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   gpwestmoreland | Jan 04, 2001 07:33am | #1

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   Misha,

   I built one of these for a gourmet coffee shop several years ago. The owner at first wanted the set up you describe: to be able to display and dispense the numerous varieties of beans from the same glass front bins.
   After discussing all the pros and cons with the owner, he decided against this arrangement. He wanted to keep all the display bins full to the top (so it would appear to customers they were all fresh), but didn't want to have to keep the dispensing bins all full, because some flavors of beans sell more quickly than others, and the slow movers would lose freshness.

   I ended up building him a large cabinet, with an attached, slanted, glass faced front for the display beans. Each brand was displayed behind glass in a partitioned compartment about 12"h X 5"w X 2"d. I hinged the bottom so he could unlatch the top to have access to the beans. (He wanted to be able to change them if they began to look moldy.)
   On the employees side of the cabinet, I just built a bunch of wide, deep drawers for dispensing the beans. I think he ended up just keeping them in the paper bags in the drawers, scooping right out of the bags.

   Hope this helps some. GPW