What's new at Lil' Orbits?

Everyone knows that the key to remaining profitable in any business is the all-important returning customer! You can encourage customers to return, and to send their friends, by staying on top of new trends and creating excitement with your operation. Here is one new product that is sure to keep it new and fresh!

This idea has been tested with several operators in the US with excellent results. One large carnival operator (running five 2400 machines) went through 40,000 buckets in two months while they also offered the standard bag of 1 dozen mini donuts for $3.00! They offer these two choices to the buying customer.

(1) Our Standard glassine bag holds about one dozen mini donuts and generally sells for $3.00 per dozen (USD).

(2) When operators present the donut bucket to customers they have been getting from $8.00 to $10.00 per bucket! They set up a sample bucket filled to the brim with fresh mini donuts topped with cinnamon sugar and put it on display. (Note: you don't have to go into details with your customer, but each bucket holds approx. 30 mini donuts (2 1/2 dozen) which would amount to a selling price of $3.00 per dozen by the bag or $4.00 per dozen by the bucket.)

Here's what people are saying about our buckets:

"We had a good reception to the buckets. We sold 50% of them at a cost of $15.00 each."
"Works great! ... our first bucket order is gone ... just ordered 160 more."
"We ran out of buckets! When customers came back for more, they were upset that we didn't have any more buckets. Then, they only bought one bag of dounts. Obviously, we lost $$ sales ... we could have sold a lot more donuts if we had more buckets ready to go."

Another brand new product we are now offering to our customers is the BeaterBlade Pro^®. This innovative, and colorful, attachment will replace the white beater blade that comes standard with our KitchenAid^® mixers. Why are we excited enough about this product to offer it to you?

• The BeaterBlade Pro^® is specially designed to exactly fit your standard tilt-head style mixer
• BeaterBlade^®'s unique design allows it to scrape the bowl as it is running, eliminating the need to stop mixing in order to push excess flour into the mixture.
• BeaterBlade^® also takes care of the mix that can accumulate around the 'dimple' in the bottom of your mixer bowl!
• BeaterBlade^® is easy to use, made in the USA and is UL certified.

In the past few years our Dippin' Donuts program has really started to take off. Operators are selling a dozen donuts with a choice of several icing flavors for an added profit. Even with a successful program running, we still look for ways to enhance or improve wherever we can. One way of doing this is by adding new flavors of icing to our line.

In addition to our popular Vanilla (Product #DD153) and Chocolate (Product #DD154), we have recently added Maple topping (Product #DD158) to our product list. All of our icings are ready-to-use, soft at room temperature and perfect for dipping. The sweet Maple flavor perfectly complements our unsugared cake donuts, and your customers will spread the word!

Give your sales advisor a call and ask for more information on this new product.

Here are some more product lines you can add to your concession business to bring in more customers and more profit!

• Dippin' Donuts, a program started a few years ago, has really started to take off! A once pilot-program, originally developed by our UK distributor, Rodney Binley, is now quickly becoming a popular attraction with operators around the world! Former Operators of the Year, Joe and Janice Hatcher helped make a name for this program with their amazing operation!
• Stainless-Steel has become the material of choice for our cabinets and carts, and we've even stopped painting our vendor carts yellow! You can now get a vendor cart, or one of our portable sink systems in beautiful and durable stainless steel.
• Kiosks are becoming more popular, with their eye-catching stainless steel vendor cart and full oak surround. The 9'x9' setup is easily assembled on-site for a professional and attractive high traffic operation!
• Cling Pricing Signs offer a quick, simple and professional way to post your pricing right on the front of your plex, and right in front of your customers.
• Lil' Orbits.net, our newest website, offers our complete color catalog online in an easy-to-use format. Launched in August of 2006, lilorbits.net is just another exciting development from Lil' Orbits, Inc.!