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How To Set The Perfect Table For Your Customer

Leigh Morrisett — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:55:22 +0000

The term dinnerware may seem ambiguous, so how do you know what to include in your dinnerware product line and what markets to target? Dinnerware includes items such as plates, bowls, glassware, flatware, barware and even bakeware. These are items easily found on the kitchen or dining room table and sometimes referred to as tableware. Whatever term you wish to use, they are big business in gift and decorating markets.

Assortment Of Dinnerware

Who needs and wants tableware? Every bride and groom wants the perfect place setting. Did you know that the bridal market accounts for almost half of all dinnerware sales? Most of these sales come from wedding registries. Think of wedding registry sales as your bread and butter while individual sales from glassware, bakeware and tea sets are icing on the cake.

Bring On A Hearty Appetite For Tableware

The key to selling tableware of any type is presentation. Just like with a meal, the visual aspect is what brings them to the table. Once you have drawn them in visually, they will explore the variety of tastes (or in this case prices) that are available. Brides tend to be visually driven without regard to price. Other customers tend to be “need” driven and conscious of price. Brides purchase dinnerware to establish their homes. However, other customers buy tableware items to enhance or update their existing dinnerware.

Perfect Anniversary Glassware

As a result, it is imperative that you have a mixture of both high-end dinnerware items as well as mid-priced tableware items. Offering high-end old English plates alongside moderately priced crystal glassware is a way to appeal visually to brides while capturing the interest of other customers. Keep in mind that wedding registry items are purchased as gifts. Brides may not be price conscious but the gift buyers may be. Creating a table with compatible items in a wide ranges of price keeps gift-givers from leaving empty handed. As brides make selections for their bridal registry remind them to include some moderately price items.

Brides aren’t the only ones sitting down to your table. Apply the same basic principles as you set the tables for these customers. Create a display table with eclectic flair. Put some modern pieces in with some traditional pieces. The main idea is to show the different type of products you are selling. By mixing mid priced with high-end pieces the focus shifts from price to beauty. Keep in mind that candle sticks, tea sets or even bakeware are bought as gifts for birthdays and anniversaries. Take time to set the table for these gift-giving events.

Setting The Table For Special Occasions

Birthday Gift Idea Napkin Rings

Since half of your sales will come from special occasions other then weddings, you need to market to them as well. Create event table settings with items that can be added to existing dinnerware items including suggestive signs like “the perfect anniversary gift”. Try this idea as a way to increase sales for birthday gifts: Set a table with stemware or other tableware items and a toaster with a sign that says “what do you think she’d rather have?” Using ideas such as these gives consumers ideas that they may not have thought of for gifts.

Dinner parties use placecards to direct guests. As you set the tables for your customers don’t forget the placecards (great anniversary gift, perfect for her birthday, etc.). If you set the table right they will buy. Setting the perfect table is easy provided you keep a few things in mind: variety in price points, convenient and easy wedding registries, effective signage. Of course to set the perfect table for your customers you need the right wholesale dinnerware.

The tableware vendors at FGmarket can provide you with all the wholesale glassware, dinnerware, flatware, napkins and other wholesale table top items needed to create the perfect mix for your table.

How Do You Feel About Hand Blown Glass Tumblers?

Brynn — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:00:59 +0000

Regardless of the answer, it will be a resounding “love them!” after viewing the artisan glassware from See More Glass designed by Meryl L. Wolper. Unique designs that include dichroic glass shards positively jump out and scream “buy me!”

Enjoy Entertaining With Unique Glass Tumblers

Everyone has been to a friend’s house who had funky glassware. Here in the South, the first question is usually “where’d you get that?” Attractive glassware pieces like these are craved because of their quirkiness. Today’s customers want to stand out and be recognized for having a unique feature or many fine table top pieces with unique features. This is where the glassware from See More Glass comes in handy for your store.

Hand blown glass tumblers from See More Glass are designed with the the highest standards of beauty. Meryl L. Wolper has an eye for unique design. From red garnet to cobalt blue tumblers, each piece of artisan glassware excites a different emotion. Cobalt blue tumblers are a reminder of calm strength and power. The amethyst tumblers serve as a reminder of happily playing children. It is difficult to keep from experiencing a pleasing memory when holding these glasses.

Each hand blown glass tumbler from See More Glass is dishwasher safe and sturdy. Functional and fun? It’s hard to beat that. In fact, it’s almost impossible. These are the pieces that your customers will want to share with friends when entertaining but keep out for daily use also. This is a very desirable quality in any product today. The practicality and amazing design of glassware like this makes it almost too easy to use these qualities to your advantage as unique selling points.

Define Elegance With Silver Tableware From Leeber Limited

Brynn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:00:25 +0000

Leeber Limited USA is where tableware meets pure elegance. It’s as simple as that. From silver tea sets to fabulous place settings, some of the finest table decorations designs start with wholesale tableware from Leeber Limited USA.

Elegant Silver Barware

Assuming the night begins with a small drink among friends, barware is a necessary addition to an evening of entertaining. Consumers wanting to entertain their employers or clients will love fine silver barware such as liquor flasks, corked stoppers and single shot glasses. Shaken-not-stirred has a far more pronounced appeal when poured from silver martini shakers. When impressions matter, this is the barware of choice.

Next is everyone’s favorite part–the meal. Entertaining on paper plates is simply out of the question. Instead, the most elegant dinnerware is a must. Silver dinnerware from Leeber Limited provides no impressions other than quality and sophistication. With a very sophisticated sheen, this dinnerware quickly says good things of the host. When the host prepares for the next event, your store will be his first stop for more products like these.

Serving caviar on plastic spoons is never a good idea for a host. A quality hosts knows that hor d’oeuvres are served on platters. Silver platters, serving plates and dinner plates bring the same level of elegance to each course. There is no finer way to serve a meal and by proxy no finer way to serve customers wanting elegant barware and tableware.

Where Form & Function Meet Perfection: Great Bay Pottery

Brynn — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:00:45 +0000

Collect All Dinnerware Pieces

When your customers want to feel good about the products that they are purchasing, direct them to handmade pottery from Great Bay Pottery. The wholesale home decor and tableware from Great Bay Pottery leaves the distinctly confident impression that each purchase is the right purchase.

When it comes right down to it, there is no better feeling for a buyer. With two unique ace-in-the-hole qualities, wholesale pottery from Great Bay Pottery leaves your customers and you with this feeling.

Indulgence: Small indulgences are a huge consumer trend. The desire to pamper oneself with a small treat every now and again is what makes this the perfect time to offer unique tableware products. Many of the tableware products from Great Bay Pottery come in sets. Offering cream and sugar sets with lighthouse decorations alongside cereal bowls and mugs with the same decorations gives your customers the opportunity to collect pieces over time. Repeat business. Repeat exposure to your new products. Repeat customer satisfaction. It all starts with catering to one little whim.

These Containers Make Storage Fun!

Functionality: To most, design and form mean nothing without functionality. Products must be practical as well as beautiful. Every piece of handmade pottery from Great Bay Pottery is designed with this mindset. Every product has a unique function.

Whether bakeware, dinnerware, fun storage containers, or serving pieces, each piece carries with it a practical quality. Because this pottery has so many uses, each piece becomes like a potato chip. You can’t have just one!!

Want a product that practically sells itself? Try the wholesale handmade pottery from Great Bay Pottery. By catering to two basic desires of each and every customer, these products will not stay on your shelves for long.

What Offering Porcelain Dinnerware Says About You

Brynn — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:00:12 +0000

You’re in the know about quality wholesale products. You desire the best for your customers. You want to see happy, smiling faces returning to your store. You know this. Arzberg Porzellan knows this. These reasons are precisely why their porcelain dinnerware is the right fit for your customers.

Elegant Porcelain Tea Sets

Now most assume that porcelain dinnerware, rather porcelain anything, is best suited for a certain niche. However, Arzberg Porzellan assumes that everyone wants attractive and interesting dinnerware. Whether intrigued by striking colors and patterns or entertained more by skilled craftsmanship and unique design, every piece of porcelain dinnerware from Arzberg Porzellan has an attractive quality that engages customers.

So what does this fine porcelain dinnerware say to your customers about you? The intricate, contemporary design of the Profi, Form 2006, Tric, Cucina, Move, and Loop collection says that you favor a refined taste. Where others look just for eye-catching appeal, you look for something unique and engaging–a talking piece for the next dinner party perhaps.

Make A Splash With Porcelain Dinnerware

The classic design of the Form 1382, Form 2000, and Cult collections say that you enjoy the traditional appeal of simple elegance. Clean and precise yet never dull, these pieces reflect an inner desire to be more posh than practical and more grace than grandeur.

The fact that these pieces are Arzberg Porzellan means that you value quality and durability. When your customers choose to invest in dinnerware from your store, they are wanting producs that stand the test of time but maintain the same high quality on the last day of use as on the first day.

Never struggle again to let your customers know that high quality, beauty, longevity and elegance means something to you because it means something to them. Show them with this elegant porcelain dinnerware.

Crave Whimsical Tableware? Here Is All U Can Handle

Brynn — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:00:25 +0000

Mugs & More From All U Can Handle

Party up in here! All U Can Handle is the aptly titled company that brings a striking blend of whimsy and retro appeal to party tableware. There’s more to these products than just their colorful designs but let’s start with that.

Wow! Vibrant colors perfectly complement one another when placed together on the handle of corn cob holders or ice cream scoops from All U Can Handle. It’s the tableware that plays along when you want to have fun in the kitchen. There are many things to enjoy from All U Can Handle such as chip and dip trays, colorful cake servers, cookie jars, cereal bowls, cream and sugar sets, coffee mugs and more. With the never ending palette of funky colors and designs, this is the most fun party tableware around!

Give your customers a break from boring tableware. Most people focus on the food rather than the serving pieces, but this creative tableware puts the bling back into party utensils. The functionality and design of this tableware makes each piece the perfect piece for this year’s celebration, next year’s special event, and the big occasion in the following year. Wash, rinse, repeat because these bold beauties won’t stay in the cabinet very long.

The Festive Way To Eat Chips & Dip!

Have customers celebrating a child’s birthday party? Barmitzvah? Quinceanera? Graduation? Whatever the occasion, let loose the fun with party tableware that stands out from All U Can Handle. Each piece is vibrantly colored, has a unique design, can be used over and over for many occasions, and is a cut above boring stainless steel or (dare I say it) plastic utensils. Wholesale tableware like this makes it easy to give a growing child the party of their dreams.

In the mood for something fun at a baby shower, retirement party, Super Bowl party or spring fling celebration? Adult parties are fun too. Five to 95, the party attitude is always a-go and this kind of tableware makes the event even more worth celebrating. Whatever the party or even no party, this fun and festive wholesale tableware is a must-have for your customers.

Why Grandma, What Fabulous Barware You Have!

Brynn — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:00:48 +0000

The good news is that you don’t have to be called “grandma” to have fabulous wholesale crystal barware. Macryl-Crystal makes it easy for your customers to have very impressive barware for entertaining or enjoying alone.

Contemporary barware is beautiful. This style of barware is dominated by unique shapes and colors. Even contemporary crystal barware is often given these features. Not only does this trend reflect your customers desire for attention-grabbing products, it also provides for stunning crystal barware such as the unique gifts from Macryl-Crystal.

Enjoy Elegant Crystal Barware

Septagonal and octagonal shapes give Macryl-Crystal clear barware sets a very appealing look. Designs such as the Naples Collection are very linear but shapely; traditional and elegant while contemporary and beautiful. Even the orb shaped stoppers of the crystal whiskey bottles brings forth visions of the most modern and inspiring architecture. Who knew enjoying a drink could be so stimulating?

Cut crystal is equally enthralling. Many crystal companies have made their name with finely cut crystal of the highest quality. In the same way, Macryl-crystal brings high quality cut crystal barware sets to the table. Top it all off with a fine liquor and the evening is set!

When customers come to your store in search of a great gift idea, offer crystal barware. The enthralling beauty of each piece will have your customers’ eyes shining brighter than the crystal itself. These are great birthday and wedding gifts, especially for an employer or another person who really needs to be impressed.

Applaud Table Top Ceramics With A Hearty Bravo!

Brynn — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:00:05 +0000

Any product made right in the US is a big win with patriotic customers wanting the same high quality table top items. Your store will earn major kudos when you supply your customers with handcrafted pottery from Bravo Original Ceramic Designs. Proudly hand-thrown, slabbed and slip casted in New York with the beauty of rural nature as the inspiration. You can’t get much more “real American” than that.

Textured porcelain bowls have a unique characteristic that always goes over well with creative customers. Call it personality, character, or some other flashy term, textured porcelain is a break from the standard plain finish of other pottery.

Instead, the textured porcelain bowls from Bravo Original Ceramic Designs have a unique feeling that titillates the sense of touch. Each original piece, unique in and of itself, is given another reason to be celebrated by this simple feature.

Ceramic bowls are available, of course, but what is wholesale pottery without more fun options for your customers? Framed invitations are an excellent gift idea for weddings, baby showers, graduations and other occasions. Candle holders are always popular but these unique ceramic candle holders are even more desirable.

Frames, mirrors, tea sets, trays, atomizers, soap bottles, creative vases and other ceramic pottery items are also available from Bravo Original Ceramic Designs. Looking for an exciting addition to your table top products? Bravo makes it happen for your store with unique teapots, goblets, pedestal dishes, creative vases, sugar and creamer sets and more. That’s something for everyone!

Want A Unique Selling Point? Get It With Emerson Creek Pottery

Brynn — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:00:44 +0000

Want a unique selling point? Try history, quality and value.

Wisteria Ceramic Dinnerware

Emerson Creek Pottery knows each of these well. It’s obvious from the first visit to their website, the first glance at their product line and designs, and the remarkable history that surrounds their pieces.

Even the location of the store is deeply rooted in history and covered in the wealth of reputation that comes from being a piece of what made this country what it is today. In the same way, each piece of handcrafted American pottery brings with it that worldly sense of honor and pride that is associated with a good patriot.

There exists a variety of products from which to choose at Emerson Creek Pottery. All handcrafted and hand painted with detail, you can find ceramic dinnerware, bakeware, kitchenware, bathroom accessories, pitchers, teapots and tea sets, servingware and quite a lot more for your customers or for your own home.

Tuscan Olive Ceramic Dinnerware

The styles and designs are nearly as many as the categories of products. Wisteria, lavender, field of iris and buttercup, dogwood and red poppy are pretty floral patterns that speak to the desire to warm ourselves in front of a country hearth. Blueberry, tuscan olive and cranberry revive visions of running through orchards and vineyards playing hide-and-seek with young friends.

Dragonfly, snowman, rooster and “go green” patterns speak to specific niches of collectors who decorate their homes in a very unique theme. Now there is something for them to love in your store also!

With something for everyone, it is difficult not to find at least one reason why each customer would be pleased with this wholesale pottery. However, if a truly unique selling point is right up your alley, consider historical significance. A quick visit to Emerson Creek Pottery will reveal that intense feeling that immediately stirs revolutionary American morale. The kind of patriotism to which we all aspire was prevalent in those days and still can be. Emerson Creek Pottery keeps this spirit alive and ready to share with you and your customers. Which of your competitors can say that about their products? Be the first.

Exquisite Tastes Require Caviar Star

Brynn — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:00:36 +0000

Caviar Serving Sets

Elegant serving pieces and flatware from Caviar Star are the must-have items for caviar aficianados. Whether enjoying beluga caviar or tasty smoked cod roe, Caviar Star has the serving pieces that every sophisticate needs for entertaining.

Have a sophisticated clientele or wish to offer more upscale products for your customers? Browse some of the wonderful products at Caviar Star. Your customers will appreciate being able to find high-end, high quality products at your store. When the season of soirees and galas returns, you’ll be the first stop on the list for wonderful caviar serving products.

The most popular types of caviar are derived from the sturgeon fish. Caviar serving bowls with a sturgeon rim add just enough whimsy to be well received by high brow clientele. Caviar is usually served chilled so offering crystal caviar chillers is an excellent way to ensure that your clients have the elegant serving pieces that keep the quality of their caviar at its finest. But what is there to dip into the chiller for a taste of the roe? Well, mother of pearl serving spoons remove each and every tasty morsel of caviar so that no delicious moment is wasted.

Crystal Chillers from Caviar Star

Caviar Star has more than just high end serving pieces and flatware. Caviar Star has the many products that your customers will need to throw an elegant soiree with fine caviar. Want to recommend great gift ideas to your customers? Gourmet gift baskets and other gift ideas are available.

Also available from Caviar Star are smoked fish, caviar serving pieces, imported and farm raised caviar, escargots and more which bring out the most sophisticated of tastes in your customers–not to mention, speak very highly of your exquisite taste in quality table top products.