A proposal for Delta Roadhouse
Eight drinks the bar could pour using Mimi’s ice cream. Every one of them is your sale, your licence and your ticket — we just scoop.
how it works
ANY menu item containing alcohol is a Delta Roadhouse sale at 100%. Vivere Colorado LLC takes no share of an alcohol sale, does not price it, does not ring it and does not invoice a customer for it.
Mimi’s supplies ice cream as a wholesale ingredient, the same as any other supplier you buy from. You build the drink, ring it on your POS and keep the whole ticket. No per-plate fee touches any of these, because none of them is our plate.
There is a second reason it has to run this way, and it is worth knowing. Mimi’s lease permits dessert treats, candies and frozen ice cream — any use beyond desserts needs your written consent as Lessor. Selling you ice cream sits comfortably inside that. Mimi’s being part of an alcoholic drink would not. Keeping the line where it is keeps both the licence and the lease clean, and neither of us has to ask anybody for anything.
the list
Ideas, not recipes — nobody has built or tested one of these. The useful column is the last one: whether it needs anything bought that is not already in the building.
✓ Nothing new to buy
The one everybody already knows how to order. Nothing new on the dessert side — chocolate syrup and whipped cream are carried for the shake menu as it stands.
Needs butterscotch sauce for the dessert side, if you want it drizzled
Reads as a Colorado bar drink rather than a novelty. The most likely to sell to somebody who would not otherwise order a milkshake.
✓ Nothing new to buy
The cheapest one to try. The soda comes off your own gun and the scoop is a scoop. If only one of these gets built, make it this one.
✓ Nothing new to buy
A classic that has come back around. Green enough to photograph, which matters more than it should.
Needs espresso — this one lives or dies on whether you have a machine
The highest-margin idea on the page and the one with a real dependency. Served in a glass cup, poured in front of the guest. It is a dessert AND an after-dinner drink, which is two menu slots for one build.
Needs salted caramel sauce
Sits naturally beside a dessert menu and does not read as a novelty shake. Priced as a cocktail rather than a milkshake.
✓ Nothing new to buy
Maraschino cherries are already carried. Simple, cheap, and it photographs.
✓ Nothing new to buy
Not a fixed recipe — a format. Whatever flavour Mimi's has running becomes the base, which means it never needs a new order and it changes on its own.
Five of the eight need nothing bought. That is the whole reason to start there. A drink built from what is already in the building can be tried for a weekend and dropped on Monday with nothing written off — and the two that do need something are a bottle of sauce and an espresso machine you may already have.
your numbers
We do not know what you pay for a pour or what you would charge, so this asks you rather than guessing. Nothing you type here is sent anywhere.
The base is five fluid ounces of ice cream — roughly two scoops, invoiced as a wholesale line. $1.50 is our opening suggestion, chosen by working backwards from what a bar can carry rather than from what it costs us: on a $14 drink with a $2 pour it puts you at 25%, which is the edge of normal. If it needs to be lower to work, say so.
The one number we would ask you to hold a line on is the menu price. Our own 16 oz shake is on the board at $9.75. A spiked version priced near that just moves a sale from the window to the bar and leaves both of us worse off for the trouble. Somewhere around $14 and up it stops competing with the shake and starts being what it actually is — a cocktail that happens to have ice cream in it. Bar economics are yours, not ours, so treat that as a request rather than a condition.
if you want to try it
Which one, and when. Pick a single drink and a single night. One is a test; four is a project.
What you would pay for the base. We will invoice it as a wholesale line. Tell us what you normally pay a supplier for a component like this and we will work from your number rather than inventing one.
Whether you have espresso. It decides whether the Affogato is on this list or not, and it is the only drink here with a dependency we cannot see from our side.
A look from whoever advises you on the licence. We have written this the most cautious way we know how — you take all of it, we touch none of it — but we are not lawyers and this is your licence, not ours.