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Start a canned drink program.

The whole path from first question to first fridge restock, in the order a working counter walks it. Four steps, every guide we have written, and the two calculators, on one page.

1

Choose the equipment

One decision does most of the work: a machine that raises the can to the seaming head itself and never spins the drink. These four guides cover the categories, the traps listings do not disclose, and the specs that matter.

2

Run the numbers

The startup cost is small and the margin math is public. Run your own drinks through the calculators, then read what the whole program costs to launch.

3

Pick your drinks

Anything still and cold cans well, and the clear can turns color into marketing. Start with the drink you already batch, then grow sizes and flavors on the same machine.

4

Run it right

House-canned drinks are fresh product: refrigerated, dated, and sold inside honest windows. The operating knowledge fits in four short reads.

Read enough? The machine is step five.

The seamer is $1,799 with free shipping, seals every can size on one seam standard, and most cafés clear the cost in their first two months of fridge sales.

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