Root Beer Floats
Nichole
08/10/10 		Hello there! Our Boy Scout troop is looking into a fundraiser making rootbeer floats. The time slot is from 11:30am until 4:00pm. There will be a parade before and after we will serve, others will be hosting game sfor family fun during the Annual Fish Fry. The day is pretty hot. This is our first time in doing this, I have really no idea on how many people we will be serving, how many gallons of ice cream, cup size, and 2-liter pops. Not sure on a good price to sell either. Can you help? Thank you so much and look forward to hearing from you! Nichole
ellen
08/10/10 		Well, Nicole, you don't know how many you plan to serve, and you don't say what other refreshments are available, so I am kind of up he creek on trying to estimate.

Here are some things I can tell you.

Get enough ice and ice chests that the root beer is really cold before mixing.
Use a 12-14 ounce plastic glass with a straw and a plastic ice tea spoon for each one, and napkins available. Have an 8 ounce glass for kids under 12.

In the 14 ounce glass, add 8 ounce root beer, then a 1/2 cup scoop of ice cream, then root beer to top off, about 2 ounces. In the kid glass, 4 ounces soda, 1/3 cup scoop, top off with about 2 ounces.

1 gallon ice cream makes about 30 floats. A 2 liter bottle makes about 6 floats.

You need dry ice storage to hold the ice cream. DANGEROUS FOR CARELESS FOLK!!! Must be handled with gloves.

Have some sugar free root beer and some ice for folks who don't want floats. Adding iced tea and sweet ice tea will increase your profit at a very low cost.

Charge about 3-4 times what a float costs, or comparable to your local Sonic/ drive in. harge 1/2 that for the kids size.

Nichole
08/10/10 		Thank you!