Upselling a frozen drink is often just a matter of offering a bigger cup. At 20oz these are the largest serve in the range, and they cover more than slush: smoothies, iced coffee, milkshakes and soft drinks all work in the same vessel, which suits leisure venues, holiday parks, cinemas, events caterers and convenience retail.
Material and durability
Thick-grade PET is the important detail. It gives the cup enough wall strength to be gripped firmly without flexing or buckling, which is exactly what a large, heavy frozen drink demands, and it stays clear so the colour of the product sells itself through the side. PET is also widely recyclable, so a large-format cup does not have to mean a compromise on waste handling. The rim is formed to take our optional domed lids when takeaway or spill protection is required.
Box contents
- 20oz capacity, the largest serve in the slush cup range
- 1,000 cups per box for volume trading
- Thick-grade PET with strong, rigid walls
- Recyclable PET material
- Clear body that displays the drink and its colour
- Compatible with optional domed lids, sold separately
The site this cup is really for
A box of a thousand is not a sampling quantity. It is stock for an operator who already knows frozen drinks sell on their site and wants the large serve permanently on the board, or for a venue whose trade arrives in concentrated bursts: summer at a caravan park, a school holiday run at a cinema, a weekend festival pitch. If frozen drinks are a quiet side line and you turn over a handful of serves on a good day, a smaller cup will move faster and leave less capital sitting on a shelf. Where the 20oz earns its place is on the sites where the queue is long, the weather is doing the selling for you, and running out mid-trade costs more than the case ever did.
Pricing the large serve
The economics of a big cup are usually better than operators expect, because the cup, the lid and the staff time are close to identical whichever size is poured; only the syrup and the ice move. That is what makes the upsell worth prompting at the counter rather than leaving it to the customer to spot. If you are setting a price ladder across your cold drinks for the first time, our guide to what a takeaway serve actually earns works through the same arithmetic for hot takeaway, and it transfers almost directly to slush.
Storing and issuing stock
Cups arrive nested in sleeves, so store them stacked and dry, ideally off the floor and away from anything with a strong smell, since PET will pick one up over a long summer. Break out only what a shift needs and leave the rest sleeved, which keeps rims clean and stops staff working through a half-open box. Order ahead of the forecast rather than behind it: the point of case quantities is that a hot Saturday never turns into a supply problem, and because delivery timescales vary by item and destination, a bank holiday order is one to confirm before you place it rather than after.
Finishing the serve
Set your slush machine portioning to the 20oz fill line so a large is a large whoever is on the counter, and decide early whether drinks leave the premises. If they do, order domed lids, straws and spoons alongside the cups so the serve is finished properly and nobody is mopping the floor between customers. Matching lids, straws and slush accessories keep the counter looking considered rather than assembled from whatever was in the van.
Where a smaller cup wins
Choose a smaller cup where the audience is younger, where drinks are consumed standing in a confined space, or where your price point cannot carry a large serve. Choose the 20oz where you want a single cup line to cover slush, smoothies and iced drinks at once, since one size on the board simplifies pricing, ordering and staff training in one move.
Good fit for
- Holiday parks, caravan sites and seaside kiosks trading through a season
- Cinemas, bowling and leisure centres selling to groups
- Events and festival caterers who cannot restock mid-day
- Convenience retail running slush alongside soft drinks
- Any operator who wants one cup size to cover the whole cold drinks menu
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