Monday, June 30, 2008


Which Floss Bubble is the Best for Your Business?





CottonCandyExpress.com sells 4 different floss bubble styles. Having a bubble over your machine is not only an integral piece of safety equipment (protecting your customers from flying sugar granules and floss), it's also critical to keeping your area of operations clean and tidy. It also keeps your product from flying away and being wasted!

Please visit CottonCandyExpress.com and review the various floss bubbles featured there. We are confident that you will find one that will work out perfectly for your machine and business!

Thursday, June 26, 2008


Do You Need a Business Plan for Your Shaved Ice Company?



A business plan is a great, fundamental document to assist you with growing and organizing your business and goals. If you are seeking funding from a bank or other financial institutions, then chances are they will ask to see your business plan. One of the quickest, easiest, and financially prudent ways to create a business plan for your company is to use a sample business plan template. One template that I found that looks pretty good can be found at Bplans.com.



So, if you are in need of a business plan, I would encourage you to check out Bplans.com.


A MUST HAVE Tool for Your Stand




If you mix your own flavored syrups and reuse bottles over and over again, our single head bottle washer is a must have item! It makes cleaning your bottles a breeze!

The bottle washer directs a powerful stream of water from your faucet into any of our bottles. This makes for quick clean up so that your bottles are clean and ready to be refilled again.

This all brass washer comes with an adapter to fit most ordinary faucets. It also has a lifetime guarantee! This is a highly recommended item from the staff at 1-800-Shaved-Ice.com!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008


Speed Racks for Your Syrups




Speed Racks are also an essential tool for keeping your shaved ice stand neat and organized. 1-800-Shaved-Ice.com features racks that hold 9 to 26 quarts bottles of shaved ice syrup. These stainless steel racks can be mounted to any wall, counter, or table top.


Syrup Flavor Labels




Do you like for everything to be neat, organized, and well labeled? If so, you're in luck! We have mylar flavor labels available for all of our syrup flavors. These high density synthetic flavor labels are great to use for labeling and identifying all your concentrates and ready-to-use syrups. Our Mylar flavor labels are moisture resistant. Each label is 3” by 1” and has a white background with red font. These labels give your bottles a very professional look and look much better than permanent marker! :)

Order yours today at 1-800-Shaved-Ice.com!

Friday, June 20, 2008

Are You a Member of the National Association of Concessionaires?




If you operate a fixed based concessions business, you may be interested in joining the National Association of Concessionaires. Along with the benefits that are usually associated with joining any organization, the NAC also offers some great training programs and resources for their members. I encourage you to visit their website and check it out!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008


The Best Place to Buy Cotton Candy Floss Sugar




CottonCandyExpress.com is the best place to order Cotton Candy Floss Sugar on the Internet! Our excellent customer services and prices can't be beat.

Floss sugar is made from a special sugar that is not too fine and not too coarse. It's "just right."

Floss sugar is packed in sealed 3.25 lb. containers. Open the container, and pour into the spinner head. No messy mixing or unsanitary sugar buckets.

Each case of Floss sugar contains six 3.25 lb. cartons. One case has enough Floss Sugar for approximately 360 ounces/servings of cotton candy. Floss sugar flavors include:

Blue Raspberry
Pink Bubble Gum
Red Cherry
Purple Grape
Lime Green
Orange
Pink Vanilla
Strawberry
Watermelon


Order a couple different flavors today. Floss Sugar is a great tasting, easy to use floss sugar that will definitely please your customers!


Mark your Calendar!


(Photo Courtesy of Andrew Dunn)

Did you know that December 7th is National Cotton Candy Day in the United States? Well...now you do! Use that day as a special promotional day at your business. Do a 2 for 1 special or give samples away for free as your way of participating in National Cotton Candy Day! Make sure you mark you calendar now and plan ahead!

Monday, June 16, 2008


Boost your Profits...Make your Own Syrups!




If you are a shaved ice or snow cone concessionaire and you have the ability to make, store and use larger quantities of flavor syrups, you should seriously consider making your own syrups using the concentrates sold at 1-800-Shaved-Ice.com.

Here's why:

Cost Analysis for a Gallon of Flavored Syrup:

Sugar: $2.89/5 lb. bag

Concentrate: $1.25 - based on ordering a $39.95 gallon (makes 32 gallons of syrup)

Preservative: $0.16 - based on purchasing one gallon of Sodium Benzoate

Total: $4.30/gallon ($1.08/quart) ($0.034/per ounce)


So, for those operations who are in a position to make their own syrups and store them, this represents a significant savings over purchasing ready to use flavors. Savings equals more profits. If you are interested in learning more about making your own syrups, please feel free to email 1-800-Shaved-Ice.com at customercare@1-800-Shaved-Ice.com.

Monday, June 9, 2008


A Great Looking Cotton Candy Cart




The 48" cotton candy cart from CottonCandyExpress.com features generous work space for making delicious cotton candy! The eye-catching graphics make it a great merchandiser, and an excellent way to increase your business in no time at all. The stainless steel top assists in keeping a clean, professional appearance (most health departments like stainless steel too). This is a great cart for just about anyone. Whether you are a mobile vendor or a business which features cotton candy as an additional item, this cart will attract buyers!

It can be designed to accommodate one or two machines - but please specify when ordering. Machine sold separately.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008


Do You Operate your Concession Stand at Private Parties?




If you answered yes to that question, you should consider listing your business at PartyPlannerUSA.com. It is free to list your company on their site. Best of all, it gives you additional exposure on the Internet for your business. More and more people use the Internet to search out services and finding vendors for parties is just another one of those things people use the Internet to find.

While searching for shaved ice vendors, a couple of different companies listings came up from PartyPlannerUSA, so I'd say it's a good idea to place a listing in their system.