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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-25-2016, 11:44 PM:
 
I keep a plastic salt shaker on my candy counter for people to salt their popcorn. Every once in a great while my salt shaker goes missing when someone decides that he needs it more than I do.

I've always thought that a salt shaker that could be tied down like those pens that you see in banks would be a wonderful thing to have, but I've never seen such a thing anywhere. I asked the outfit that I purchase my popcorn supplies from about it once and they've never heard of anything like that either.

A while back my supply of extra plastic salt shakers started getting pretty low (down the last two) and I started trying to find new ones. I want plastic and not glass for obvious reasons.

I have now spent a couple of years looking and have discovered that plastic salt shakers are almost extinct. No restaurant supply store or website, dollar store or housewares department in something like Walmart has such a thing. Everything is either glass or ceramic. Plastic salt shakers occasionally show up on ebay but even the plain ones are apparently "collectibles" and sell for something like $50 a pair. Every time I pass a likely looking store I always look for plastic salt shakers and never can find any.

My wife was just visiting her mother in Mauritius and guess what: She found some plastic salt shakers! A street peddler of all people had them for 20 rupees a pair (about 60 cents). So she bought a dozen from him and brought them home in her suitcase. They're nothing special and just as cheaply made as you would expect a 60 cent item to be, but they are salt shakers and they are made of plastic so yahoo. I've finally managed to get a stock of plastic salt shakers again.

And my wife only had to travel 10,023 miles each way to get them for me.
 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 10-26-2016, 01:05 AM:
 
Frank, are you talking about something like this?
Disposable Salt Shaker

We use shakers like this which we fill with the fine grain snack and nut salt. They have a variety of lids you can use. The green one is what you would get for a fine grain salt.
Polycarbonate Shaker
 

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Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 10-26-2016, 01:54 AM:
 
Well, isn't that interesting. I guess I should have asked about this here a few years back.

Oh well. I have several years supply of salt shakers in stock now, especially since I have learned to keep an eagle eye on my salt shaker so it rarely goes missing any more.

And my wife got a kick out of presenting me with my new 60-cent salt shakers. The price was right for the salt shakers, but the commute is a bit of a bear.

As for the holes, I put a piece of tape on the inside of the top and then use a pin to punch out the holes that I really want.

I don't think I would want to use that green-lid salt shaker here. It looks too easy and tempting for a customer to take the lid off. "It isn't coming out fast enough."
 

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Posted by Marcel Birgelen (Member # 6801) on 10-26-2016, 04:12 AM:
 
What's wrong with a Metal salt shaker with a handle?

The handle can be used to tie it down.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-26-2016, 11:22 AM:
 
Heck we've used glass salt shakers for my whole career in the business. We just use a kitchen-table type. Yes, it goes missing now and then but we always keep a spare in the storeroom. It's been dropped on the floor countless times by kids and we've never broken one yet.

We use two shakers -- regular salt in one, and Flavacol in the other. The funny thing about the Flavocal one is, lots of people think it's cheese-flavored salt...I hear the concession crew setting people straight on a regular basis.
 

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Posted by Mike Schulz (Member # 4297) on 10-26-2016, 05:24 PM:
 
One of the theatres I worked at many years ago used 2oz condiment cups. We would fill them up about 1/4 with popcorn salt and then poke holes into the lids with a push pin. This was our solution to inevitably losing our bigger salt shakers that we kept next to our butter dispensers and it worked great.

Here is an example of what we used but they sell them just about anywhere.
 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 10-26-2016, 06:18 PM:
 

quote: Frank Cox

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I don't think I would want to use that green-lid salt shaker here. It looks too easy and tempting for a customer to take the lid off. "It isn't coming out fast enough."

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