Does Your Business Use Fishbowl Containers?

If your business isn’t using fishbowl containers, it should be! These cousins of the traditional round plastic containers you often see in candy shops and convenience stores are certainly useful for doing more than just holding fish and offer a convenient, attractive display option for a variety of businesses.

Fishbowls come in both glass and plastic, so you can choose the material that best suits your business’s environment. For example, if you manage a gas station that sees a great deal of steady traffic, or you operate a candy store and excited children make up the bulk of your customer base, choose plastic fishbowl containers. If your establishment operates at a slower pace or you’re looking for a more elegant feel for your display, consider glass fishbowl containers.

You can also find fishbowls in a variety of sizes, which means no matter how much space you have to work with, there’s a fishbowl for you! For example, if you manage a store with little countertop space to spare, you can use one or two small fishbowls or just one large fishbowl. If you’re running a display at a trade show and have a fairly large table to work with, you can choose several large fishbowl containers.

Candy Stores and Other Retail Businesses

From candy stores and gift shops to convenience stores and gas stations, virtually every kind of retail business can use fishbowl containers.

If you manage a:

• Candy store, bakery, yogurt shop, or ice cream parlor, you can use fishbowls to organize and display candy or yogurt or ice cream toppings.
• Convenience store or gas station, you can use these containers to hold candy like gumballs, Jawbreakers, or suckers, or non-edible items like matchbooks, key chains, or small all-in-one pocket tools.
• Gift shop, hobby shop, or bookstore, you can use containers shaped like fishbowls to display small kinds of merchandise like bookmarks, ink stamps, buttons, or travel sewing kits.

Restaurants and Other Food Industry Businesses

Restaurants and other food industry businesses like taverns or “bar and grill” establishments can use fishbowl containers to display food items like after dinner mints or small packets of seasonings and condiments.

They can also situate their fishbowls on each individual dinner table, on the countertop, or near the registers to collect tips from patrons.

Some restaurants hold drawings or raffles for free meals and these restaurants can use fishbowls to collect the business cards of customers who wish to enter.

Amusement Parks and Other Unconventional Businesses

Obviously, amusement parks, theme parks, and carnivals can use fishbowls to hold fish they offer as prizes, but these businesses often use these round plastic containers to collect tickets for rides or games or tokens the patrons have collected for prizes. Parks and carnivals also use clear fishbowls to display candies for sale or additional prize options like miniature figurines or small plush toys.

 Other folks who can use fishbowls include entrepreneurs who attend trade shows, people in the fundraising business, and charities. These containers are great for displaying small merchandise items or free gifts, as well as collecting donations for charitable causes.