Systems and apparatuses for providing enhanced management of facilities
offering food, beverages, and associated goods and services in a retail
environment are disclosed herein. In one embodiment of the invention, a
quick-serve restaurant includes multiple above-counter cabinets, multiple
below-counter storage bins, and a service bar positioned in front of the
cabinets and the storage bins. In this embodiment, the above-counter
cabinets hold commercially-recognizable, retail-sale packages of
competitively-branded cereals for viewing by customers as they place
their orders. The below-counter storage bins contain the
competitively-branded cereals displayed in the above-counter cabinets.
The service bar is configured for use by employees of the restaurant in
preparing food orders that can include combinations of at least two or
more of the cereals contained in the storage bins.