Tropical Smoothie Cafe Catering Guide: Smoothie Packs, Wraps & Prices

Tropical Smoothie Cafe is the only nationally-scaled catering operator built around the made-to-order smoothie as a co-equal catering pillar with the food side. Every catering brief through the chain can run a Smoothie Pack (ten fresh-fruit smoothies blended in-store at the order, not from a concentrate carton) alongside the Assorted Wrap and Sandwich Tray, the Assorted Flatbread Tray, or per-person Boxed Lunches. Tropical Smoothie Cafe catering covers three primary formats: the Smoothie Pack (the brand pillar, ten made-to-order smoothies in a 12 oz or a 24 oz cup), the Boxed Lunch (a wrap, sandwich or flatbread with a side and a cookie in a per-guest box), and the Food Tray (ten wraps, sandwiches or flatbreads cut in half for ten people), plus a breakfast catering line with the All American Wrap, Southwest Wrap, Cali Breakfast Flatbread, Spinach & Pesto Wrap, PB Banana Crunch Flatbread, and the Sausage Egg & Cheese ‘Dilla, the Tropic Bowls catering format (acai, dragon fruit, Bahama Mama, Chia Oatmeal Pudding, Mixed Berry Greek Yogurt, PB Protein Crunch), and the smoothie lineup (Balanced Fusions, Fruit Blends, Tropical Treats and Super Veggies) that no peer national catering chain matches. This guide walks every catering format, what each one costs, how to pair an Assorted Wrap and Sandwich Tray with a Smoothie Pack for a complete office lunch, what to do for the vegan, vegetarian and gluten-sensitive guest, and which order to place for a meeting of fifteen, fifty or one hundred guests.

Founded in 1997 in Destin, Florida, by Bill Meck as a single beach-town smoothie counter and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Tropical Smoothie Cafe has scaled to more than fourteen hundred US locations across forty-four states under the brand promise of “fresh, made-to-order smoothies and food, with a Tropic Time mindset.” The catering footprint is built on top of that retail footprint: every participating store doubles as a catering kitchen, with the smoothie blender running for the Smoothie Pack alongside the flatbread press and grill for the wraps, flatbreads and ‘Dillas. Density is heaviest across the Southeast (Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas), the Sun Belt (Texas, Tennessee, Alabama), the Mid-Atlantic (Virginia, Maryland, the DC metro), and growing materially across the Midwest and Northeast. The brand’s catering business runs through the catering portal at tropicalsmoothiecafe.com/catering, which routes to the participating Tropical Smoothie Cafe nearest your delivery address, plus ezCater and DoorDash for Business at most stores.

Tropical Smoothie Cafe menu items, smoothie roster, pricing, lead times and availability vary by location and change over time. Confirm current catering offerings and live quotes directly through the catering portal at tropicalsmoothiecafe.com/catering or the participating Tropical Smoothie Cafe nearest your office before ordering.

Tropical Smoothie Cafe Catering Prices (2026)

Catering prices move by market, and Tropical Smoothie Cafe franchisees set their own. Every figure below comes from the Tropical Smoothie Cafe catering menu on ezCater for the store at 1236 S Canal St in Chicago, checked in September 2026. Two more stores, 930 Spring St NW in Atlanta and 4560 W Mockingbird Ln in Dallas, were priced the same day for the market-spread table at the end. Ordering direct for pickup usually lands under delivery pricing, and a delivery fee sits on top of every total here.

The short version, and the one number worth carrying away: individual packaging costs exactly 80 cents a head. A Boxed Lunch is $13.29 and the tray that holds the same wrap is $10.11 a head, which looks like a wide gap until you add the bag of chips and the cookie that the box includes and the tray does not. Do that and the tray route costs $12.49 a head against $13.29. The same 80 cents separates the flatbread box from the flatbread tray. The other headline is that the drinks are not the cheap part: a 10 Pack of 24 oz smoothies is $90.39, or 89 percent of what the ten-person wrap tray costs.

Smoothie Pack Prices

There is no twelve-smoothie bundle and no crate. The catering menu carries exactly two Smoothie Packs, both serving ten, and the only difference is cup size. The 12 oz pack takes five flavor choices and sends two cups of each. The 24 oz pack takes ten separate choices, so every cup can differ. Both draw from the same eight flavors and no others: Bahama Mama, Sunrise Sunset, Mango Monsoon, Island Green, Detox Island Green, Acai Berry Boost, Peanut Butter Cup and Jetty Punch.

Size is the expensive decision here, not flavor. Doubling the cup doubles the price: $40.40 more for the same ten people, or $4.04 a head. For a mid-morning break or a drink beside a lunch, the 12 oz pack does the job at $5.00 a head. Keep the 24 oz pack for the event where the smoothie is the meal. Add-ins are chargeable on single smoothies, from 50 cents for fruit or greens to $1.00 for protein powder and $1.49 for collagen, so a protein pour is not a free upgrade.

Boxed Lunch Prices

Three boxes, not one, and each opens a different set of mains. Every box includes one side of your choice and one cookie at no extra charge. No box offers a salad or a ‘Dilla, and the Hummus Veggie Wrap sits in the Vegetarian box rather than the Wrap & Sandwich box.

The side choice is the same in all three: a bag of Baked Lay’s Original, Sun Chips Harvest Cheddar or Miss Vickie’s Salt & Vinegar, or a whole banana, or a whole apple. The cookie choice is Chocolate Chip or Snickerdoodle. Both are worth $1.19 apiece bought separately at this store, which is the arithmetic behind the 80-cent packaging premium.

Tray Prices, and Why Build Your Own Always Wins

Every tray on this menu is the same shape: ten items cut in half for twenty pieces, serving ten. Four are fixed assortments and four let you choose all ten items. The Build Your Own version costs exactly the same as the assortment it matches, to the cent, so there is no reason to accept somebody else’s mix.

Note what is missing. No tray includes chips, napkins or cookies. That is the whole reason the box looks dearer than it is. Note also that the Build Your Own Assorted Tray is the only line item on the menu that reaches across wraps, flatbreads and the sandwich at once, which makes it the right default for a mixed table and the cheapest honest way to cover a vegetarian, since the Hummus Veggie Wrap is one of the ten choices.

Boxed Lunch or Tray: the 80-Cent Question

This is the decision most office buyers actually face, so here it is priced out both ways for ten people, with the tray route buying the same chips and the same cookie the box already contains.

The premium works out at $0.80 a head either way, or $8.01 across ten people. That is what you pay for a sealed, labelled meal per person rather than a shared platter. It is cheap enough that the box is easy to justify for a hybrid team or an all-hands, and expensive enough to skip when everyone is in one room anyway.

Salads, Bowls and the Rest of the Menu

The salad line is three Group Salads, each serving ten with the dressing on the side. There are no individual salads and no salad inside any box. The bowl line is the one place on this menu where the pack beats its parts: the ten bowls in the Assorted Tropic Bowls pack cost $130.30 bought one at a time, against $121.09 as a pack, a saving of $9.21.

One dietary warning the prices will not tell you. Nothing on this catering menu is vegan. Every Tropic Bowl finishes with a honey drizzle and three are built on Greek yogurt, the Hummus Veggie Wrap carries pepper jack and lite ranch, and the Kale & Apple Slaw is dressed with honey Dijon. The Vegetarian Boxed Lunch is labelled Vegetarian for a reason. Nothing is built gluten-free either.

What a Real Order Costs

Six complete orders at this Chicago store, before tax, tip and the $30.00 delivery fee.

Watch the delivery minimum before you build any of these. This Chicago store sets $100.00 in food and beverage, so a single $101.09 tray clears it by $1.09 and a five-person order does not clear it at all. The Atlanta store we priced sets $150.00 and the Dallas store sets $70.00, so the same order qualifies in one market and not in another. Pickup avoids the minimum. Both Atlanta and Dallas want changes 6 business hours ahead, Chicago wants 24, and all three charge 25 percent to cancel inside 24 hours of the event.

How Far Prices Move Between Markets

Here is the finding that surprised us, and the reason it is worth checking your own store before you assume a quote is high. Tropical Smoothie Cafe prices its shared catering formats nationally. Across three stores in three states, every boxed lunch, every tray, both bowl packs and the 24 oz smoothie pack came back identical to the cent. What moves is everything sold by the single unit.

The practical reading: if a tray or a box looks expensive in your market, shopping a different Tropical Smoothie Cafe will not help, because that price is the same everywhere. The add-ons are a different story. In Atlanta a cookie and a bag of chips cost $4.28 a head against $2.38 in Chicago, which pushes the tray-plus-extras route past the box and flips the 80-cent answer the other way. Price your own store before you commit a budget, and use CaterAi if the real question is whether one chain can cover the whole room.

The Three Catering Formats

Tropical Smoothie Cafe structures its catering program around three formats that map to the three pillars of the brand: Smoothie Packs for the smoothie pillar, Boxed Lunches for the per-guest meal, and Food Trays for the shareable group spread. Every catering order routes through the catering portal at tropicalsmoothiecafe.com/catering, which finds the participating Tropical Smoothie Cafe nearest the delivery address and runs the order through that store’s catering kitchen. ezCater and DoorDash for Business carry the menu at most stores. The brand’s “Cater Some Sunshine” tagline reflects the operational reality: every catering brief can be built around the smoothie as the main event, the food as the supporting cast, or both in equal measure.

The three formats at a glance

Why the Smoothie Pack is the catering pillar: the pack ships ten made-to-order smoothies, each in its own sealed cup, and the smoothie is the format peer national catering chains do not match at scale. A Smoothie Pack on its own works as a mid-morning break, a wellness add-on to an existing lunch order, or a standalone refreshment for a summer all-hands. Layered on top of an Assorted Wrap and Sandwich Tray plus a bowl pack, the Smoothie Pack turns a sandwich lunch into a Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe-shaped office experience. For an office that wants a single line item, the Boxed Lunch with a smoothie add-on is the cleanest one-call order.

The Smoothie-as-Catering-Pillar Difference

The single differentiator that defines Tropical Smoothie Cafe catering against every other national catering chain is the made-to-order smoothie as a co-equal pillar with the food. Every Tropical Smoothie Cafe in the catering network blends each smoothie from real fruit (whole banana, strawberries, mango, pineapple, dragon fruit, acai, blueberry, peanut butter, almond butter, kale, spinach) at the order — not from a frozen concentrate carton, not from a syrup pump, not from a pre-blended jug. The blender runs for the Smoothie Pack in real time, and the smoothies go out individually packaged rather than on a shared tray. No peer national chain (Sweetgreen, CAVA, Panera, Jersey Mike’s, Jason’s Deli, McAlister’s, Subway, Potbelly, Firehouse) operates a smoothie line at this scale, and none ship a Smoothie Pack as a co-equal catering pillar.

For an office where the brief includes a wellness component (the post-workout team lunch, the summer all-hands with hydration as a theme, the kickoff meeting where the team wants something other than coffee at ten in the morning), the Tropical Smoothie Cafe catering order is built around the Smoothie Pack and pulls the food side in as the supporting cast. For an office where the brief is a standard lunch with a refreshment, the Smoothie Pack pairs into the Boxed Lunch or a Food Tray as the catering beverage rather than the gallon iced tea or the soda assortment. The “Cater Some Sunshine” brand tagline reflects the operational reality: the smoothie is the brand-defining catering line item, and it lands on the table the way a real dessert course lands at Potbelly (the Hand-Dipped Shakes program at Potbelly is the closest peer concept across the brand-catering tier).

The Smoothie Lineup: Four Tiers

Tropical Smoothie Cafe organizes its catering smoothie roster into four tiers, each with its own use case at the catering table. The Balanced Fusions tier is the macro-conscious tier (protein, chia, peanut paradise with whey or pea protein); the Fruit Blends tier is the bright-fruit pour (Sunrise Sunset, Jetty Punch, Mango Magic, Blueberry Bliss); the Tropical Treats tier is the dessert-leaning pour (Bahama Mama, Peanut Butter Cup, Beach Bum, Mocha Madness); and the Super Veggies tier is the green and avocado-forward pour (Island Green, Detox Island Green, Avocolada). The catering pack does not run that whole roster. Both Smoothie Packs draw from the same eight flavors and no others: Bahama Mama, Sunrise Sunset, Mango Monsoon, Island Green, Detox Island Green, Acai Berry Boost, Peanut Butter Cup and Jetty Punch. Every tier is represented, but most of the cafe menu is not, so check the pack list before you promise anyone a Mocha Madness.

Building the Smoothie Pack for the table

A safe mixed-table pack runs Sunrise Sunset and Jetty Punch for the fruit drinkers, Detox Island Green for the wellness crowd, and Peanut Butter Cup or Bahama Mama for the person who would otherwise take a cookie. Acai Berry Boost is the closest thing to a breakfast pour on the pack list, because Chia Banana Boost and Peanut Paradise are a la carte only. Mango Magic, Kiwi Quencher and Blueberry Bliss are a la carte only as well, so a summer all-hands that wants every cup a different color builds the order from single smoothies rather than from a pack.

The Two Smoothie Packs: 12 oz and 24 oz

The Smoothie Pack is the brand’s flagship catering line item, and it comes in two sizes rather than one. The 10 Pack 12 oz Smoothies is ten 12 oz cups, ordered as five flavor pairs, at $49.99 for ten people. The 10 Pack 24 oz Smoothies is ten full-size cups, each chosen on its own, at $90.39. Every smoothie is blended at the participating Tropical Smoothie Cafe at the order and goes out individually packaged, so the pack arrives ready to drop on a conference-room counter.

For an office of ten guests, the Smoothie Pack is a one-line-item drink order that replaces the gallon iced tea, the soda assortment or the bottled water case. For a larger office, order multiple packs: a fifty-guest all-hands takes five, for one smoothie a head with no waste. The pack also works as a smoothie-only add-on to a tray lunch, which is where most offices of ten to fifteen land.

Wraps: Caribbean Jerk, Buffalo, Baja, Thai, Caesar & Hummus Veggie

Tropical Smoothie Cafe’s catering wrap lineup is the broadest globally-inspired wrap roster in the national catering tier. Every wrap is rolled in a flour tortilla, packed with grilled chicken or a vegetarian or vegan protein, and finished with a tier-specific sauce (jerk sauce for the Caribbean Jerk, Buffalo for the Buffalo Chicken, Baja for the Baja Chicken, Thai peanut for the Thai Chicken, Supergreen Caesar dressing for the Caesar wrap, hummus and balsamic for the Hummus Veggie). Most wraps are available in chicken, vegetarian (plant-based chicken substitute) and vegan variants.

What the catering menu does not carry: the plant-based chicken swap that Tropical Smoothie Cafe offers in the cafe is not an option on any catering item at the three stores we priced for this guide. It is not in the boxed-lunch option groups, not in the Build Your Own tray option groups and not sold as an add-in, so there is no vegan build on the catering menu at all. The one meat-free line is the Vegetarian Boxed Lunch, holding a Hummus Veggie Wrap or a PB Banana Crunch Flatbread, and the ordering portal labels it Vegetarian rather than Vegan. For an office with a vegan guest, call the store before you order, or source that box elsewhere. For deeper dietary planning across catering categories, see our guide to ordering catering for mixed dietary needs and the vegan office catering guide.

Flatbreads & ‘Dillas: The Warm Sandwich Format

Tropical Smoothie Cafe’s catering flatbread line is the warm-sandwich format that pairs into the smoothie pillar. Every flatbread is pressed on a flatbread oven in the participating store before delivery, then packed warm into the catering box. The Cali Breakfast Flatbread and the Peanut Butter Banana Crunch Flatbread sit on the breakfast catalog; the Chipotle Chicken Club, the Chicken Bacon Ranch and the Chicken Pesto sit on the lunch catalog, and all three contain chicken. The ‘Dilla format (‘Tropical Smoothie’s quesadilla) is the cheese-melt-anchored alternative to the flatbread, with the Santa Fe Chicken ‘Dilla and the 3 Cheese Chicken ‘Dilla as the two builds. Both are a la carte only: no boxed lunch and no tray on the catering menu includes a ‘Dilla.

For an office that wants the warm-sandwich pour without the wrap format, the Assorted Flatbread Tray ships four Chipotle Chicken Club, three Chicken Bacon Ranch and three Chicken Pesto flatbreads cut in half. For a build-your-own-style office lunch, the Build Your Own Assorted Tray lets you mix flatbreads, wraps and the Turkey Bacon Ranch Sandwich on one tray for the same price.

Tropic Bowls: Acai, Dragon Fruit & Bahama Mama

Tropic Bowls are Tropical Smoothie Cafe’s bowl-format catering line: hand-built bowls of frozen-fruit bases, fresh fruit toppings, granola and seeds. The Acai Bowl is the brand’s flagship Tropic Bowl (blended acai base topped with banana, strawberries, blueberries and granola); the Dragon Fruit Bowl is the visually-striking pour with the pink dragon fruit base; the Bahama Mama Bowl reads like a fruit-salad-meets-frozen-treat; and the Chia Oatmeal Pudding, Mixed Berry Greek Yogurt and PB Protein Crunch bowls round out the morning-leaning roster.

For an office that runs a wellness Wednesday or a quarterly health-program kickoff, the Assorted Tropic Bowls pack ships ten individually packaged bowls: four Acai, two Acai with NUTELLA, two Bahama Mama and two Dragon Fruit. For more on health-forward catering as a category, see our guide on Sweetgreen catering and the closely-aligned Playa Bowls spotlight (which covers the same acai-bowl-as-catering format from a different brand angle).

Salads: Supergreen Caesar, Thai Chicken & Kale Slaw

Tropical Smoothie Cafe’s catering salad line is three Group Salads, each serving ten, each with the dressing on the side. There are no individual salads on the catering menu and no salad option inside any Boxed Lunch, so a salad here is a shared bowl for the table or nothing.

• Catering Supergreen Chicken Caesar Salad, $41.09: grilled chicken, parmesan crisps, shredded parmesan and tomato on romaine and spinach, with creamy Caesar dressing on the side. Serves ten, so $4.11 a head.
• Catering Thai Chicken Salad, $41.09: grilled chicken, crispy wontons, shredded carrots and cilantro on romaine, with Thai dressing on the side. Serves ten. The wontons are not removable in the ordering portal.
• Catering Kale & Apple Slaw, $31.09: julienned green apple, shredded carrots, kale and honey Dijon dressing. Serves ten, so $3.11 a head. The honey makes it vegetarian rather than vegan.

There is no gluten-free salad build on the catering menu. The Catering Thai Chicken Salad ships with crispy wontons and no wonton-free version appears in the ordering portal, so a gluten-sensitive guest needs a call to the store rather than a menu selection. The Supergreen Caesar pairs naturally with a Smoothie Pack that runs Island Green or Detox Island Green for a deeply-green table.

Boxed Lunches and Individual Boxes

Tropical Smoothie Cafe runs three Boxed Lunches, not one. The Wrap & Sandwich Boxed Lunch takes any of five wraps or the Turkey Bacon Ranch Sandwich. The Flatbread Boxed Lunch takes any of the three lunch flatbreads. The Vegetarian Boxed Lunch takes the Hummus Veggie Wrap or the PB Banana Crunch Flatbread. Every box then adds one side of your choice (a bag of chips, a whole banana or a whole apple) and one cookie (Chocolate Chip or Snickerdoodle), both included in the price. Note what the box does not cover: no salad, no ‘Dilla, and no Hummus Veggie Wrap inside the Wrap & Sandwich box, because that wrap sits in the Vegetarian box instead.

For an office where the appetite mix runs across Caribbean-spiced, Buffalo-spiced and Thai-leaning eaters, the Boxed Lunch is the cleanest path: order one box per guest in the variety they want and let people take the box that matches. The dietary reach is narrower than the flavor reach. One Vegetarian Boxed Lunch covers the meat-free guest, nothing on the catering menu is built vegan, and no box is built gluten-free.

For more on the per-person boxed format versus shared trays, see our boxed lunch versus buffet decision guide and the cluster posts on boxed lunches for hybrid and distributed teams, boxed lunch catering for conferences and all-day training, allergy-safe individually packaged boxed lunches, the best boxed lunch catering companies roundup, and the cost benchmark on how much boxed lunches cost for office catering.

Food Trays: Assorted and Build Your Own

Every Food Tray on this menu is the same shape: ten items cut in half for twenty pieces, serving ten. Four are fixed assortments (Assorted Wrap & Sandwich, Assorted Flatbread, Assorted Breakfast, Turkey Bacon Ranch) and four let you choose every item yourself (Build Your Own Assorted, Wrap & Sandwich, Flatbread and Breakfast). A Build Your Own tray costs exactly the same as the fixed assortment it matches, so there is no reason to accept somebody else’s mix. No tray includes chips, napkins or cookies; those are separate line items.

For an office that runs a recurring weekly lunch, a Build Your Own Assorted Tray plus a Smoothie Pack is the standing-order combination: every guest takes a wrap and a smoothie, the spread reads as a complete lunch, and the buyer places one order. For a board meeting, add the Assorted Tropic Bowls pack so people can pick across the warm sandwich, the bowl and the smoothie.

Breakfast Catering: All-American, Southwest & Cali Flatbread

Tropical Smoothie Cafe’s breakfast catering catalog is six items: the All American Wrap (bacon or sausage, eggs, cheddar and mozzarella), the Southwest Wrap (a choice of grilled chicken, bacon or sausage with eggs, pepper jack, tomatoes, spinach and chipotle mayo), the Cali Breakfast Flatbread (a choice of protein with eggs, smoked cheese blend, smashed avocado and chipotle mayo), the Spinach & Pesto Wrap (eggs, spinach, mozzarella, roasted red peppers and pesto), the PB Banana Crunch Flatbread (peanut butter, banana, granola and honey) and the Sausage Egg & Cheese ‘Dilla. Only the first five go on the Assorted Breakfast Tray; the ‘Dilla is a la carte. The Spinach & Pesto Wrap is the one meat-free build, because the Southwest Wrap always takes a protein.

For a morning meeting, the breakfast lineup pairs with an Acai Berry Boost pack, the nearest thing to a breakfast pour on the eight-flavor pack list. For a more dessert-leaning kickoff, run the Peanut Butter Banana Crunch Flatbread plus a Bahama Mama smoothie. For more on morning-meeting catering, see our boxed breakfast catering for morning meetings guide and the sibling Einstein Bros. Bagels breakfast catering deep dive (the bagel-anchored counterpart to the wrap-and-flatbread breakfast pour). For a comparison of breakfast catering programs across the brand-catering tier, see the Honey Baked Ham breakfast tray and the Panera breakfast and bakery catering roundups.

Sides & Desserts: Slaws, Chips & Cookies

The catering side line is shorter than the cafe side line, and that is worth knowing before you plan around a slaw. The Kale & Apple Slaw is on the catering menu, but as a Group Salad serving ten at $31.09, not as a boxed-lunch side, and it is julienned green apple, shredded carrots, kale and honey Dijon dressing. The Jalapeño Corn and the Maple-Kissed Sweet Potatoes do not appear on the catering menu at any of the three stores we priced for this guide. The boxed-lunch side choice is five items: three named bags of chips, a whole banana or a whole apple.

The chips are named brands rather than an assortment: Baked Lay’s Original, Sun Chips Harvest Cheddar and Miss Vickie’s Salt & Vinegar, $1.19 each at the Chicago store we priced. The dessert line is two cookies, Chocolate Chip and Snickerdoodle, also $1.19, and one of them comes included in every Boxed Lunch.

Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free & Dietary Considerations

This is the part of the guide worth reading twice, because the catering menu is much narrower here than the cafe menu. The plant-based chicken swap that Tropical Smoothie Cafe offers in the cafe does not appear on any catering item at the three stores we priced, so there is no vegan wrap, no vegan salad and no vegan box to order. The vegetarian line is one item: the Vegetarian Boxed Lunch, holding either a Hummus Veggie Wrap or a PB Banana Crunch Flatbread. The ordering portal labels it Vegetarian and never Vegan, correctly, because the Hummus Veggie Wrap carries pepper jack and lite ranch. Tropic Bowls are vegetarian rather than vegan too: every one of them finishes with a honey drizzle, and three are built on Chobani Greek Yogurt.

The gluten-free program is narrower still: there is no gluten-free build on the catering menu at all. The Catering Thai Chicken Salad ships with crispy wontons and the ordering portal offers no wonton-free version, and every Tropic Bowl carries granola. The wraps, flatbreads and ‘Dillas all contain gluten. For a fully gluten-free table, order through a certified gluten-free caterer rather than building from the Tropical Smoothie Cafe catalog. For more on the gluten-free catering tier, see our gluten-free office catering guide.

Allergen-wise, Tropical Smoothie Cafe carries published allergen information per item on the brand’s website; nuts (peanut butter in the Peanut Paradise and Peanut Butter Cup smoothies, the PB Protein Crunch Bowl and the PB Banana Crunch Flatbread; almonds in the PB Protein Crunch Bowl and the Chia Banana Boost smoothie) and soy (in the Thai peanut sauce) are the most common triggers, and the menu does not run a strict allergen-isolation kitchen. For an allergy-strict office, see our allergy-safe individually packaged boxed lunches guide.

How to Order Tropical Smoothie Cafe Catering

1. Open the catering portal at tropicalsmoothiecafe.com/catering. The portal asks for a delivery address and routes the order to the participating Tropical Smoothie Cafe nearest the destination. ezCater and DoorDash for Business carry the menu at most stores.
2. Pick the format. Smoothie Pack (ten smoothies, 12 oz or 24 oz), Boxed Lunch (per guest), a Food Tray serving ten, a Group Salad serving ten, Assorted Tropic Bowls (ten bowls), the Assorted Breakfast Tray, or a combination.
3. Pick the smoothie flavors. There are eight flavors on the pack list and no more. The 12 oz pack takes five choices, each supplying two cups. The 24 oz pack takes ten separate choices, so every cup can differ.
4. Pick the food side. For a Boxed Lunch, pick the wrap, sandwich or flatbread per guest, plus that guest’s side and cookie. For a tray, take the Build Your Own version and choose all ten items yourself; it costs the same as the fixed assortment.
5. Add sides, drinks and dessert. A Catering Kale & Apple Slaw serves ten, cookies and chips price per unit, and the Smoothie Pack is the brand-defining beverage line.
6. Check the minimum, then submit twenty hours ahead. Delivery minimums are set per store and they move a long way: $100.00 at the Chicago store we priced, $150.00 in Atlanta and $70.00 in Dallas, with a $25.00 to $30.00 delivery fee on top. Check the change window at the same time, because it runs 6 business hours at some stores and 24 at others.

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Tropical Smoothie Cafe sits at the smoothie-and-wrap corner of the national health-forward catering tier. The relevant peers are the salad-anchored health-forward chains (Sweetgreen, CAVA, Just Salad), the bakery-cafe tier (Panera, Einstein Bros.), and the sandwich-anchored chains (Jersey Mike’s, Jason’s Deli, Subway, Potbelly).

For an office buyer choosing between Tropical Smoothie Cafe and the salad-anchored health-forward chains, the rule is the smoothie-versus-bowl question: pick Tropical Smoothie Cafe when the team wants the smoothie as the main beverage event and the food side as the supporting cast, and pick Sweetgreen or CAVA when the team wants the bowl-as-meal anchor without the smoothie pillar. For the bakery-cafe peer comparison, Tropical Smoothie Cafe versus Panera comes down to whether the office wants the fresh-fruit smoothie (Tropical Smoothie Cafe) or the bakery loaf, gallon iced tea and broad sandwich-and-salad bench (Panera). For per-brand catering deep dives, see our guides to Sweetgreen catering, Panera catering, Jersey Mike’s catering, Jason’s Deli catering, Subway catering, Potbelly catering, Einstein Bros. Bagels, the McAlister’s Deli guide, and the closely-related health-forward bowl spotlight on Playa Bowls. For brand-alternatives roundups across the deli tier, see the Firehouse Subs alternatives, McAlister’s Deli alternatives, and the freshest Jason’s Deli alternatives guides.

A Better Option for Office Catering

Tropical Smoothie Cafe is the right call when the office wants the smoothie-as-catering-pillar pour, the globally-inspired wrap roster, the Tropic Bowls and the beach-vibe brand story. For everything else (a coastal-urban metro outside the Southeast and Sun Belt, a multi-guest gluten-free count, a halal- or kosher-certified table, a same-day catering window, a plated-service event, a multi-cuisine catering program where the same office wants Italian on Tuesday, Mediterranean on Thursday and Korean on Friday), the office buyer needs a wider catering bench than any single national catering chain can deliver.

Zerocater’s catering platform pulls from more than one thousand local restaurants and partner caterers across twelve metros (San Francisco, New York, Austin, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia). The bench includes smoothie-and-bowl operators like Playa Bowls in Chicago, Agavi Juice in NYC, Saucy Greens Salad Shop in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Mobowl in Brisbane, CA, Ranch Hand Organic Bowls in Austin, Everbowl in the Denver metro, Perfect Pear Juice Bar in Atlanta, Fresh Squeeze Fresh Juice in Alameda, Brazilian Bowl Fresh Grill in Chicago, Indulge Bowls near NYC, and the broader smoothie, juice and bowl operators across the rest of the metros, plus full Mediterranean, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and barbecue programs. CaterAi, Zerocater’s AI menu-planning tool, builds a catering plan from your guest count, dietary mix and budget and ships the order through the same vendor-network operating model that Tropical Smoothie Cafe uses at the single-brand level.

For an office that wants a smoothie-and-wrap pour one week, a Mediterranean mezze the next, and a Korean office picnic the week after, the Zerocater bench delivers all three through one ordering platform. For more on how the Zerocater model compares to single-chain catering across recurring office programs, see our office manager’s guide to ordering catering, the corporate event catering checklist, and the corporate catering for tech companies guide. For the cuisine-page links to the closest TSC-adjacent Zerocater catalogs, see the Californian catering directory and the Caribbean catering directory.
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Which Tropical Smoothie Cafe Order for How Many People?

The most-asked question on every brand-catering page is “what should I actually order for X guests?” Here is the cheat sheet for the most-ordered Tropical Smoothie Cafe catering combinations by headcount band.

For an office in a specific metro, layer in the local context: a Southeast event (Atlanta, Charlotte, Tampa, Miami) gets the brand’s home-market density and the strongest catering kitchen support; a Sun Belt event (Dallas, Houston, Austin, Phoenix) gets the second-densest coverage; a Mid-Atlantic event (DC, Virginia, Maryland) sits at the third-density tier; and a coastal-urban event (San Francisco, New York, Boston, Seattle) may need to confirm the nearest participating store before planning around the twenty-hour catering-portal window. For city-specific catering picks beyond Tropical Smoothie Cafe, see our listicles for Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. For cost benchmarks by metro, see our cost guides for Atlanta, Austin, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, LA, and Boston. For occasion-anchored catering planning beyond a single chain, see our guides to board meeting catering, the holiday party catering planning guide, the company picnic and outdoor catering guide, the corporate event catering checklist, and the corporate catering for tech companies playbook.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Tropical Smoothie Cafe catering priced?

By format and serving count. At the Chicago store we priced in September 2026, the Smoothie Packs are $49.99 for ten 12 oz smoothies and $90.39 for ten 24 oz. Boxed Lunches are $12.29 for the flatbread box and $13.29 for the wrap, sandwich or vegetarian box, each including a side and a cookie. Food Trays serve ten at $60.69 for breakfast, $91.09 for flatbreads and $101.09 for wraps and sandwiches. Group Salads serve ten at $31.09 to $41.09 and the Assorted Tropic Bowls pack is $121.09. Chips and cookies are $1.19 each. The tray and box prices were identical at stores in Chicago, Atlanta and Dallas; the single-item prices were not.

What is the lead time for a Tropical Smoothie Cafe catering order?

Twenty hours of advance notice on the catering portal at tropicalsmoothiecafe.com/catering. Many participating Tropical Smoothie Cafes accept shorter same-day windows for smaller orders by calling the store directly; for events of fifty or more guests, the lead time runs two to three business days plus a direct store call to coordinate blender capacity and delivery vehicles.

What is the minimum order?

It is a dollar figure, set per store, and it moves further than anything else on the menu. The three stores we priced in September 2026 set $100.00 for delivery in Chicago, $150.00 in Atlanta and $70.00 in Dallas, with a $25.00 to $30.00 delivery fee on top. One Build Your Own Assorted Tray at $101.09 clears the Chicago minimum and not the Atlanta one. Pickup avoids the minimum. Confirm the figure for your own store before you build the order.

What is the Smoothie Pack?

There are two, and neither is a bundle of twelve. The 10 Pack 12 oz Smoothies is ten 12 oz cups, ordered as five flavor pairs, at $49.99 for ten people. The 10 Pack 24 oz Smoothies is ten full-size cups, each chosen separately, at $90.39. Both draw from the same eight flavors: Bahama Mama, Sunrise Sunset, Mango Monsoon, Island Green, Detox Island Green, Acai Berry Boost, Peanut Butter Cup and Jetty Punch. Every smoothie is blended in-store at the order from real fruit and goes out individually packaged, and a pack pairs naturally with an Assorted Wrap and Sandwich Tray for a complete office lunch.

Does Tropical Smoothie Cafe have vegan or gluten-free catering options?

Vegetarian yes, vegan no, gluten-free no. The catering menu at the three stores we priced carries one meat-free line, the Vegetarian Boxed Lunch, holding a Hummus Veggie Wrap or a PB Banana Crunch Flatbread, and the ordering portal labels it Vegetarian rather than Vegan. The plant-based chicken swap Tropical Smoothie Cafe offers in the cafe is not an option on any catering item. Tropic Bowls are vegetarian rather than vegan, because every one finishes with a honey drizzle and three are built on Greek yogurt. Nothing on the catering menu is built gluten-free. For a vegan or gluten-free count, layer in a second caterer.

Are the smoothies made fresh at the store?

Yes. Every Tropical Smoothie Cafe smoothie in a catering Smoothie Pack is blended in-store at the participating Tropical Smoothie Cafe at the order, from real fruit (whole banana, strawberries, mango, pineapple, dragon fruit, acai, blueberry, peanut butter, almond butter, kale, spinach) — not from a frozen concentrate carton, a syrup pump or a pre-blended jug. The blender runs in real time for the Smoothie Pack, then the smoothies go into individually packaged cups for delivery.

How does Tropical Smoothie Cafe compare to Sweetgreen, CAVA, Panera and Jersey Mike’s?

Tropical Smoothie Cafe is the only national catering chain that ships made-to-order smoothies as a co-equal catering pillar with the food. Sweetgreen and CAVA are salad-and-bowl health-forward operators with no smoothie program. Panera is the broad bakery-cafe with full sandwich, salad, soup, breakfast and bakery catering at the deepest national footprint. Jersey Mike’s is the cold-deli-sub specialist with the broadest sub footprint. The right pick depends on whether the office wants the smoothie pillar (Tropical Smoothie Cafe), the salad-as-meal anchor (Sweetgreen or CAVA), the bakery-cafe pour (Panera) or the deli-sub anchor (Jersey Mike’s).

Where can I order Tropical Smoothie Cafe catering?

Catering orders go through tropicalsmoothiecafe.com/catering, which routes the order to the participating Tropical Smoothie Cafe nearest your delivery address. ezCater and DoorDash for Business carry the menu at most stores and are useful when the office buyer wants the spend on an existing catering platform. For large events of fifty or more guests, call the participating store directly to coordinate blender capacity and delivery vehicles.

What makes Tropical Smoothie Cafe a good fit for office catering?

The made-to-order Smoothie Pack is the Tropical Smoothie Cafe differentiator no peer national catering chain matches; the globally-inspired wrap roster (Caribbean Jerk, Thai, Baja, Buffalo, Supergreen Caesar, Hummus Veggie) reads as four cuisines in one catalog; the Build Your Own trays let you choose all ten tray items at no premium; the Tropic Bowls cover the acai-and-dragon-fruit format; the breakfast catering catalog spans the All American Wrap, Cali Breakfast Flatbread, Spinach & Pesto Wrap and the Sausage Egg & Cheese ‘Dilla; and the beach-vibe “Cater Some Sunshine” branding makes the brand a feel-good seasonal-event pick. With more than fourteen hundred US locations across forty-four states, Tropical Smoothie Cafe is the smoothie-and-wrap catering pick for an office where the made-to-order smoothie is the deciding factor.

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