One of the new businesses in town sells premade 16oz batidas for 30 pesos. Batidas normally sell made to order for 80 pesos, 100 pesos in some places. At 30, it's almost as cheap as making them at home. Worth walking the four blocks any day, esp since they're close to our nearest fruit stand.
The owner is an expat, buys all the ingredients by the case and preps the shakes by the dozen. You tell them what flavor you want and they pull it out of a freezer chest. Under a minute in and out of the store and it's on the main drag of our sector. She must be doing 100-300 sales a day, so even at five or ten pesos profit after costs, she's got a nice little turnkey going.
I suspect she mixes the fruit with the canned milk and sugar to make a base, which saves a lot of hassle. Most places have the fruit in chunks and make the batidas one by one, which ends taking about five minutes after including washing the blender each time. She's got families stopping by on motos buying four different batidas and they're in and out as fast as they can get their money out.
The shop is a few blocks north of the bridge into Villa Cerro on the left. TODO a 30.
Best of luck!
The owner is an expat, buys all the ingredients by the case and preps the shakes by the dozen. You tell them what flavor you want and they pull it out of a freezer chest. Under a minute in and out of the store and it's on the main drag of our sector. She must be doing 100-300 sales a day, so even at five or ten pesos profit after costs, she's got a nice little turnkey going.
I suspect she mixes the fruit with the canned milk and sugar to make a base, which saves a lot of hassle. Most places have the fruit in chunks and make the batidas one by one, which ends taking about five minutes after including washing the blender each time. She's got families stopping by on motos buying four different batidas and they're in and out as fast as they can get their money out.
The shop is a few blocks north of the bridge into Villa Cerro on the left. TODO a 30.
Best of luck!