Using Acrylic Dry Food Dispensers In Your Store

As a store or restaurant owner, you’re probably of one of two minds:

1. I know I need acrylic dry food dispensers. My store (or restaurant) sells dry foods, and these dispensers help me store and display them. They also help my customers easily access the food.
2. I don’t know if I need acrylic dry food dispensers. I don’t sell anything like cereal, so, do I really need these kinds of containers?

Dry food containers come in a variety of styles and offer much versatility, and the fact is most stores and restaurants – like the ones listed below – can make use of dry food containers.

Hotels and Resorts

Most hotels and resorts offer at least continental breakfasts to their customers. Plastic dry food containers work perfectly to hold and display breakfast items like cereals. Dispensers designed to hang from the wall and allow customers to access the food through retention knobs are generally the best containers for foods like cereal, but other containers – like those with wide openings to allow room for scoops or tongs – work well for foods like bagels, donuts, and muffins.

Those hotels and resorts that offer a full range of dining options can also use these dispensers to hold and display lunch and dinner foods like rolls, sandwich meats and toppings, and dessert items like cakes, brownies, cupcakes, and fudge.

Cafeterias

Cafeterias like those you find in schools and institution settings can certainly use acrylic dry food containers. Like hotels and resorts, cafeterias can choose dispensers designed to mount to the wall for their cereals, or open containers with lids for their breads, fruits, and sandwich toppings. Even the commercial kitchens behind the scenes of the actual cafeterias can use these dispensers to organize and store food items.

Specialty Shops

There are a variety of uses for dry food dispensers in specialty shops. Yogurt and ice cream shops can use these containers as topping dispensers. They will organize and keep separated the different kinds of toppings, as well as allow customers a clear view and easy access to the toppings they want.

Bagel shops, bakeries, and delis can also use acrylic food dispensers to hold the different kinds of food items they offer. Bagel shops can use them to separate the raisin bagels from the chocolate chip bagels, just as bakeries can use them to keep the brownies with nuts separated from the brownies without nuts. Delis that allow customers to add their own sandwich toppings might use these containers to hold items like lettuce, tomatoes, and pickles.

Grocery Stores

Many grocery stores have aisles dedicated to dry goods that customers can select, measure, and bag themselves. These dry food range from candies to peanuts to coffees.

You might choose dispensers designed with openings so the customers can scoop the food out themselves, or you might want dispensers with retention knobs that customers can twist until they obtain the amount of food they want. Regardless of the kind of dispensers you choose, it’s important to select dispensers made of clear acrylic so customers can easily view the food items.

Unique Counter Top Displays for Stores and Restaurants

Counter top displays are great ways for any storeowner to showcase additional merchandise. These displays – generally constructed of colored or clear plastic containers – offer customers a look at extra items while allowing those smaller items to stay in clear view of the store’s employees and safe from sticky fingers.

Whether your store sells food, non-edible merchandise, or a mix or both, you can use these displays. Below are some of the most common places you can use counter top displays in your store, as well as ideas for the kinds of merchandise you can display.

Convenience Stores and Specialty Shops

Convenience stores are probably the most popular location for counter top displays. Convenience store customers can find a wide assortment of food and nonfood items like within these displays. Gumballs, bulk candy, children’s toys, travel-sized hygiene items you might have forgotten to pack – you can find them all within the plastic containers that make up convenience store displays.

However, specialty shops that don’t focus on convenience items can also use counter top displays. Jewelry boutiques, for example, might arrange these displays to hold samples of jewelry cleaner or small clothes designed to clean rings, necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. At the same time, hobby shops like those that sell sports memorabilia might use counter top displays to offer customers a look at key chains or cards that feature their favorite team or player as they check out.

Bakeries and Delis

Bakeries and delis – like yogurt shops, ice cream shops, and bagel shops – can use counter top displays made of plastic containers to both display and store their food items. Deli-style restaurants can use the containers to hold and store their sandwich makings, but yogurt and ice cream shops can make extra use of these containers when they use them as yogurt topping dispensers and ice cream topping dispensers. They can position these dispensers into attractive counter top displays that are convenient for both the shop’s employees and customers.

These kinds of shops can also use clear plastic containers to hold nonfood items like utensils, napkins, and drink-related items like cups, lids, and straws. Chances are that every customer is going to need these kinds of items, and counter top displays make it easy for customers to get what they need without waiting in line or asking wait staff for assistance.

Cafeteria Environments

In most cafeteria environments – such as those you’d find in a hotel, hospital, school lunchroom, and institution – food preparation and storage goes on behind the scenes. Plastic containers are helpful in these situations – as well as for buffet-style cafeterias that place all food items out for customers – but counter top displays come in especially handy for showcasing additional food items for which customers or diners don’t need a server. Such items might include:

• Additional meal items like bags of chips, dinner rolls, and fruit.
• Dessert items like brownies, pieces of cake, cookies, or candy bars.
• Nonfood items like utensils, napkins or hand wipes, and drinking cups, lids, and straws.

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