Storage and transport requirements are useful inputs when planning a café’s ingredient costs. Check each product’s instructions before comparing suppliers.
This article focuses on BlessMe storage before and after opening, and questions to include in your cost planning.
What is Cold Chain Logistics?
Cold chain refers to temperature-controlled storage and transport. Requirements depend on the product; follow its supplier’s instructions.
When sourcing temperature-sensitive ingredients, ask about transport conditions, receiving checks and in-store storage.
Costs to check for temperature-controlled ingredients
- Request a delivery quote for your destination
- Confirm minimum order requirements
- Include potential waste in your cost plan
- Include storage equipment, electricity and maintenance
- Plan receiving checks and opening-date records
- Match purchase quantities to expected use
Use actual quotes and your own operating costs; this article does not provide a market cost benchmark.
Compare storage requirements
Compare each topping’s unopened and opened storage requirements, rather than inferring them from the product category.
Decide which ingredients fit your available storage and planned menu.
Unopened and Opened Storage for BlessMe Popping Boba
BlessMe’s storage guidance is:
- Unopened: store at room temperature for 12 months from manufacture. After opening: keep tightly closed and refrigerated at 4°C or below for up to 1 month.
- Check manufacture dates when planning stock use
- Confirm transport arrangements with the team
Room-temperature storage applies only to unopened packs. After opening, keep tightly closed and refrigerated at 4°C or below for up to 1 month. These storage instructions do not establish whether a product contains preservatives.
What This Means for Your Café's Operations
Use the storage guidance to plan purchasing and refrigerator space:
- Confirm delivery charges rather than assuming savings
- No minimum order; buy quantities suited to your usage
- Plan stock use around manufacture and opening dates
- Store unopened packs at room temperature
- Reserve refrigerator space for opened packs
- Record opening dates and keep opened packs tightly closed at 4°C or below
Storage Best Practices for BlessMe Popping Boba
- Unopened: store at room temperature for 12 months from manufacture. After opening: keep tightly closed and refrigerated at 4°C or below for up to 1 month.
- Label containers with the date opened
- Check the remaining shelf life before ordering
The Bottom Line for Thai Café Operators
Unopened room-temperature storage does not remove the need to refrigerate opened BlessMe packs. Include both stages in your storage plan.
Barley, Oat, Red Bean and Osmanthus Konjac cost 90 THB per pack; Moji Yogurt costs 120 THB. Each pack is 500g with 300g drained weight. At 15g drained per serving: 20 servings, costing 4.50 THB (90 THB pack) or 6.00 THB (Moji Yogurt), before shipping, tax and waste.
Request samples by emailing Blessme.team@gmail.com.
