Case Study: Rocket Fizz achieves faster franchise rollouts and centralized inventory control with Lightspeed

Rocket Fizz cut franchisee setup time from 5 days to 4 hours

Rocket Fizz, a Sherman Oaks-based soda pop and candy retailer founded in 2009, operates two company-owned stores and nearly 70 franchises across 16 states, selling 500+ soda varieties (100 made in-house) and over 2,000 candy SKUs. Rapid expansion and high SKU turnover — with 50–300 product name changes weekly — left co-owner Richard Shane needing a cloud POS that could provide revenue roll-ups, remote store monitoring and fast, easy deployment for new franchise openings.

After testing multiple systems, Rocket Fizz implemented Lightspeed Retail, which handles their complex inventory and frequent product updates, lets franchisees choose Macs, Windows touch PCs or tablets, and enables iPad inventory counts while keeping data in the cloud. The result: setup time for new locations fell from five days to three or four (a 20–40% improvement), franchise rollouts are simpler, and centralized sales and performance reporting give the owners real-time oversight and secure data access.

Rocket Fizz

Richard Shane

Co-owner