits by £ of extra profits per year or £ over the 3-year warranty period. You can hopefully now see why our blenders are best-sellers and an amazing investment.
| Increase in Gross Profit | |
|---|---|
| Increase in Gross Profit per year | £ |
| Increase in Gross Profit over 3 years | £ |
| Percentage increase in Gross Profit Margin | % |
The calculations are to provide some form of understanding around the return on investment and are not guaranteed to be without flaws. There are many factors that may influence the calculation of an individual business which are not listed here.