Buying Guide

Find the Right Vitamix Blender for Your Needs

Whether you're operating a café, smoothie bar, restaurant, hotel, or commercial kitchen, choosing the right Vitamix blender depends on your volume, environment, and application.

Use this guide to compare Vitamix commercial blender models and find the best solution for your business.


Beverage Blenders

Designed for smoothies, frozen drinks, cocktails, coffee beverages, thickshakes, juices, and other high-volume drink applications.

The Quiet One

Perfect For

    • Juice and smoothie shops, pubs/bars, coffee shops, milk bars, restaurants, front of house and venues that require a quiet, quick and powerful blender
    • Blending a variety of textures in high volumes including- smoothies, cocktails, thickshakes, coffee drinks, juices, ice cream, ice and powders
    • Customers who require ultimate consistency with custom programmed settings

    Key Features

    • Six programmable push buttons with 34 stored program options with auto shut-off
    • Unparalleled sound reduction from the removable sound-reducing enclosure
    • Powerful 3 HP motor
    • Pulse and manual functionality for fine tuning or refreshing blends
    • Advance 2L container with 1.4L measurement markers, lid and blade for optimum blending and pouring of dense beverages with no need for a tamper
    • LED screen with operating cycle and time data

    Recommended If

    You need the quietest and most automated Vitamix beverage blender available.


    Drink Machine Advance

    Perfect For

    • Milk bars, dairies, delis, bars/pubs, juice bars, cafes and restaurants that require a versatile blender that can handle dense ingredients and simple automated operation.
    • Blending fresh and frozen fruits, ice, powders, liquids, frappes, coffee mixes, protein blends and ice cream
    • Suitable for environments where quiet operation is not required

    Key Features

    • Six pre-programmed, automatic settings with auto shut-off
    • Pulse functionality for fine tuning or refreshing blends
    • Heavy duty, 2.3 HP motor
    • Advance 2L container with 1.4L measurement markers, lid and blade for optimum blending
    • Available in black or red base

    Recommended If

    You need a versatile commercial beverage blender without the requirement for quiet operation.


    Drink Machine Two-Speed

    Perfect For

    • Milk bars, coffee shops and restaurants that require an entry level blender with manual operation and shut-off
    • Blending fresh fruit, liquid smoothies, coffee mixes, ice and ice cream
    • Back of house or environments where quiet operation is not required

    Key Features

    • Essential two-speed functions, low or high
    • Heavy duty, reliable blender
    • Wet blade for smooth beverage blending
    • 1.4L container, lid and tamper stick to move ingredients towards the blade

    Recommended If

    You need a reliable entry-level commercial blender with simple manual controls.


    Food Blenders

    Designed for food preparation, pureeing, chopping, grinding, sauces, soups, and commercial kitchen applications.

    Vita-Prep 3

    Perfect For

      • Restaurants, hotels, nursing homes, hospitals, production kitchens, schools, catering companies and cafes that require a powerful back of house blender for culinary requirements
      • Pureeing, blending, chopping and grinding various ingredients

      Key Features

      • Basic variable speed functions
      • Powerful 3 HP motor
      • Heavy duty, reliable blender
      • Wet blade for smooth beverage blending
      • Tamper stick to move ingredients towards the blade
      • 2 Litre heavy duty container included

      Recommended If

      You need a powerful and versatile back-of-house food preparation blender.


      Vitamix XL

      Perfect For

      • Restaurants, hotels, nursing homes, hospitals, catering companies and cafes that require a large and powerful back of house blender for culinary requirements
      • Pureeing, blending, choping and grinding various ingredients
      • Institutions that require bulk processing and maximum efficiency

      Key Features

      • Extremely powerful 4.2 HP belt driven motor
      • Extra large 5.6 Litre container included for up to 24 x 240ml servings per batch
      • High performance blade design
      • Designed for optimum safety, versatility and ease of use
      • Tamper stick inclusion to move ingredients towards the blade

      Recommended If

      You need maximum capacity and productivity for large-scale food preparation.


      Quick Recommendations

      Café or Coffee Shop

      Recommended: The Quiet One or Drink Machine Advance

      Smoothie Bar or Juice Shop

      Recommended: The Quiet One

      Restaurant Kitchen

      Recommended: Vita-Prep 3

      Catering Business

      Recommended: Vita-Prep 3 or Vitamix XL

      Large Production Kitchen

      Recommended: Vitamix XL


      Need Help Choosing?

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