How to Choose the Toppings to Increase Your Beverage’s Value

1. Pick the toppings from the drink’s taste.
First suggestion is to pick the toppings from the taste of the drink. Knowing each of your drink’s flavors is a key factor in selecting the toppings. For example, green tea should have toppings that are not too sweet like konjac, pearl, agar, grass jelly, and so on, as green tea is already sweet. Menus like fresh milkshake or chocolate shakes go best with toppings that are creamy and crunchy like whipped cream, chocolate syrup, biscuits, or cereals, which will add more flavors to the menu while also adding value to the beverages in your shop as well.

2. Pick from the taste of the toppings.
Choose toppings with flavors that go well with the drink. Don’t pick toppings that have a strong flavor or smell that will overpower the drink. You might choose slightly sweet toppings such as, fruity agars or honey jelly which will perfectly go along with sour drinks like lemon tea, fruit tea. Or you can choose flavorless toppings like whipping cream and milk foam which goes well with sweet drinks like fresh milk shakes, cocoa, etc. Choosing toppings that have the same taste with the drink will preserve the flavor of the drink without losing its identity.

3. Pick from the topping’s texture.
Choosing toppings from texture will help add color and make the drink more interesting. For example, chewy toppings like konjac, agar, pearl, and jelly will suit best with sweet and sour drinks like fruit tea and lemon tea. Crunchy textured toppings like cereal, biscuits, and dried grains would go best with bittersweet drinks like mocha coffee, chocolate shakes, cocoa. Toppings with soft textures such as whipped cream, milk foam, and cheese foam will go well with sweet drinks like milk teas, Thai milk tea, fresh milkshake, and so on.

4. Pick the toppings based on nutrient value.
Some topping not only increases the taste and texture to the beverage menu but also increases the nutrient value for each drink as well, which is suitable for health concerned customers. Toppings like fresh fruits such as strawberry, blueberry, banana are popular toppings for smoothies and fruit shakes as it provides nutrition like vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Moreover, toppings like fruit agar and honey jelly in milk teas and fruit teas are also optional toppings with natural sweetness that will help increase the drink’s sweetness dimension without requiring excess sugar as well.

5. Pick new and unique toppings unlike the usual.
Nowadays, there are several new and weird toppings that are unlike the usual toppings occurring in the market such as honey jelly, konjac, gold pearls, granola, chocolate milk foams, etc, which are considered toppings for drinks that can enhance the flavors and increase the value of the drinks in your coffee shop, while also creating gimmicks and something new for your shop to become more intriguing surpassing competitors and draw new customers to try your beverages.