Abstract

A cracker dispenser for dispensing individual crackers in a sanitary manner such as at public cooking events and at wine and cheese tasting events. The cracker dispenser includes a plastic housing for receiving a plurality of stacked crackers from a standard size roll of crackers. The housing is of elongate rectangular shape with a horizontal lower wall of a rectangular shape slightly larger than the individual crackers. Three upstanding walls include a rear wall and opposing side walls which extend from the lower wall to retain the plurality of crackers into a cracker receiving interior chamber defined by the housing in a stacked position. A movable door in the form of a sliding door or a latching hinged door is connected to the housing to selectively cover a cracker roll receiving opening formed at the front of the housing between the two side walls to admit crackers from the roll thereof and closing to cover the cracker roll receiving opening. A finger receiving slot through the lower wall extends forwardly from adjacent the rear wall to a cracker dispensing opening formed between a lower edge of the movable door and the lower wall. The housing mounts to a vertical surface using a pair of mounting holes or hangs using a wire hanger. A lowermost cracker may be removed from the inner chamber by engaging the lowermost cracker by finger and sliding outwardly from said interior chamber. A next lowermost cracker then becomes the lowermost cracker for subsequent removal.