Cuervo Tequila is Now the Official Sponsor of Your Summer Fridays

Jun. 14, 2026

Cuervo^® Tequila, the world's first and best-selling tequila, is stepping in to save Summer Fridays from their greatest threat: the 4 p.m. Friday meeting.

Now through Labor Day, Cuervo is officially declaring Summer Fridays a mandated good time, encouraging margarita lovers everywhere to close their laptops, start their weekends early and Keep It Cuervo all summer long.

To help people reclaim their Friday afternoons, Cuervo is launching Summer Fridays HQ at www.cuervo.com/summer-friday, the internet’s only corporate benefits portal dedicated to getting you out of the office with downloadable excuses, out-of-office templates, cocktail recipes and more. Visitors can also expense a Cuervo cocktail or pour (up to $10 while supplies last) and enter for a chance to win $1,500 toward the ultimate Summer Friday experience.

Cuervo has been in the business of making Friday afternoons better since 1795. Now it’s time to make it official… which brings us to the following VERY important memo from the brand.

Dear Margarita Lovers Everywhere,

The proliferation of 4 p.m. Friday calendar invites has reached a crisis point: Summer Fridays are in danger. After careful internal review, Cuervo Tequila has determined the most effective countermeasure is a Cuervo Margarita, sipped away from the office, preferably on a rooftop, and served in a perfectly chilled margarita glass or poolside with a new Cuervo Canned Cocktail, if bandwidth permits.

Effective immediately, all employees are strongly encouraged to:

• Close their laptops by 1 p.m. on Fridays.
• Relocate meetings to patios whenever possible.
• Replace the phrase “per my last email” with “logging off for the weekend.”
• Prioritize margaritas over miscellaneous administrative tasks.
• Keep It Cuervo.

To support this initiative, Cuervo is launching Summer Fridays HQ at www.cuervo.com/summer-friday, the only corporate benefits portal that offers tools and resources to expedite an early departure (no manager approval required), including:

Official Doctor’s Notes (cough cough)

• Signed by Dr. Marg A. Rita, board-certified in Summer Fridays and highly qualified to diagnose a severe case of “Premature Weekend Onset” and “Chronic Late-Friday Productivity Decline” ailments. Downloadable and ready to submit.

Out-of-Office Replies

• Curated out-of-office messages for Cuervo margarita sipping. Copy, paste, log off, done.

Reaction GIFs

• For situations where words are insufficient and a margarita-themed GIF communicates everything.

Video Call Backgrounds

• Appear office-adjacent while actually being beach-adjacent with a Cuervo Canned Cocktail in hand.

Margarita Recipes

• Because a Summer Friday without a margarita is just a Friday, these Cuervo margarita recipes ensure the afternoon is as well-executed as any Q3 presentation.

ACTION ITEMS - CUERVO TEQUILA’S NEW CORPORATE PERK PACKAGE

Friday afternoons were made for margaritas, not meetings, and Cuervo Tequila’s corporate perk package on Summer Fridays HQ has arrived to help. Please complete by close of business and reclaim your Summer Friday afternoons:

• Expense Your Margarita: Submit one Cuervo pour or cocktail receipt (up to $10) for reimbursement every Friday, all summer. The only thing you’ll be synergizing is a closed laptop with a Cuervo margarita.
• Enter the Ultimate Summer Friday Sweepstakes: Six contest winners receive $1,500 to fund the ideal Summer Friday and up to 300 sweepstakes winners receive $25 toward their next Cuervo margarita.
• Log off. Seriously, log off.

CONCLUSION

For generations, workplaces have been powered by coffee. Summer Fridays deserve something bolder and more fun. The water-cooler conversation
belongs on a patio. The work-bestie plans deserve to escape the group chat. The memes deserve to become real-life laughs. We call it the Cuervo Effect. This summer, Keep It Cuervo. The first margarita is on us.

Regards,
Cuervo Tequila, The Official Sponsor of Summer Fridays