Brigadeiro rotation makes confectionery sales jump 900%

Leandra Winck opened the Brigadeiros da Li confectionery shop in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) 6 years ago. The entrepreneur saw her revenue jump in the last 6 months, from R$30,000 to R$300,000 per month, by offering a rotation of sweets.

A confectioner has been working with sweets for 10 years. The brigadeiro rotation is only offered on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. It costs R$54.90 per person. She says she serves around 500 people every day the new service is offered.

Winck works with her husband, Andreus Gavião. The two currently only have one store, but said they want to open another unit. “Leandra’s dream is to go to the Serra, Canela, Gramado region”declared Gavião, who also spoke of the desire to expand to the franchise model. The store currently has 30 employees.

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The beginning

The confectioner started selling brigadeiros on the street 10 years ago to pay for mining engineering college. She didn’t finish the course. He decided to dedicate himself fully to the business, which he began to expand: “The love for the brigadeiro spoke louder and I dropped everything and opened the store”.

She states that the rotation idea did not take off at first, in September 2025. The change came when she followed customer advice and started to include party snacks in the service. This meant that each customer started consuming, on average, 8 brigadeiros.

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Box with brigadeiros from the Brigadeiros da Li store

Flavors

The menu has 16 fixed and 27 varied flavors, which depend on suppliers. THE traditional and strawberry bonbon are the most successful.

“We always try to bring a different flavor. We test, adapt and improve the recipe. We have the most classic ones, which will always be there, and the most different ones. At the moment, everyone loves the blueberry one”, Winck said.

Read the Brigadeiros da Li menu

Fixed flavors:

• brigadier;
• white;
• prestige;
• strawberry;
• coco;
• nest with Nutella;
• churros;
• burnt coconut;
• white crunchy;
• black crunchy;
• brigadeiro with strawberry;
• white with strawberry;
• Ferrero Rocher
• burnt coconut with dulce de leche;
• married;
• stikadinho.

Various flavors:

• banana;
• menta;
• blueberry;
• lemon;
• creme brulee;
• pineapple with coconut;
• cherry;
• gum;
• cotton candy;
• floppy disk;
• charge;
• brigadeiro with Nutella;
• hazelnut;
• café;
• passion fruit;
• orange;
• strawberry with Nutella;
• banoffee;
• caramel;
• popcorn;
• Kinder;
• pistachios with chocolate;
• cheese;
• cheese with guava paste;
• Damascus;
• grape candy;
• strawberry candy.