Forest Labs Company Picnic - Smoothies for a Thousand!

The Glen Cove Mansion was the site of Forest Laboratories' annual Forest Field Day, and it was a spectacular day. Over a thousand Forest Lab people play tug of war, volleyball, practiced their swing in a batting cage, played bocce, and of course consumed over 2,000 Maui Wowi smoothies! We had three tiki bars set up around the magnificent grounds. New to our team are Claudia and Rodney from Queens. Working on their anniversary -- and she's pregnant! That's dedication.

WWD.com Kicks Off New Site with Smoothies, Espressos

WWD.com, the online site for Women's Wear Daily, kicked off its new website today with a celebration for several hundred of its New York employees. Maui Wowi provided cappuccinos (hot and frozen/blended), espressos, and lattes on one floor; and fruit smoothies on another floor.

Smoothies & Espressos Top Off a Long Island Wedding

Last night, we teamed up with our favorite New York DJ/caterer/party-maker Extreme Cuisine Events for a beautiful backyard wedding in gorgeous Old Westbury, Long Island. No Hawaiian theme this time, just an elegant but hip decor with fantastic food and drink, complemented by our strawberry daiquiris, pina coladas, smoothies, and Kona-blend coffees and espressos.

Smoothie Promotion at Soho Clothing Shop

Want to do a great retail store promotion that provides customers something really different and draws people into the store? That's what the Ed Hardy store in Soho did for its "Green Event." The idea was to promote the store's very cool street wear and at the same time raise awareness about climate change. Representatives of Oxfam were there distributing information about the effects of global warming on the world's poor. Hundreds of customers had smoothies while they shopped--and one of our servers for the day lured people in from the heat with a refreshing Maui Wowi and a store full of wild merchandise.

Maui Wowi Smoothies Makes Camp Visiting Day Special

We spent most of the weekend at Brookwood Camps in Glen Spey, NY. It's an amazing place--over 100 acres in the Hudson Valley. We set up for family visiting day on Saturday and served over 700 smoothies, then on Sunday we served the former campers who attended the camp reunion--some who had been campers 20 or 30 years ago!

Sirota Annual Employee Party

Sirota Survey Intelligence, one of the world's leading employee attitude research and consulting firm, had its annual employee party this afternoon and I can attest they practice what they preach. There were very good attitudes at this firm! They clearly enjoy each other's company. Of course, our smoothies didn't hurt!

Maui Wowi for a Smoother Golf Outing

We've becoming an increasingly popular option for golf outings. A typical golf outing smoothie bar is set up at a midway point on the course. We generally serve 100-200 golfers over a four to six hour period. The most popular course frozen cocktails are strawberry daiquiris, pina coladas and margaritas. Here we are at the Commonwealth National Golf Club in Horsham, PA.

Maui Wowi at Kennedy Funding Invitational Event

Maui Wowi made Pina Coladas, Margaritas and Strawberry daiquiris for the huge crowd (about 1000 people) at the Kennedy Funding Invitational at the Dellwood County Club in Westchester. Over $1 million was raised from the attendees for breast cancer research.

Hawaiian Day at Long Island Firm

One of the most popular employee appreciation event themes is Hawaiian. A few simple decorations, employees wearing colorful shirts and as fast as you can say "Mahalo" everyone's in the Aloha spirit. NAC Marketing, a direct response and fulfillment company on Long Island, invited Maui Wowi to set up our tiki bar and make smoothies as part of their event.

Make a Kids' Party Rock with Maui Wowi Smoothies

Yes, we do college events for thousands of students at a time...and corporate events for hundreds...as well as weddings, sweet 16s and graduations. But sometimes our smoothie parties are as simple as a setting up by the pool for a kid's birthday party like we did yesterday.

Employee Appreciation Day at Cablevision

When Cablevision decided to have a Hawaiian-themed employee appreciation event for their telemarketers on Long Island, they didn't mean the usual trinkets and plastic leis. They had amazing dancers who really got the Aloha spirit moving! Of course, our Maui Wowi smoothies didn't hurt!

Fun Friday at Samsung's Ad Agency

Chiel Communications, the US ad agency for Samsung, had a Hawaiian Friday for its staff today. The staff was treated to Maui Wowi smoothies AND a screening of Office Space, one of the funniest office-life movies ever. Great way to start the weekend!

Wheatley School Senior Class Send-Off Party

It was sweltering hot but the 150 or so Wheatley School seniors cooled off with Maui Wowi smoothies and partied all night for their farewell before summer vacation and college. Our ears are still ringing, courtesy of a really good DJ, High Voltage Productions. Best DJs we've ever heard!

Philadelphia Children's Hospital Staff Event

The Philadelphia Children's Hospital had its annual staff thank-you events at its NJ and PA locations yesterday and Maui Wowi was on hand for their Tropical Appreciation Day. The folks at Events Plus organized the events, which included our smoothies, steel drum band, great food, arts and crafts and tropical birds.

SOAPnet Shares Smoothies with the Minds at Mindshare

OK, we were never great headline writers. (Say it five times fast, we dare you.) Today's SOAPnet star helping us out at Mindshare was Farah Fath, who plays Gigi Morasco on One Life to Live. "With big dreams and a bigger heart, Gigi's smile and quick wit belie her constant struggle to make ends meet. Still, she'd gladly give anything she had to help a friend." Except her Black Raspberry smoothie. Here's the vid and some other fun shots:

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour Stops at McCann

Kamar de los Reyes was our soap star today for the SOAPnet Smoothie Tour stop at McCann Universal. Kamar did SOAPnet proud by properly lei-ing (is that a word?) all McCann media buyers who stopped by. What else would you expect of the man who plays Antonio Vega on One Life to Live, who is described as "strong, proud, romantic but equally hot tempered." While hearts skipped a beat and body temps rose, we cooled off the gang with strawberry banana, black raspberry and my fav, cappuccino...don't ask about the calories: if you need to ask you can't afford them. Delish.

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour Rolls On

The SOAPnet Smoothie Tour made a stop at ad agency Carat today and our celeb de jour was Jean-Paul Lavoisier, who plays bad-boy Rex Balsom on One Life to Live. The gals at Carat had about four smoothies apiece...just so they could come back and have one more moment with JP. I think there's a reality show in here somewhere!

The Annual SOAPnet Smoothie Tour Begins!

I think this is the fourth or fifth year of our venture with ABC Television to promote SOAPnet to New York ad agencies. It's become a June tradition and gets bigger and better every year. We kicked off yesterday at Zenith Media and today we visited Mediaedge:CIA. Tomorrow we hit Carat and in the next two weeks we'll visit McCann, Mindshare, OMB, Initiative and Mediavest. ABC's soap stars are joining us at the events, having some fun and doing the lei-work. The last two days we've worked with All My Children's Chrishell Stause (okay, see if you can guess how she got that name...visit her website to find out!). She was a good sport with the tough lei-bor. Okay I'll stop! Although we were a bit stumped when she went to put a lei around a guy's neck and said to him, "I have to lei you before you get your smoothie." To which he replied, totally deadpan, "No, I need to get back to my desk." Bad-UM-bum.