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I know this is a late response, but it looks like they are gone. Their website no longer exists and I don't find any info on them anywhere.

Checking in with the Honor Snack crowd! How is everyone doing? A lot is going on, but we've managed to ride the worst of the chaos. Gas prices and product price increases gave us quite the challenge the last year, but we seem to have weathered the storm. We took a price increase at the beginning of the year (back in February) and It actually went well. With everything going up in price, at the pump, in the grocery store, etc. we felt it was the opportune time to implement a price increase, going to $1.50. Our customers seemed to understand and adapted well. Volume is back on the rise and my sales staff have been putting on new accounts like crazy. I hope ALL of you fared just as well! Let me know how you're doing and what helped you through. Take care my friends!

Unfortunately Max, unless you are purchasing a LARGE quantity of snack trays, $6/tray is probably going-rate for them. The other thing you need to consider is that shipping them to the UK is going to be a CRAZY delivery charge. Unless you can find someone over there that provides them for you, I don't know if it will be realistic to expect them at a 'cheaper' cost. If you ARE looking for a huge quantity of them (I'm talking like 2000+), you may want to look into having your own box design manufactured of there. We have our own boxes made right here and you are looking at a one-time design/die fee. But again, that is ONLY if you are looking for thousands of trays. Best of luck to you!

I did some research on Candy that Cares a few years ago and found them to be way overpriced and frankly, believe they are a scam. I read too many posts of folks wanting to get into Honor Snacks and find someone to put accounts on for them. Here is the issue with locators: they don't give a rat's behind if the account is good or not, or whether it sticks or not. You CAN NOT do honor snack sales by phone....PERIOD. You need to get out and place accounts yourself, or if you are uncomfortable selling, hire someone to sell for your company (but now you're looking at an employee and opening up a whole new can of worms). If you can't talk to customers, you'll never be successful at this business. Just my 2 cents

Hey Bryan! (and everyone else) Glad to hear you are battling back. We are running well and working on building our account base back up. Price increases and fuel are the biggest headaches, but we are still pluggin' along. I am sure most of you all are increasing to $1.50 on your boxes. If you haven't yet, don't wait. Costs are only going to continue to climb and implementing price increases are much easier while your customers can see why (inflation in everything else makes it easier for your customer to understand). I hope everyone is hangin' in there!

This is a late response, but we are still hanging in there. STRUGGLING, but still hanging in there. Loss of accounts and lower volume is the biggest hurdle. And we're in MICHIGAN! (Our governor is an idiot, but that's a whole story in itself). Most small business seems to be back at it, but it's the chain businesses (banks, chain salons, insurance co, etc.) that seem to have the corporate edicts that won't either allow snacks and coffee, or won't let us in the building. Other than that, most people are ready to get back to some sort of normalcy. Things NEED to open up and everyone needs to get back to work. Hope everyone is doing alright.

Several years ago, the government required businesses to have these on file. Most larger companies request them from everyone they do business with to cover their behinds. Most will never use it or even look at it, just keep it on file. As Angry Chris stated, there is no harm in providing this; it's just your business name and address and Tax Id # (FEIN). All common knowledge info. We get requests all the time. We have one filled out on hand to email on request.

Hey Bryan! Glad to see you are still alive and kicking! Hopefully business is picking up in your neck of the woods. We are holding our own. Usage is still down and most of our hair salons wanted to be pulled because they are encouraged to not have coffee, snacks or anything available for their customers/employees (our governor is an idiot). We have been able to sell and put on new accounts, believe it or not, but we strictly try to target rural areas or heavy industrial. They seem to be much more receptive. I hope all is going well for you, my friend! I look forward to seeing your updates, and remember to Keep On Keeping ON!

If you are small enough that you are still purchasing your pop from Sam's Club, then "negotiating" prices with the bottlers is not going to happen. They do have "slightly" better price brackets for increased volume and rebate programs that you could possibly qualify to participate, but unless you are doing SUBSTANTIAL volume, like a Canteen franchise (several pallets of product weekly), you will not be negotiating anything. They will tell you what your price is and that will be that. Don't expect some great pricing either.

We are hanging in there. Hoping the money from the SBA loans gets here soon. Boxes have been left at the locations to preserve the account. We did not want to remove the boxes and risk losing the account when we went to place them back in. better to have the box there and resume service than trying to replace the account. I'm sure we will have a TON of outdates, but we will cross that bridge when we get back. We have plans in place to increase inventory to cover the out-dates, and working with manufacturers for some help. Crazy times!

AngryChris is correct. They are adding "self-employed" individuals to apply for the SBA loans along with allowing "self-employed" to apply for unemployment. I don't know if that is a State issued thing or not, but I am sure self-employed can file for unemployment. As Chris suggests, inquiry with your accountant or your banker. Both have been a HUGE help for me. Best of luck buddy! We WILL get thru this!

Wow! That's AWESOME my friend! I am so glad you are able to continue with your routes and still have great volume. Well Done! We are closed for now. Hoping to bring all my employees back soon to continue moving forward. This is such a crazy time! Best of luck to you, buddy!

I believe that some of the small businesses are "laying off" employees so that they can receive unemployment during this time. I know in Michigan, this will not be counted against the employer (counted toward a business's mod number for unemployment tax), so for small businesses that are shutting down for the virus, they are able to do this for their employees.

Another EXCELLENT week, Bryan! Well Done! I still haven't fond out much on the accounting programs. I will keep looking for you though.

In our region, Body Armor IS a Coke item. They have even added it as a category in our rebate program.