Yanco BM-4003 Birmingham Melamine 3" x 1" Sauce Dish 2 oz, Gray Interior and Black Exterior — Case of 72 (6 dz)

Two ounces in a three-inch round is a dipping portion: soy, aioli, a spoon of dressing set beside a plated salad. It is a small piece with one job, and it ships six dozen to the carton for the obvious reason that nobody orders a single one.

Three-inch sauce dish

One inch deep, with sides straight enough that a dip does not slide out when the server lifts the whole setting at once. The gray interior and black outer wall match the rounds and ovals in the pattern, so a sauce dish sitting beside a dinner round looks intentional rather than borrowed from somewhere else. Melamine is the right material here, because small items are the ones that get knocked about in a bus tub.

Sold by the full case. Case of 72 (6 dz)