Proven above, from left, is Robeks franchise proprietor Package Arn with workers Tali Dudok, Elise Hager and Sophia Barr. Arn stated using college students and being related to the group is equally as necessary to him as offering wholesome and scrumptious smoothie choices. Photograph: Brian Lisik
FAIRLAWN — Package Arn entered the smoothie enterprise in 2010 after 30 years within the wine trade.
He stated that whereas his merchandise have modified, his ideas about an important a part of proudly owning a enterprise haven’t.
“I needed to be that man who, when youngsters work for me, 10 or 15 years later they are saying, ‘I labored for that man and he taught me this.’ I wish to make an affect on younger individuals,” stated Arn, proprietor of the Robeks positioned at 3757 W. Market St. “I’ve in all probability had 200 workers … [from Copley, Revere, St. Vincent-St. Mary, Archbishop Hoban, Highland, Medina, Buchtel and Wadsworth high schools]. The objective is to attach with the group. Robeks is a series, however this location is owned by a neighborhood man, [and] we use native suppliers.”
He added the shop frequently helps band, athletics and theater applications at native colleges and he has created the Copley-Fairlawn Metropolis Faculties’ Pupil of the Month recognition program.
Alongside together with his dedication to younger individuals and the group, Arn stated it didn’t take him lengthy to comprehend Robeks additionally had the type of merchandise he may stand behind when he and his spouse, Katie, started researching franchise alternatives. The couple was already conversant in a Robeks location in Akron’s Wallhaven neighborhood, and Arn stated its smoothie choices — together with traditional, superfood, acai and efficiency choices — together with an assortment of bowls, recent juiced greens, power bars, avocado toast and a full line of dietary supplements and enhancements, made the restaurant an ideal match for the Montrose space.
He famous the 2 hottest menu gadgets at present are bowls and Robeks’ three forms of avocado toast.
“I’m very happy with the product we promote,” Arn stated. “It’s a wholesome various to what’s usually referred to as quick meals. And the ambiance right here is shiny and blissful.”
Robeks was based in 1996 in Southern California as “a juice spot that had higher recipes, higher style and higher service than every other restaurant on the market, the place wholesome individuals may order all their nutritional vitamins in a single serving [and could be] a spot not-so-healthy individuals would love too,” in keeping with the corporate web site at www.robeks.com.
Arn stated his retailer, which is open Mondays by Fridays from 7 a.m. to eight p.m., Saturdays from 8 a.m. to eight p.m. and Sundays from 9 a.m. to eight p.m., retains that shiny “California ambiance and wholesome life-style” within the coronary heart of Montrose.
Arn stated that previously couple of years the enterprise, like many others, has struggled with the affect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on buyer foot-traffic. He stated he want to remind the group that the restaurant is “nonetheless right here, with high quality, wholesome merchandise and smiling, blissful native youngsters.”
“I needed a enterprise I might be happy with when somebody requested, ‘What do you do?’ We’re a neighborhood enterprise and we offer a wholesome, high-quality product,” Arn stated. “Smoothies aren’t slushies; they don’t seem to be frozen sugar with a taste. Evaluate us to the others. You’ll come again to Robeks.”
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