Botrista is a new cloud-connected beverage machine that allows restaurants to make complex, craft drinks in-house. The dispensing hardware connects to a library of hundreds of drink recipes—ranging from lemonade, fusion fruit tea, tea lattes, agua fresca, and mocktails, among others—that bartenders and barista can have made with a click of a button. Restaurants can choose between six and 20 beverages to serve at a given time.
Restaurants pay a monthly service fee to maintain the hardware and pay between $1.50 to $1.85 per beverage, however, the hardware itself is free. The Botrista system will also enable restaurants to easily track their inventory and can reduce the number of employees needed on-hand to curate drinks.
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Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Cloud-connected Beverage Machines
- Restaurants can tap into the trend of cloud-connected beverage machines to provide complex, craft drinks in-house with ease.
- Library of Drink Recipes
- The availability of a library with hundreds of drink recipes provides opportunities to create unique and customizable experiences for customers.
- Streamlined Inventory Management
- Using cloud-connected dispensing hardware can help restaurants reduce the amount of inventory they carry and streamline their inventory management process.
Where This Applies
- Restaurant Industry
- Botrista targets the restaurant industry as a solution for maintaining profitability and efficiency with custom drink-making.
- Beverage Industry
- Beverage producers and suppliers can partner with cloud-connected drink machines like Botrista to provide customized drink recipes and expand their reach into the restaurant industry.
- Technology Industry
- The integration of powerful cloud computing technology in the Botrista service can provide opportunities for technology companies to partner with beverage makers and foodservice brands to sell specialized hardware and software systems.
