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This versatility means Blendtec clients can easily create numerous fruit smoothies, frozen coffee drinks, and specialty bar drinks with or without alcohol. Juice concentrates can be electronically metered with water to properly reconstitute any product.

"What really sets us apart is that our machine portions everything -mixes, alcohol, and ice-making for a consistently perfect drink with each pour," says Blendtec's Dan Burt, VP of sales & marketing.

Because Blendtec Blenders possess sophisticated microprocessor technology to simultaneously measure up to eight ingredients plus ice and water, drinks are made to precise recipe specifications every time. "A drink made Monday afternoon should be the same as one made Friday evening. A drink made in San Francisco should be the same as one made in Atlanta," Burt says. This measuring precision means bartender over-pours of alcohol become a non-issue.

Since the microprocessor remembers proper recipe portions, expensive training sessions with high employee turnover are a thing of the past.

And clean-up? It's a snap completed in minutes. Blendtec's exclusive "Clean-in- Place" design means no lengthy teardown, no lost parts and no reassembly.

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