Restaurateurs: Driving sales with better-for-you beverages

America is facing a crisis. It's not an impending war or a government shutdown - it's obesity.

Yes, obesity is a major problem in the United States. The NCHS estimates that 70.2% of Americans are overweight or obese.

Obesity impacts our health, mental stability, and quality of life.

Having a large portion of the population that's overweight or obese also costs a lot. In 2008, one study found that direct medical costs due to obesity totaled $147 billion. That's not even counting obesity absenteeism which can cost between $3.38 and $6.38 billion.

Obesity disproportionately affects low-income individuals who turn to cheap packaged food and sodas as their main food source. Only in recent years have consumers realized how poisonous sodas are and their contribution to the U.S.'s obesity epidemic.

Soda's Impact on Health

By now, most people know the terrible effects that sodas have on the human body. Here's just a brief list of how regularly drinking a soda might impact your health:

• Decline in liver and kidney function
• Increase risk for diabetes
• Artificial caramel colorings are linked to cancer and vascular issues
• Normal sodas high in calories and sugar
• Wears away your dental enamel
• Artificial sweeteners in diet sodas linked to cancer
• Increased risk of heart disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Many of these problems are also inter-related with obesity.

As people drink more sodas and maintain a relatively unhealthy diet, they increase the amount of fat in their bodies. That additional fat makes it harder to be active and ultimately leads us into a downward spiral of health.

Changes in Consumer Preferences

Luckily, more Americans are realizing how terrible sodas are for them. In a 2014 survey, nearly two-thirds of adults said they tried to avoid adding soda to their diets.

Instead of soda, consumers are opting for healthier and lower-sugar options. These healthier options include natural juices, teas, black coffee, water, and kombucha, to name a few.

Healthy Profits Depends on Healthy Patrons 

According to Nation's Restaurant News, restaurateurs look to replace carbonated soft drinks with more healthful choices.

Realizing that healthier beverages are potent sales and traffic drivers, a growing number of restaurant operators are enhancing their selection of waters, iced teas, lemonades and juices, just as they have done with their foods.

Healthier patrons can spend less on monthly prescription drugs and will have more money to spend at their discretion.  That can have a positive impact on the economy and in turn it will be good for your business. 

Starhaw Helps Restaurateurs Innovate Beverage Menu with Healthy Herbal Teas

At Starhaw herbal tea, our mission is to help people improve health via time-tested and popular herbal teas.  Below are ten of our most popular teas and combo teas to choose from.  These will sure make your customers happy and help drive you sales, traffic and boost your profits.  

1. Hawthorn Berry Tea -  Hawthorn Berry Tea is the King of Healthy Herbal Teas.  It is an amazing gift of nature to mankind and the nurse of the liver and heart.  

2. Goji Berry Tea - Goji Berry Tea is known as the No. 1 anti-aging super food.  It is very rich in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids essential for healthy life. 

3. Green Tea - Green tea is synonymous with health and is known as the drink of eternal youth for its great benefits and the large amount of antioxidants and phenophenols it contains.  

4. Black Tea - Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world next to water, and black tea is the most popular variety of tea in the West.  

5. Combo:  Haw and Goji Berries

6. Combo:  Black Tea with Haw

7. Combo:  Green Tea with Haw

8. Combo: Black Tea with Goji

9. Combo:  Green Tea with Goji

10. Super combo:  Black Tea with Haw/goji berries

11. Super combo:  Green Tea with Haw/goji berries.

12. Super combo

It does not matter whether you have a small restaurants that perhaps serve only 100 patrons per day or if you have a large restaurants that serve 400 patrons per day.  Add Starhaw's herbal tea to your beverage menu and you will see a big jump in your customers' satisfaction and your sales and profits.  Call us today to book an appointment.  We would love to stop by your restaurant to go over the details and help you set it all up.  It is easy as a snap.  You can literally get started in one day.  Just give it a shot and try it for 30 days.  You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.  Imagine you will see many smiles from your patrons and many referrals.  

Call Jack Yang at (908) 872 - 5840 to book an appointment with one of our beverage consultants.  

When you are ready to order.  Here are the steps to follow:  Step 1, Select the situation that best fit you:  1. New to Starhaw and want a starter's kit; 2. Returning to order more supplies;  Step 2. Choose the packages and supplies that best fit your needs and place the order.  You order will be sent to you with FREE shipping.