St. John's U. Annual Luau

I took a picture of the roast pig but decided that it was not the most appetizing one to show here. Instead, here are some smiling faces from yesterday's St. John's University Unity Luau in Jamaica, Queens.

Party at Bailey Arboretum

Here's Maui Wowi at Rich's 40th birthday party at the Bailey Arboretum in Lattingtown, NY. It's a sensational venue--a historic home set on beautiful grounds. Great food from the Culinary Studio, a terrific Jimmy Buffet tribute band called ParrotBeach that came up from North Carolina, and picture perfect weather.

Wellness Fair at St. John's University

We were at St. John's University in Queens this week for the third time this month--this time for their annual wellness fair. Info on nuitrition, free chiropractic exam, free massage, and best of all free smoothies!

City College of New York Welcome-Back Event

A picture perfect day in Harlem at CCNY's welcome-back event for students. This was our first time working at CCNY and it was a great couple of hours. Dancing (belly dancing and Nigerian dance clubs performed), Caribbean food and about 500 Maui Wowi smoothies!

Welcome Back Event at St. John's University

It's a tough job, but someone has to make smoothies for the St. John's students.

Maui Wowi on the Bar Mitzvah Boat

I've always said it's better to have a friend with a boat than to have a boat. Yesterday we took a cruise on the Long Island Sound and made smoothies for a bar mitzvah party of about 125 people. We set up on the deck of the 117-foot Cayah Michele in Cos Cob, CT. A few drink umbrellas flew off in the breeze (they're biodegradeable). Kids and adults had a blast.

Maui Wowi Joins Hawaiian Wedding Party

Here we are at John and Alison's backyard wedding Luau on Long Island (see the tiki bar at left).

Maui Wowi at Yeshiva Downtown and Uptown

It was a whirlwind day yesterday as Maui Wowi brought our smoothies to two locations of Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women in the morning and afternoon and in the evening battled crosstown traffic to set up for the men's Yeshiva College uptown It was well worth the trip--we served about 2,000 smoothies during the day to welcome students back to school.

MAui Wowi at FIT

What could be better than an 80-degree, low-humidity late August day on the plaza of Fashion Institute of Technology making smoothies? With this group of undergrads the big challenge was color-coordinating the drink umbrellas with their outfits! And getting them to come out of their introverted shells--NOT! Lotsa fun, great group of kids. They did a Caribbean theme welcome event, complete with steel drum band AND free flip-flops with the FIT logo. Cool!

Hawaiian Day at Manhattan College

This is the whirlwind week (actually two) of college back-t0-school events for Maui Wowi. Here we are at Manhattan College in Riverdale. Amazing how here and at Fordham you can be in the Bronx but hardly know it! That's fellow franchisee Paul Branca behind the tiki bar counter. We've been doing our Aloha thing all over New York. If you see two bearded guys in Hawaiian shirts on college campuses (who look well over 30) that's probably us.

Maui Wowi at Forest Laboratories Event

Pharma company Forest Laboratories had their yearly company "Day in the Sun" and invited Maui Wowi to make smoothies for about 1000 employees. It was a blistering hot day, which didn't stop employees from some hard core sports--volleyball, tennis, basketball--and lots to drink!

Smoothies in Central Park

Investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman had its annual summer event at the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park on a hot August night (last year's event was preceded by torrential rain and we definitely prefer the heat). About 1,500 attended and enjoyed great Maui Wowi smoothies, awesome food from Relish Caterers and fun activities including hula hoop and pie-eating contests. Nice to see those bankers get dirty!

Maui Wowi at Camp Echo

We were up in beautiful Orange County, NY in the Hudson Valley for Camp Echo's Hawaiian Day today. We made smoothies for the camp's 500 or so campers and counselors. The camp has counselors from all over the world--Ukraine, Poland, New Zealand, the UK and from around the US as well. The kids were really fun and had a ball, especially with the drink umbrellas, which made their way into sand art on the beach.

Maui Wowi at MasterCard Picnic: Priceless

Here we are at MasterCard's annual family picnic in Purchase NY. Over 2,000 Mastercard employees and family members attended and we made around 1,500 smoothies in three hours (and looked good doing it!). The company chose a Hawaiian theme and had luau food, hula dancers and Hawaiian decorations.

JPMorgan Chase 4th of July Celebration

It was a frequently soggy July 4th in New York City but the weather didn't dampen the spirits of about a thousand JPMorgan Chase employees who came to 1 Chase Plaza to celebrate with their families and see the Macy's fireworks. Maui Wowi made smoothies on the plaza and there were many other activities--a tatoo station, caricaturists (the best one, if you're in the market for something great for events is Aron Laikin), lots of music and of course burgers and hot dogs.