Bowls let you eat nachos from LaVell Edwards Stadium

Bowls let you eat nachos from LaVell Edwards Stadium

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LINDON — It’s a stadium and a bowl.

Created by Lindon residents Matthew Lee and Adam Keys, the Stadium Bowl made its debut at Brigham Young University during last week’s game. Designed with great detail to look like LaVell Edwards Stadium, a small version of the bowl was sold with Dippin’ Dots at the BYU v. Texas game and a larger, nacho-sized bowl will be sold at next Saturday’s game against the University of Utah.

Lee and Keys began playing around with the idea of putting a stadium in the bottom of a candy dish or bowl for a game day party. Their original mockup was made of a design printed on paper and held together with tape.

“Everybody who looked at it was like, ‘that’s a cool idea,’ “ Keys said. “So we started with just the paper one and we realized we wanted something nicer.”

They looked into plastics but didn’t find anyone who could print a food-safe design like theirs.

“We started researching the technology and different processes behind making it, and that’s when we went out and bought the printers and machinery to produce it ourselves,” Keys said. “That’s how we had to go about it since no one else could help us out.”

Lee has worked in printing in the family business and Keys recently graduated from BYU in business. Together, they have sold more than 10,000 Stadium Bowls. Currently, they make each one with some occasional temporary help, though they hope to hire production employees later.

The process begins with a flat sheet of clear plastic, upon which they print the design. They run the plastic through a die cut machine then put the plastic in an oven until the sheet is pliable, then place it upon a custom mold designed for each stadium. Some include handy dipping dishes shaped as a basketball or football attached to the side.

For Lee, the most interesting part of the venture is making something unique for each customer.

“We started with a regular-shaped bowl that slightly resembled the interior of a stadium,” Lee said. “It’s come to the point now where we have a 3D model of a stadium. It was just something new and it was fun to see it happen.”

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