Healthy dual restaurant serving smoothies and froyo to open in Prosper

Healthy dual restaurant serving smoothies and froyo to open in Prosper

moothies and frozen yogurt are coming to Prosper with two restaurants in one:ย Smoothie Factory + Kitchenย and co-brandedย Red Mangoย is now open at 1470 W. Frontier Pkwy. #102, with a grand opening celebration on May 17.

On the Smoothie Kitchen side, they’ll serve smoothies, juices, fruit power bowls, toasts, and grilled sandwich folds.

On the Red Mango side, they’ll serve frozen yogurt with a self-serve model featuring four flavors, two additional swirl combinations, and 13 toppings.

 

Smoothie Factory was founded in the 1980s; Red Mango was founded in Dallas in 2007 had has 60 locations in the U.S. and internationally. The concepts are siblings โ€” both part of the franchise portfolio of Dallas-based franchising company Brix Holdings, LLC.

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Smoothie Factory + Kitchen and Red Mango Announce Grand Opening Event in Prosper, Texas

Smoothie Factory + Kitchen and Red Mango Announce Grand Opening Event in Prosper, Texas

Local smoothie and frozen yogurt brands announce new store opening event featuring giveaways, raffles and fun promotions

Smoothie Factory + Kitchen, a smoothie and kitchen QSR, is celebrating the grand opening of its newest co-branded Red Mango in Prosper, Texas. The opening event is on May 17 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at 1470 W. Frontier Parkway, Suite 102. In celebration of the opening, guests can expect day-of promotions, giveaways and activities for all to enjoy.

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Sip Your Way to Serenity: Clean Juice Unveils โ€˜the Relaxation Oneโ€™ Smoothie With Calming Lavender

Sip Your Way to Serenity: Clean Juice Unveils โ€˜the Relaxation Oneโ€™ Smoothie With Calming Lavender

March 21, 2025 //ย Franchising.comย // DALLAS โ€” Clean Juice is helping customers enhance their wellness routines with the launch of โ€œThe Relaxation One.โ€ The new lavender-infused smoothie is designed to promote relaxation and better sleep in line with the popular “sleepmaxxing” trend.

Available for a limited time, The Relaxation One is crafted with USDA-certified organic ingredients that create a delicious and soothing blend of almond milk, blueberries, banana, avocado, honey, collagen and lavender.

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Sip Your Way to Serenity: Clean Juice Unveils โ€˜the Relaxation Oneโ€™ Smoothie With Calming Lavender

Clean Juice launches ‘sleepmaxxing’ smoothie

Sip Your Way to Serenity: Clean Juice Unveils โ€˜the Relaxation Oneโ€™ Smoothie With Calming Lavender
The Relaxation One is a lavender-infused smoothie, which also has almond milk, blueberries, banana, avocado, honey and collagen. Photo: Clean Juice

March 20, 2025

Clean Juice, a USDA-certified organic juice bar owned by BRIX Holdings, is helping customers enhance their wellness routines with the launch of The Relaxation One. The lavender-infused smoothie, which also has almond milk, blueberries, banana, avocado, honey and collagen, is designed to promote relaxation and better sleep in line with the trend of “sleepmaxxing,” a collection of activities, products or hacks used simultaneously to optimize sleep quality and quantity.

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Menu Tracker: New items from Jack in the Box, Red Lobster, and P.F. Changโ€™s

Menu Tracker: New items from Jack in the Box, Red Lobster, and P.F. Changโ€™s

Plus innovation at BJโ€™s Restaurant & Brewhouse, Chip City Cookies, Clean Juice, HTeaO, Krispy Krunchy Chicken, Kura Sushi, Moxies, Next Level Burger, Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom, Playa Bowls, Portilloโ€™s, Salad & Go, South Block, Tacodeli, Thirsty Lion, Tim Hortons, Torchyโ€™s Tacos, Tous Les Jours, Velvet Taco, and Ziggiโ€™s Coffee.

Valentineโ€™s Day, one of the busiest days of the year for restaurants, is upon us and many chains have special items, some just for a day or two, such as BJโ€™s, which has a special version of its signature Pizookie and of its rotating lineup of cocktails in a bathtub with a rubber duck.ย  (more…)

Clean Juice Expanding USDA-Certified Organic Juice Options Across Central Texas

Clean Juice Expanding USDA-Certified Organic Juice Options Across Central Texas

Clean Juice, the original USDA-certified organic juice bar, revealed today its plans for strategic expansion and entry into new markets in Central Texas. This move includes cities such as Austin, Waco, Bryan/College Station, Temple/Killeen and as far south as San Antonio. The expansion presents entrepreneurs with the opportunity to provide health, wellness and nutrition to their communities with a proven business model. The brand has plans to open 10 stores across the region over the course of the next 3 years.

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Orange Leaf Opens New Co-Branded Humble Donuts in Pharr, Texas

Orange Leaf Opens New Co-Branded Humble Donuts in Pharr, Texas

Orange Leaf, a quick-service frozen yogurt brand, is celebrating the grand opening of its newest co-branded Humble Donuts location in Pharr, Texas.ย ย The event will take place at 1511 E Nolana Loop, Suite 110 on Saturday, November 16 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. In celebration of the new opening, the event will feature activities for the whole family to enjoy.

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Building Legacies in Women-Led Franchising

Building Legacies in Women-Led Franchising

Today we’re highlighting Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt franchisees, Allison Phillips and Mandy Mack ๐Ÿงก ๐Ÿฆ

Today, women own or co-own 31% of franchises, but that number is growing. In the newest edition of QSR, we explored two diverse paths to ownership within the same brand.

Mack started in linguistics, and Phillips went to school for marketing, but their passion for people drew them to become successful business owners. hashtagWiRLPower

Read more about their journey and advice for others HERE

Multi-brand franchisor Brix Holdings signed a multi-unit agreement to open locations featuring two of its concepts in Arizona.

Multi-brand franchisor Brix Holdings signed a multi-unit agreement to open locations featuring two of its concepts in Arizona.

Multi-brand franchisorย Brix Holdingsย signed a multi-unit agreement to open locations featuring two of its concepts in Arizona. Franchisee Richard Stassi, also a Jimmy Johnโ€™s operator, plans to open three Smoothie Factory + Kitchen and Red Mango co-branded stores in the Phoenix and Scottsdale markets over the next three years. Brix is also working on franchise restarts for three of its other brands, Clean Juice, Friendlyโ€™s and Orange Leaf.

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Subway, Tropical Smoothie Sales Highlight 6 Months of Noteworthy Franchise Deals

Subway, Tropical Smoothie Sales Highlight 6 Months of Noteworthy Franchise Deals

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Despite a slower dealmaking market this year so far, several major acquisitions closed in the first half of 2024. Private equity firm Roark Capital bought Subway after a reported FTC investigation, Orangetheory Fitness and Self Esteem Brands merged, and Blackstone bought 1,400-unit Tropical Smoothie. Franchise Times rounded up seven of this yearโ€™s biggest deals so far. (more…)

Fro-yo chain Orange Leaf expands with new Cibolo location, giveaways

Fro-yo chain Orange Leaf expands with new Cibolo location, giveaways

The grand opening event will feature free treats and promotions.

Byย , Hill Country Reporter

Cibolo’s Orange Leaf frozen yogurt shop to host grand opening on Saturday, August 10.

Orange Leaf Cibolo

From rivers toย chilly treats, Texans are always searching for ways to cool down as the state has become synonymous with its heat.ย Cibolo area residents can call off the hunt as a new frozen yogurt shop is set to open its doors this week.
Orange Leaf will hold a grand opening event for its newest location inย Cibolo from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, August 10. The shop is located at 646ย W. FM 78, Suite 145, Cibolo, Texas 78108.

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11 Struggling Chain Restaurants That Completely Made A Comeback  Read More: https://www.mashed.com/1634393/struggling-chain-restaurants-made-comebacks/

11 Struggling Chain Restaurants That Completely Made A Comeback Read More: https://www.mashed.com/1634393/struggling-chain-restaurants-made-comebacks/

Byย Dylan Myers Aug. 5, 2024 10:30 am EST

Read More: https://www.mashed.com/1634393/struggling-chain-restaurants-made-comebacks/

Beginning in the early 2000s, we wondered if we were experiencing the slow and painful death of the chain restaurant. Restaurant goers were looking elsewhere for healthier options, and younger generations increasingly craved unique and trendy over reliable, cheap, or convenient. Even thousands of locations and global expansion couldn’t guarantee success for struggling chain restaurants. Confronted with the ever-expanding market of curbside pick-up and food delivery apps, if a family-friendly chain didn’t keep up with the times, it was all too easy to fall into bankruptcy, or worse, fade into irrelevance.

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Orange Leaf Opens New Store in Omaha, Nebraska

Orange Leaf Opens New Store in Omaha, Nebraska

New location kicks off 2024 openings for the froyo brandย 

OMAHA, Neb.,ย June 26, 2024ย /PRNewswire/ —ย Orange Leaf, a frozen yogurt pioneer and iconic family-friendly brand specializing in frozen yogurt, smoothies and power bowls, announces the grand opening of its newestย Omaha, Neb.ย store located inside the Holiday Inn atย 1420 Cuming St.

The Orange Leaf inย Omahaย is owned by business partnersย Kirt Trivediย and Dr. Deepak Gangahr. Together they own Anant with Trivedi serving as the president and Dr. Gangahar as the chairman. The company specializes in real estate development, operations management, and construction. They manage more than 14 properties within the hotel, apartment and restaurant industry. Trivedi has decades of development and operations management experience and an eye for attractive opportunities to expand his business offerings. The Orange Leaf investment was a strategic development to offer a familiar, delicious, and family-friendly treat for guests at his hotel properties under a simple, flexible and innovative labor model for his employees.

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Orange Leaf to be franchised by Azle veteran

Orange Leaf to be franchised by Azle veteran

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AZLE โ€” Mike Higby, a United States Air Force veteran, will soon open an Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt shop in Azle. Higby is from a third-generation military family who has lived almost everywhere in the country. A considerable amount of his time was spent growing up in Alaska, where much of his family still lives. He first joined the U.S. Air Force in 1996 and served until 2019. In that time, Higby lived in California, Spain and Germany before eventually settling in Azle. He worked as an aircraft mechanic, maintaining large aircraft platforms.

Now back in civilian life, Higby hopes to use his military experience to succeed as an entrepreneur. He had never heard of Orange Leaf until he discovered a location in nearby Lake Worth. He and his wife quickly made the place a regular weekend habit.

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Embattled Charlotte chain Clean Juice to be sold to BRIX Holdings

Embattled Charlotte chain Clean Juice to be sold to BRIX Holdings

CHARLOTTE โ€” Charlotte-based Clean Juice is being acquired by BRIX Holdings LLC.

The Dallas-based multi-brand franchising portfolio has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the organic juice chainโ€™s assets, with the deal set to close within the next several weeks. Terms were not disclosed.

Clean Juice has more than 75 existing locations and a dozen in development. Its stores sell organic juices as well as acai bowls, toasts, wraps, sandwiches and protein smoothies.

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Struggling beverage chain gets a new key investor

Struggling beverage chain gets a new key investor

The popular eatery caters to a growing population of consumers.

One of the fastest growing trends in the food and beverage industry is the health-conscious movement, which may be easy to miss if you don’t know what you’re looking at.

Browse the shelves at your local grocery store and you may notice more organic and less-processed foods than you might have seen several years ago. Nearly every large grocery chain stocks some sort of in-house or generic organic brand.

Stores like Stop & Shop and Giant stock Nature’s Promise organic goods, which includes everything from canned goods to produce.ย Publix carries Greenwise, which includes produce, yogurt and breakfast cereal. Krogerย ย (KR)ย ย stocks Simple Truth, also featuring organic produce, pasta and packaged goods like spaghetti sauce.

But it’s easy to miss these products unless you take the time to look at labels, most of which tend to be green but subtle. Many customers in big-box grocery stores are seeking the best prices and tend to be less concerned about organic goods, which largely are pricier.

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A Growing Restaurant Empire Just Added Another Brand To Its Roster

A Growing Restaurant Empire Just Added Another Brand To Its Roster

ByBrianna Ruback of Eat This, Not That!

Published on April 29, 2024 | 3:08 PM

The acquisition is expected to close in the next several weeks.Clean Juice, the North Carolina-based organic juice bar franchise, is landing under new ownership. Last week, Brix Holdings, a multi-brand restaurant portfolio company,ย announcedย that it will acquire the chain.

This acquisition will add more than 75 existing Clean Juice locations, plus a dozen more in development, to Brix’s portfolio. It will also bring the company’s store count to 300 locations across eight brands. These include Friendly’s, Orange Leaf, Red Mango, Smoothie Factory + Kitchen, Humble Donut Co., and Pizza Jukebox.

 

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Friendlyโ€™s offers late-night value menu Sunday-Thursday: Family-dining restaurant crafts classic items into special budget-friendly offers

Friendlyโ€™s offers late-night value menu Sunday-Thursday: Family-dining restaurant crafts classic items into special budget-friendly offers

Friendlyโ€™s Restaurants Co. LLC, the family-dining chain, is highlighting a menu of late-night budget items Sunday through Thursday, the company said.

The Addison, Texas-based brand, which is owned by Brix Holding Inc., said it recognized customersโ€™ โ€œnighttime munchiesโ€ so would be offering special prices on some its popular snack items.

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Clean Juice to be acquired by Dallas-based BRIX Holdings

Clean Juice to be acquired by Dallas-based BRIX Holdings

Byย Jennifer Thomasย โ€“ Senior Staff Writer, Charlotte Business Journal
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Charlotte-based Clean Juice is being acquired by BRIX Holdings LLC.

The Dallas-based multi-brand franchising portfolio has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the organic juice chain’s assets, with the deal set to close within the next several weeks. Terms were not disclosed.

Clean Juice has more than 75 existing locations and a dozen in development. Its stores sell organic juices as well as acai bowls, toasts, wraps, sandwiches and protein smoothies.

The BRIX portfolio includesย brands such as Friendly’s,ย Red Mangoย and Orange Leaf. Clean Juice will give it more than 300 locations across eight brands.

 

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Red Mango Partners with Bolla Market

DALLAS — (March 25, 2019) โ€“ Red Mangoยฎ Yogurt Cafรฉ, Smoothie & Juice Bar is reaching customers in new locales with its recent development agreement with Bolla Markets, an upscale convenience store chain in the greater Long Island/New York Metro area. Red Mango has added frozen yogurt and smoothies to nine Bolla Markets since mid-2018, with more set to open this year.

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Red Mango Named Best of Long Island

Red Mango Named Best of Long Island

Dallas, TX — (February 18, 2019) โ€“ Red Mango Yogurt Cafรฉ, Smoothie & Juice Bar is ringing in the new year with a major accolade, claiming the 2019 title for the Best Frozen Yogurt in Long Island by Bethpage Best of LI.

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Red Mango Ramps Up Non-Traditional Openings

DALLAS — (February 11, 2019) โ€“ Red Mangoยฎ Yogurt Cafรฉ, Smoothie & Juice Bar is reaching customers in new locales by rapidly increasing its special venue store count, with over 75 special venue, or โ€œnon-traditionalโ€ locations in airports, train stations, convenience stores, and college campuses.
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Brix Holdings To Install NorthStar Point of Sale Across All Five Brands

(RestaurantNews.com)  MURTEC Las Vegas โ€“ Booth#62 โ€“ BRIX Holdings, LLC, a multi brand franchisor whose portfolio includes Red Mangoยฎ Yogurt Cafรฉ Smoothie & Juice Bar, Smoothie Factoryยฎ Juice Bar, RedBrick Pizzaยฎ Kitchen Cafe, Greenzยฎ and Souper Saladยฎ chains, has partnered with NorthStar Order Entry to update the point of sale systems across all five of its brands.

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BRIX Holdings, LLC Names Craig Erlich CEO

January 30, 2018 //ย Franchising.comย // DALLAS – BRIX Holdings, LLC, a Dallas-based company, specializing in chains with superior products and attractive growth prospects has named long time operations executive Craig Erlich as CEO effective immediately. The current BRIX Holdings franchise portfolio includes the Red Mangoยฎ Yogurt Cafรฉ Smoothie & Juice Bar, Smoothie Factoryยฎ Juice Bar, RedBrick Pizzaยฎ Kitchen Cafe, Souper Saladยฎ and Greenzยฎ chains.

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