Take a sip of innovation this season! Through ready-to-make beverage solutions, you can improve your back-of-house efficiency and rev up your response time. Explore the simple joy of sweetness through exciting new drinks fueled by consumer insights.
First, the non-alcoholic beverage category offers a fantastic opportunity for culinary creativity. Let your consumers unwind with a pinch of sweetness after a hectic day. Next, pair unfamiliar flavors with well-established flavors – 40% of consumers agree trying new flavors or ingredients is less intimidating when paired with a familiar flavor. (Mintel) Finally, looking ahead to autumn and winter, shift your beverage menu with limited-time offers (LTOs) to reflect the season and win over your customers. Trade your light and refreshing summer drinks for rich, inviting winter favorites. Celebrate the season with our flavors!
No matter where your beverage menu leads you, don’t undervalue the importance of custom-flavored beverage solutions. Giraffe Foods is an industry leader when it comes to developing custom flavors for industrial, retail, food service, and bakery applications. We’ve been around for over 25 years, and we take advantage of our wealth of knowledge every time we take on a new challenge. We’ll never try to shoehorn your concept into a premade solution; instead, we’ll work with you to develop custom flavors that fit your unique needs and enhance your food’s value.
Let’s explore how we can boost your retail presence, your kitchen’s efficiency, or your menu’s deliciousness through sweet-sour, floral-forward, pre-made beverage solutions.
Fabulously Fruit-Forward Bases
Fruits offer guilt-free sweetness as well as a scrumptious way to beat the heat in the summertime. Take your customers on a journey around the world with exciting fruit flavors like passion fruit, dragon fruit, prickly pear, and açaí, but don’t forget about beloved classics like strawberry and orange. At Giraffe Foods, we offer delicious fruit flavors like these as beverage concentrates, which you can dilute with water to craft crave-able, flavor-forward drinks. We can also elevate these fabulously fruity beverages with floral flavors, like hibiscus, rose, lavender, orange blossom, cherry blossom, and elderflower. Who wouldn’t like a dash of flower power?
To relax after busy days, many modern consumers are looking for non-alcoholic drink options. But whether you’re aiming for boozy beverages or alcohol-free drinks, our talented team is ready to help you create the flavors of tomorrow.
- Blackberry & Manuka Honey Smash: Succulent blackberries combine with authentic Manuka honey for a sweet and slightly tart cocktail.
- Blood Orange & Elderflower Paloma: Subtle and fragrant elderflower gives an elegant lift to refreshing, colorful blood orange.
- Guava & Lychee Soda: Bright and tropical, this soda flavoring combines two delectable and slightly floral on-the-rise fruits.
- Rose Lemonade: Give tart lemonade, a true summertime classic, a flavor boost with fragrant and sophisticated rose.
- Watermelon & Jalapeño Margarita: Spicy jalapeño provides an unexpected kick to sweet, refreshing watermelon.
- Açaí Toasted Coconut: Toasting the coconut brings out the fruit’s nutty depth, and it pairs beautifully with tart, earthy, and undeniably fruity açaí.
Delectable Dessert-Inspired Beverages
Enjoyment can take so many different forms: pleasure, entertainment, recreation, joy, fun, relaxation, comfort . . . On a daily basis, consumers are seeking these emotions, and sweetly flavored drinks can satisfy that yearning at every time of day. Modern consumers love to drink their favorite desserts, from over-the-top coffee-based drinks to vibrant smoothies. In the middle of a busy day, an on-the-go dessert drink can bring a little extra joy to everyday life. Many consumers prefer these beverages to be on the smaller side – they hit the spot without wasting a gulp or stirring up guilt.
Mixing and matching flavors between food formats – especially in convenient food formats like to-go drinks – is a winning strategy to help you sell more. Pair that delightful strawberry scone with a chocolate-covered strawberry smoothie – yum! In addition, consider how you might use a single product in multiple menu items for efficiency. Dark Chocolate Sauce might be stirred into an iced latte, drizzled on muffins, or act as a dip for churros. Cinnamon-Infused Maple Syrup could be mixed into an autumn-inspired cocktail, provide a glaze for pumpkin cheesecake, or be drizzled atop mini apple cakes. Leverage these flavors to create unique, memorable menu items.
Efficiency can take other forms as well. You could pinpoint two staple ingredients, like coffee and chocolate, and go wild creating flavor combinations based around them: a classic mocha with a Mexican spice twist, dreamy hot chocolate affogato, biscotti paired with a chocolate-espresso dipping sauce . . .
The talented team of culinologists at Giraffe Foods can work with you to create a variety of premium, crave-worthy beverage solutions for satisfyingly sweet drinks:
- Cheesecake: Slightly sour and rich, cheesecake syrup adds a heavenly creaminess to frappuccinos or smoothies and can be paired with fruits like strawberry or raspberry.
- Cinnamon Bun/Cinnamon Roll: Everyone loves a cinnamon roll! Warm, woodsy, and aromatic cinnamon combines with sweet brown sugar and buttery flavor notes. Add to a luxurious winter cocktail or a classic latte.
- Brownie: Jam-packed with rich chocolate flavor, brownie adds depth to a variety of drinks. It also pairs beautifully with a variety of fun accompaniments: salted caramel, peppermint mocha, peanut butter, s’mores, and more!
- Cotton Candy: Delightfully sugary and prettily pastel, cotton candy often includes strawberry and vanilla notes. Give your drink some whimsy!
- Pie/Tart: An American classic! Impart some nostalgia with tart, sweet, jammy fruit enhanced with spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Apple works beautifully in colder months, while peach adds juicy brightness in summertime.
- Coffee Caramel/Coffee Chocolate: Caramel is one of the “Top Predominant Flavors” and salted caramel is one of the “Top Established Flavors” for coffee. (Mintel) And who doesn’t love the combo of coffee and chocolate? Sweet yet bitter, creamy yet acidic. Too good!
Let the flavor specialists at Giraffe Foods take you from creative collaboration to customized creation and beyond!
