The #Deloitte development team at #Northwell Health celebrated the Indian holiday of Diwala with Maui Wowi smoothies and espresso bar. Our smoothies are perfect for any corporate event or employee appreciation day. A tiki bar with for an Indian holiday? Sure, why not?  You haven’t lived until you’ve tried a Maui Wowi smoothie with Mutton Kababjees or a Latte with Veggie Samosas! #eventprofs #corporateevents #employeeappreciation

We thought it would help our HR manager, event planner and caterer friends to highlight some good ideas for organizing your summer employee appreciation event. Here are some resources you may find useful for company picnics and other employee appreciation events in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and the other lower 44 states this summer.

1. Let’s get the most important and best idea out first. Maui Wowi smoothies and iced/blended coffee drinks for a summer break for your people. Take a look at this frozen blended cappuccino and try not to cry. It’s that good.

Or consider our smoothie catering options with flavors that will amaze you. How do these sound?

• Black Lava Beach: black raspberry and strawberry banana
• Sunny Paradise: strawberry banana and kiwi lemon lime
• Hawaiian Breeze: strawberry banana and mango orange
• Hawaiian Dreamsicle: pina colada and mango orange.

We could go on but we don’t want to continue teasing you. If we were really mean we’d mention our Kona Chill – a Kona-blend coffee that you’ll swear is ice cream. Or our Chai Chill, a spicy blended chai with a shot of espresso.

Say Uncle?

Okay, then give us a call or email us (see below) and we’ll be right over. Your employees will appreciate us and you and you’ll be on your way to a fantastic summer event.

Now on to some other ideas:

2.  Epic Party Ideas from SnackNation: Sumo Throwdown, Office Olympics, Throwback to your Favorite Decade…and a lot more fun stuff here.

3. A Boat Ride! If you’re in New York or some other place with waterways, what a perfect perk for your people. And yup, we can bring our tiki bar onto any boat. (Well, not row boats or canoes. Although we haven’t tried, so maybe.)

4. Talent Show: A great way for people to get to know each other and revel in embarrassment. (Give them all Maui Wowi smoothies afterward.)

5. Did we mention calling Maui Wowi to cater a smoothie or frozen coffee drink bar?

Your high school or college student is graduating, finally! If it’s high school, and they’re going away to college, congratulations on not having to clean their room anymore. If it’s college, congratulations on being one step closer to having them off the payroll. Either way, it’s time to celebrate.

Maui Wowi smoothies are the best thing to cater at a  graduation party. Why? Because kids (high school or college) love smoothies. And they love the parasols (some people call them umbrellas) that we put in the drinks to give them a festive look. Bring us to your grad party and we’ll throw in leis to make it more fun. We can also use special cups – coconut cups are really popular. Add to all that our portable tiki bar, which sets up in minutes by your pool or anywhere, and the party is ready to start.

Graduation parties with a Hawaiian theme are especially fun and easy to plan. Click over to Oriental Trading or similar sites and you’ll find an array of inexpensive decorations which we can place on our bar.

A Hawaiian theme grad party is also an excuse to pick up an Aloha shirt (any Hawaiian theme shirt). You don’t have to blow a month’s tuition payment for Tommy Bahama. Every retailer sells inexpensive Hawaiian shirts these days (even if they’re made somewhere other than Hawaii — and they always are).

BTW, we can pour alcohol for your college grad party so they can have real pina coladas (and yes, we will check their IDs, and no, we will not serve them alcohol if they’ve had enough, or if you instruct us not to).

Now, what about summer/backyard parties? We have many clients who have an annual family/employee/friends gathering…some we’ve been serving for 15+ years or more running. At one of our favorite parties, we’re placed opposite the sushi bar (where two experts make sushi and the kids consume it just as fast).  Whether your party is for 50 or 500, we can manage it easily with our expert staff who man the bar and our blenders so there’s never a line.

If you’re an HR manager, event planner or company owner looking for something special to do for your employees this summer, a Maui Wowi catered smoothie bar for an employee appreciation event is the best idea you’re going to find. Here are six reasons why (and if you need 80 more, call us):

1. Everyone loves smoothies. We offer dairy and non-dairy options like Maui Wowi Tropical Smoothie for your smoothie catering event. Plus we come to your location with our portable tiki bar and set up in minutes. If you provide it, we’ll add alcohol to make the best pina coladas, strawberry daiquiris and margaritas you’ve ever had.

2. New York (and other cities) are miserable in the summer. Like the song says, “Hot times, summer in the city, back of my neck feeling dirty and gritty.” Make your New York (or hundreds of other cities) summer a little less of a sweat with a smoothie catering event at your office, warehouse, manufacturing plant, or any place else there are people in need of cooling off.
3. Everyone loves coffee. If fruit smoothies aren’t your jam, how about frozen blended cappuccino or cold-brew iced coffee?

Add some gourmet flavor syrups (think Peppermint, Macadamia Nut, French Vanilla and more). Don’t like coffee or smoothies? Sorry, don’t know what to tell you.
4. Our smoothie catering events are healthy events. Our smoothies give your people a full dose of Vitamin C for the day. Fewer sick days. More productivity. Higher revenues. Higher earnings. Bonuses! Do the math!
5. The alternatives are crummy. Ice cream? Messy and fattening. Donuts? Sure, feed your people fat bombs.
6. Get your employees to stay later on Friday. Want people to hang around and get an extra hour of work? Have our smoothie catering on a Friday afternoon–  or any late afternoon — and your people will stay at work longer.

 If October is warm enough for baseball, it’s warm enough for Maui Wowi smoothies. Amherst College had a festive fall event last week with haystacks, carved pumpkins, snacks and music. Fact is, we serve our smoothies for events all year round. We’ve had “summer in winter” events, luaus in September, and events where it was 3 degrees outside and we served smoothies inside.

Having a special event like a corporate meeting, bar mitzah, campus anniversary? Maui Wowi can make your event a standout with our custom logo lattes. We’ll create a signature latte with your event or company llogo sprinkled on top in cocoa or cinnamon. The one pictured below was a recent event for Kutztown University’s 150 Year Celebration. Find out more about our espresso services here.

When lots of kids of in a Minecraft competition, they’re thirsty. Maui Wowi came to the rescue at the Ivy School in New York providing fun refreshment for the contestants.

There’s our mix-master-in chief Jesse (on the left above) taking a moment to pose with the fans.

Maui Wowi loves serving guests from 10 to 100 (we haven’t served anyone that’s 100 yet but we’re hopeful). Give us a call anytime for any kind of event – whether corporate, academic or social.

A Maui Wowi espresso bar is a great addition to a wedding. Below is a photo from a wedding we catered at the spectacular event space at the Bronx Zoo. We served a menu of espresso, cappuccinos, lattes, mochas and Americanos.

A couple of key reasons why a catered Maui Wowi espresso bar is a perfect complement to a wedding:

1. You won’t get coffee this good from your venue: Coffee is an afterthought for most in-house catering establishments. Their job is creating great food. Our job is ESPRESSO COFFEE CATERING. Great coffee made from Hawaiian Kona beans. The perfect roast for espresso drinks, produced quickly and deliciously by our baristas.

2. Manage your guests – not us. Maui Wowi’s espresso catering service needs nothing from you except electricity from your venue. Maui Wowi espresso catering self-managing. Show us where to set up, have a 6- or 8-foot table for us and we’re set up in 10 minutes. Venue managers love us as much as wedding guests.

3. A custom menu: We can create signature drinks with your favorite liquors. It’s amazing what a variety of drinks can be created, fast and easily, with vodka, Kahlua, Fireball Whisky and more. Here are some of our espresso cocktails.

Ready to find out more? We’ll send a quote customized for your wedding party. Just click the button below.

Maui Wowi provided a wide range of espresso drinks to hundreds of attendees at a conference in New York last week. The event was the perfect showcase for Maui Wowi’s high-end espresso service.

Maui Wowi used our custom Kona-blend espresso beans. We prepared espressos, lattes, cappuccinos, macchiatos and Americanos. The attendees came in waves after each conference session, and we were able to serve everyone with a two-machine setup and two highly experienced baristas.

Guests commented on our drinks and returned repeatedly for our unique product. One of the conference exhibitors ponsored the hot cups we used to serve our drinks — 8 oz. cups for lattes and 4-oz for espresso shots.

Many event planners and caterers know Maui Wowi more for our smoothie catering and our tiki bar setup. In fact, almost all of our espresso catering is done in a more formal setup like the one pictured above. 

For more information on how Maui Wowi can enhance your conference or corporate event, or how we can help you create a highly memorable and visible sponsorship opportunity for your next exhibit, complete the form below.

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Some folks have a dificult time remembering our website address, CoffeesAndSmoothies.com when they want to inquire about having Maui Wowi cater smoothies of espresso drinks for a corporate event, bar mitzvah, wedding or campus activity. Yep, our URL is a mouthful. Plus you have to remember to put the “S” in CoffeeSandsmoothies. (It you type CoffeeAndSmoothies.com you’ll get one of those “buy this domain” sites and hey, if you want to spend $2000 on it, be our guest!)

Still, we want to make sure you can remember our site, so we’ve registered two more domains that go directly to our site: The first is Smoothie.Guru, which we think is kind of fun. I’m not sure we’ll trade our Aloha shirt for a turban, but when you’re looking for a company that really knows its way around smoothie catering, all you need to remember is Smoothie.Guru and you’ll find us. 

And speaking of smoothie catering, you can also type Smoothie.Catering into your browser and you’ll get us that way too. Go ahead, give it a try – it’s fun to do and it’s free! Do it once, twice, or a thousand times. It’s magic! We love the Internet.

Or perhaps you don’t need to visit our site at all, since if you’re reading this you’ve already found us. In that case, what you probably want is great smoothies, espresso drinks, coffees, shave ice or hot cocoa for your corporate, social or college event. Well, in that case all you need to do is click the button below for a price quote. Could we make this any easier? No, we could not. You’re welcome!