Symmetry Nutrition Club

Left to right: Rhonda Anderson, Brady Barrett, and Justin Brandt

Photo: Art Sidner

Mankato: Symmetry Nutrition Club

Along with his family, then 15-year-old Justin Brandt (no relation to Kay Brandt) in 1988 moved from Green Bay to Mankato after his father accepted a job transfer. After high school, he held a number of sales and customer service jobs, culminating in sales positions with Kato Engineering and Katolight. When the latter company restructured in 2009, Brandt became unemployed. While working on a social work degree from Minnesota State University, he soon discovered a line of natural shakes/smoothies that helped him lose 40 pounds and “doubled my energy level,” said 39-year-old Brandt in a telephone interview.

“Until then, I was living the opposite of a healthy nutritious lifestyle,” he continued. “I was suffering the consequences, including being tired all the time, overweight, and depressed. It had come mostly from eating the American diet.”

He was introduced to a line of nutritious shakes through Energy Zone, a business in Mankato. After that business left town, Brandt and partner Rhonda Anderson liked the type of business so much they opened their own version at 634 South Front in September 2011. Symmetry Nutrition Club is as an independent distributor for a national brand using multi-level marketing.

To build their business, said Brandt, “Rhonda and I have invited thousands of people. We give customers a free nutrition meal—a smoothie—the first time in. About 90 percent of people love the taste and are surprised how good they feel from one smoothie.”

Since opening, the business has helped hundreds of people lose weight and feel better, said Brandt. Each pharmaceutical-grade shake/smoothie has 30 grams protein, six grams fiber, 24 vitamins/minerals, and 230 calories. Most customers use the shakes/smoothies to replace one meal a day. Brandt and Anderson also coach and educate people on eating properly. Symmetry shakes/smoothies can be enjoyed on site or taken home as a mix. Currently, they have 200 online customers and sell about 60 smoothies per day on Front Street.

Said Brandt, “I like seeing customers get weight-loss results and have more energy.”

Symmetry Nutrition Club
Hours: 7-3 M-F and 10-3 Saturday
Telephone: 317-2777
Location: 634 South Front