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What is the Deal with "Swig"?

Posted on 11/3/26 at 7:20 am
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
77296 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 7:20 am
The one on Airline next to Rouses has vehicles looped around the building and all the way back to the hwy. Is this some kind of new fad drink?
This post was edited on 11/3/26 at 7:28 am
Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
11474 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 7:27 am to
Soda shops are all the rage right now in other cities.

I'm told they are good and I wouldn't mind trying it, but I cannot see myself going to buy a soda more than once or twice.
Posted by jp4lsu
Member since Sep 2016
7892 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 7:39 am to
It was super popular when it opened in Fort Worth. These little places are popular now, like Swig, Dutch Bros, Bahama Bucks?.
Swig is soda mixed with flavors to have a unique drink.
My daughter I think liked one with Dr Pepper and coconut flavor cream.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
79318 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 7:41 am to
quote:

Soda shops are all the rage right now in other cities.


Like frozen yogurt shops in 2011.

Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
77296 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:01 am to
Never heard of the place. But, I can't imagine it's worth waiting 30 minutes in a drive thru for.
Posted by BitBuster
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2017
2116 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:07 am to
quote:

What is the Deal with "Swig"?

It's for kids/teens.

Used to take mine to one every Friday after school. They'd get theirs, and I'd get my coke and coconut/cherry then come home and pour some rum in it.
Posted by TheOcean
#honeyfriedchicken
Member since Aug 2004
47150 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:09 am to
quote:

Swig is soda mixed with flavors to have a unique drink.


So it's basically this?



Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
95302 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 8:10 am to
Horrible. They opened one about a mile from me and all they sell is dr pepper with crap mixed in.

eta and the line of high school girls in cars stretches all the way around the block
This post was edited on 11/3/26 at 10:45 am
Posted by RonFNSwanson
1739 mi from the University of LSU
Member since Mar 2012
24481 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 10:04 am to
quote:

Is this some kind of new fad drink?


It's Mormon shite. Been in Utah for a long time. I think they just opened up some places in Louisiana.

It's soda with fruit purees and other shite you can mix in. Never had it, but there's one on every corner here.
Posted by tke_swamprat
Houma, LA
Member since Aug 2004
11297 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 11:52 am to
We stopped at one in Lafayette when we went tour ULL. It was good. Not something I would get all of the time.
Posted by facher08
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2011
6450 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 12:25 pm to
I didn't know what it was until my wife pulled into the drive thru a while back. She ordered then asked me if I wanted anything. After staring partially confused at the menu for 20 seconds, I just said "No".

I don't get it how it makes money. It's a brick and mortar that just sells soft drinks?
Posted by TheWalrus
Land of the Hogs
Member since Dec 2012
48921 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 2:42 pm to
Hardly anywhere has the freestyle machines anymore and a couple of places that do are so flat they are undrinkable. I miss them.
Posted by cuyahoga tiger
NE Ohio via Tangipahoa
Member since Nov 2011
6208 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 2:46 pm to
quote:

I don't get it how it makes money. It's a brick and mortar that just sells soft drinks?


My friend is partners with the group that owns the 7brews in Dallas, Atlanta, parts of Ohio and Washington state. 70 current operating and 80 more over the next year. Swig and 7B have very similar models. Modular build on outparcel space, with an average check at $8. Average stand revenue $2.5M/yr, some doing $5M. They both target students, white suburban Moms. I tell my friend "That sugary, sweet, flavored coffee for $6 can't compete with my home brewed black cup of CC dark roast for 40 cents". His reply, "great cause old white guys are not our market". You will notice they build by Targets, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's in white suburban middle/upper communities. Similar to Starbucks.

Solid margins, Very profitable.
Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
11474 posts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:47 pm to
quote:

Hardly anywhere has the freestyle machines anymore


Really? Every place that has had them still has them, to my knowledge.

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