TODAY’S TRADEMARK – TROPICAL SMOOTHIE CAFE
Tropical Smoothie Cafe, sometimes referred to as Tropical Smoothie, or Tropical, is a restaurant franchise in the United States. In addition to smoothies, the cafes offer a wide range of sandwiches, wraps, salads, flat breads, and introduced bowls to their food line in 2017. Tropical Smoothie Cafe operates more than 850 locations nationwide with 2,000 projected openings across the United States by 2024.
The company began as a smoothie shop in 1993 along the panhandle of Florida. Tropical Smoothie Franchise Development Corporation was founded in 1997 in Destin, Florida, and the first franchised store opened in 1998 in Tallahassee, Florida. Tropical Smoothie Cafe is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2006, the Cafe opened their 200th store in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and in 2011 they opened their 300th store in Fort Myers, Florida.
The trademark of this company was registered in USPTO bearing registration number 2918995 on January 18, 2005.