A few days before we hit the road to One Spark 2014, we wrote about the SweetSpot sugar dispenser.  What we wrote then is even more true after we had a chance to see it in person, “One of the more practical One Spark Creator Projects that we have come across is the SweetSpot sugar dispenser. As someone who drinks a ton of coffee, probably too much, I can’t believe that there is not one of these in every Starbucks.” The SweetSpot was truly one of the most practical devices on display at the festival.

SweetSpot is a premium automatic sugar dispenser that serves a perfect packet of sugar or sweetener. Collectively, when we decide to forgo a sugar packet and instead use the SweetSpot dispenser, we dramatically reduce our environmental footprint. So go ahead, push our buttons!¹

The way that Brandon Heller, the founder and creator of the SweetSpot, described the dispenser to us is spot on:

It’s like a Keurig K-cup, but for sugar.

While you don’t really think about how much cost the packaging adds on to sugar and other sweeteners, it quickly adds up. Allie did a quick search and found some pretty remarkable results in our preview of the SweetSpot:

A quick search for sugar packets in bulk turned up some interesting results. There may be other sources, but WEBstaurantStore.com was the first result in a Google search, so it will be used here. WEBstaurantStore.com sells a case of 1200 5 gram packets of Sugar in The Raw for $27.49.3 Conversely, the same website sells a 25 lb. bag of Granulated Pure Sugar for $11.99, amounting to around 2268 5 gram packs.4 The economic benefit is pretty obvious.

We had a chance to speak with Heller during One Spark. He told us a bit more about the dispenser, and how it works:

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