South Florida Beverage Company Fresh Blends Wins Best Kiosk Innovation at the 2025 ARKI Awards

Delray Beach, FL — Fresh Blends®, the global leader in iced and frozen beverage automation, is proud to announce that we have been named Best Kiosk Innovation at the Automated Retail & Kiosk Innovation Show's 2025 ARKI Awards. This award recognizes the most creative and effective advancements in kiosk design, functionality, user experience, and technology integration.

The ARKI Awards spotlight the companies and technologies shaping the future of automated retail. Winners are selected based on their ability to solve real-world operational challenges, enhance user interaction, and create new opportunities across industries.

We were honored for our Fresh Blender+® platform, which redefines operational efficiency and the consumer experience in self-service retail. The Fresh Blender+® combines advanced clean-in-place sanitation for up to three months, Ecoblend+® in-cup blending technology, integrated ice making, and a 21" HD touchscreen interface to deliver high-quality, chef-crafted beverages with no preparation and virtually no waste.

Our innovation includes fully automated sanitation cycles that reduce cleaning labor by up to 208 hours annually, remote diagnostics and monitoring that minimize downtime, precision volumetric dispensing that ensures consistent ROI, and cloud-connected software that enables real-time analytics, menu updates, and operational alerts. The platform supports crew-serve, self-serve, and self-pay models, making it adaptable across convenience and specialty retail, foodservice, fitness centers, education, healthcare, and travel environments.

To learn more about Fresh Blends®, our award-winning Fresh Blender+®, our full menu of delicious iced and frozen beverages, including USDA-certified, aseptic organic options, and our new performance nutrition program, which delivers protein shakes, protein coffees, energy fruit smoothies, and more in 60 seconds or less, visit our website.

Photo: Pictured from left to right: Kenneth Lundberg, Chief Technology Officer, and Chef Joseph Knauss, Director of Innovation at Fresh Blends®