Systems and apparatuses for providing enhanced management of facilities offering food, beverages, and associated goods and services in a retail environment are disclosed herein. In one embodiment of the invention, a quick-serve restaurant includes multiple above-counter cabinets, multiple below-counter storage bins, and a service bar positioned in front of the cabinets and the storage bins. In this embodiment, the above-counter cabinets hold commercially-recognizable, retail-sale packages of competitively-branded cereals for viewing by customers as they place their orders. The below-counter storage bins contain the competitively-branded cereals displayed in the above-counter cabinets. The service bar is configured for use by employees of the restaurant in preparing food orders that can include combinations of at least two or more of the cereals contained in the storage bins.