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Giving un-wrapped chocolates at a trade show

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  • 29-09-2014 3:54pm
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    BnB
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    Hi

    I am going to a B2B Trade Show in the UK. I was planning to have a plate of Artisian Chocolates from a local producer at my stand. Chocolate is nothing to do with my own business but just as a way of drawing people over and as a conversation piece.

    Would there be a problem with the fact that the chocolates are uncovered ? Someone here in the office said today that is is now considered bad practice (or possibly even not allowed) to give out unwrapped or uncovered food ?


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    pedroeibar1
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    Most supermarkets have food samples on display/offer. I do not touch them – doors, trolleys, meat counter, who knows where the greedy paws before you have been? Very unhygienic. Artisan or other, they will not be a ‘stand’ conversation piece as it is difficult to discuss anything with a person whose mouth is stuffed with chocolate! Leave them wrapped and they will be taken by the fistful.
    Better to have a competition for something and get people to enter by dropping a business card into a bowl – at least that way you can build up a book of leads.


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    pedronomix
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    It really depends who you want to eat them!! If they are existing customers, then a plate with a glass/plastic cover is fine. If it is walk by unknown punters, Pedroeibar is dead right. Unwrapped is intimate, otherwise gross!!


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    Mr Clonfadda
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    wrap the chocolate with your business card. serves two jobs then


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    pedronomix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 997 ✭✭✭pedronomix


    Mr Clonfadda wrote: »
    wrap the chocolate with your business card. serves two jobs then

    Ahh The old chocolate business card trick!!


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