“Rarely does a restaurant tell you to leave your shoes at home,” said Eric Jenrich, co-founder of Tropical Smoothie Café. “We are telling you that now it’s OK. We want to provide our customers a tropical vacation in their mouth and National Flip Flop Day is our way of celebrating the start of summer by saying ‘come in, relax, and kick back with your flip flops and savor a refreshing, healthy treat.’”

Jenrich noted that the first 500 customers who come in to a Tropical Smoothie Café wearing flip flops on June 21st will receive a free 24-oz. Jetty Punch™ smoothie.

Café employees will be wearing spirited t-shirts and buttons with flip flop insignias to build excitement for the June 21st event. The brand, which enjoys the tropical spirit year-round, is eager to start summer on the right foot and get their customers into a tropical frame of mind.

“Everyone loves to slip on a pair of flip flops and sip a frosty beverage while enjoying the warm breeze. On June 21st, we hope to jump start summer with a new holiday tradition that really conveys this tropical feeling to our customers,” said Jenrich.

Children and adults alike can also satisfy their taste buds with an array of specialty wraps, gourmet sandwiches and salads that offer a tasty treat in a tropical aura. Tropical Smoothie Café offers consumers, in more than 31 states, an enticing selection of breakfast, lunch and dinner options including more than 35 real-fruit smoothies blended together to create an intense mouthwatering experience.

About Tropical Smoothie Café

Established in Destin, Florida in 1997, Tropical Smoothie Café has taken the smoothie concept to the next level offering diners a healthy alternative. The concept, which introduced food in 1999, provides consumers with a variety of high-quality real-fruit smoothies, specialty wraps, gourmet sandwiches and salads. Tropical Smoothie Café includes menu options for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ranked 127 out 500 and rated one of the fastest growing franchises by Entrepreneur Magazine, the concept currently has 245 locations in 31 states with four locations in India. Plans call for more than 400 locations by the end of 2008, and an additional 200 by the end of 2009