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If you were looking for the article about the drink, then see Kelp Shake.
If you were looking for the article about the drink with a similar name, then see Kelp juice.
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Kelpshake is a defunct restaurant chain that only appears in the episode "Best Frenemies."

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Description[]

The store was a lime-green building in the shape of a Kelpshake bottle. It served as a competition to the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket for a short time. The restaurant had a basic interior with tiled floors, a counter, chairs and a big line. They were placed all over Bikini Bottom in random places, a new marketing strategy Mr. Barnacle of Barnacle Products Incorporated came up with. The Kelpshake logo displayed "KELPSHAKE" in a red font.

The restaurant also offered various desserts and pastries as a secondary item for customers.

The restaurant had the ability to multiply and would temporarily replace the Chum Bucket in the episode, though it would come back later in the episode. Despite the fact that one of the restaurants blocked the traffic by spawning in the middle of a road, a legal action was not taken until the end of the episode, and even then not for this reason as it was actually due to the hazardous ingredient.

Role in episode[]

When Mr. Krabs realizes his profits are going down, he finds out that the new restaurant, Kelpshake, has been selling a beverage called a Kelp Shake that is making Mr. Krabs lose the money the customers usually spend on drinks. Mr. Krabs believes the owner to be Plankton at first, but Plankton proves him to be wrong. The Kelpshake restaurants then start to multiply, and Mr. Krabs and Plankton realize that they are on every block.

When Mr. Krabs and Plankton obtain a Kelpshake and try one, they realize that the Kelp Shakes have an ingredient in it that make them grow yellowish-green fur all over their bodies. Soon everybody is affected with the same symptoms, and for this reason, the restaurants are shut down and forever closed down as the city sucks each one dry of the hazardous materials used for their drinks.

Trivia[]

  • Kelp Shake restaurants were a parody of coffee chains such as Starbucks, which have a reputation for quickly popping up in large numbers throughout an area.
  • At one point in the episode, there are three Kelp Shakes next to the Krusty Krab, two on the left and one on the right, but when SpongeBob talks to Mr. Krabs and Plankton inside the restaurant, two of the Kelp Shakes on the left outside are gone.
  • It is unknown who was in charge of the Kelpshakes stores or what punishment they or their employees faced aside from their company being permanently shut down.




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