With new owner Blackstone, Tropical Smoothie Cafe is confident it can speed up growth as a major national marketing push gets underway. Blackstone’s buy captures the Deal of the Year in the 13th ...

Charles Watson, who led Tropical Smoothie Cafe for more than six years and shepherded it through its acquisition by Blackstone, is joining Smalls Sliders as CEO, according to a press release ...

In April, Blackstone agreed to buy Tropical Smoothie Cafe, a franchiser of fast casual restaurants, from PE firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners. “Blackstone has deep experience helping ...

based, almost 900-unit Tropical Smoothie Cafe has been on an upswing. After being sold to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners in September, the company announced that they have seen a Q3 same-store ...