Yes, is the short answer. First of all, cleaning the Portobello ice cream machine takes 5-10 minutes per day compared to 2-4 hours for a soft serve machine. Secondly, the built-in technology of the Portobello machine allows fwip to diagnose and solve 85% of problems remotely which means you are up and running in hours, not days. Finally, in case a machine needs to be repaired or replaced, its light weight of 14 kg makes it very easy to be picked up and returned by a courier in no time.

The Portobello ice cream machine and freezer have an annual energy consumption of 1,269 kwh. Depending on the model, a soft serve ice cream machine consumes between 15,175 and 44,325 kwh.

fwip has several ice cream equipment solutions with various footprints. The smallest option is a stand-alone (the freezer placed elsewhere) Portobello ice cream machine which measures 72 cm in height, 34 cm in width and 53 cm in depth. Soft serve ice cream machines are large and heavy in general, the footprint of the smallest machine is 0.4 sqm.

Depending on your chosen business solution, the Portobello works out at between two and ten times less expensive than a traditional soft serve ice cream machine. And that’s before you even factor in the costs for servicing, cleaning, managing wastage and buying the large number of spare parts required to maintain a soft serve ice cream machine.

A typical soft serve machine can offer your customers only one flavour and If you upgrade to a more expensive model you can offer a whopping two flavours. With fwip’s pod system, you can offer as many flavours as you want at any given time.