Javier Maro is the owner of Smoothie Spot, a seven-location healthy food chain across South Florida. The menu runs from omelets, toasts, and wraps to bowls, salads, smoothies, and tropical juices — and Javier has a favorite: the papaya smoothie, a green smoothie rich in antioxidants and vitamins. For a growing chain where delivery makes up 25–30% of the business, getting delivery right is everything.
— Javier Maro
Owner, Smoothie Spot
Before Sauce, Javier was juggling two problems at once. The financial one: “We wanted to make money — and make money out of every delivery,” he says. And the operational one: his teams were toggling between multiple third-party applications, making it hard to maintain a smooth process across seven locations. With delivery accounting for 25–30% of the business, neither problem could be left alone.
Sauce centralized everything. “With Sauce we have just one application, one customer service, a streamlined system that works. It integrated our POS with our deliveries,” Javier says. Instead of staff managing multiple tablets and apps across seven stores, the delivery stack became a single reliable system.
On the customer side, ordering got lighter too. “Before, customers had to download an app and register. Now it’s just two clicks and they place the order,” Javier says. Fewer hoops for guests, fewer systems for the team.
The financial story came together fast. “With Sauce, we’re already saving $4,000 a month — and we expect to keep growing,” Javier says. More surprising, Sauce helped Smoothie Spot pull off something the team had considered out of reach: “With Sauce, we did something that we thought was impossible. We were able to offer free delivery without sacrificing margins.”
Free delivery for guests, healthier margins for the business, one smoother operation behind it all. “Right now, we’re extremely happy. We are making more money. Our deliveries are way better. The experience is better,” says Javier.
For Javier, the punchline writes itself. “The beauty of it is that we have two types of sauces. We have our secret sauce in the kitchen — and our secret sauce in deliveries.” His advice to other operators: “Every restaurant that has delivery needs Sauce if they want to increase margins and have a smoother operation.”
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