“Soap dispensers get crud around them”
Old toothbrush, a little elbow grease, a sprinkle of BKF, and just a few minutes takes care of that lickety-split. 
Don’t forget a hole for a sprayer.
Sprayer? What’s that? Oh you mean the thing that comes off the faucet? 
True. That’s a good route to go.
So what do you do with your dish and hand soap, @BunsenBurner?
I use unisoap - the one that can be used for both hands and dishes (Palmolive?), and I dilute it 1:4 with water in the foaming soap dispenser. It sits on the counter (no sealing or caulking around it is needed!), and when it gets too old for my tastes, I buy a new one. But that’s just my personal taste. I also dislike built-in furniture and over-the-top ornate woodwork.
Well, since my beloved sink is not an undermount, there is no need for another hole in the counter to accommodate the hand soap dispenser… There is only one big hole.
The dish soap lives in the cabinet under the sink.
I hate that thing. I had in in my first kitchen for 20 years. In redoing the kitchen a few years ago, I got rid of it and got a sprayer. I have the most holes, total of 5, one for hot water, one for cold, one for sprayer, one for soap dispenser, and the last one for filtered water. It’s crowded.
My hansgroh kitchen faucet…the sprayer is NOT separate. It is a pull out spigot.
Actually, my old Moen was the same way. No separate hole in the counters for a sprayer.
I had my sink and faucet replaced and the choices were limited to what would fit the existing granite cut outs. Although I loved our previous single bowl sinks, we have the same problem as CT1417 with the new Kohler. It’s a stainless steel sink, about 35X21 with a deep apron front, that I learned too late doesn’t have sufficient slope to drain well.
Fortunately, the new faucet has an attached sprayer and does a pretty good job of clearing debris. It’s a Waterstone traditional gantry style. http://www.waterstoneco.com/catalog/product/waterstone/Traditional-Gantry-Faucet-12and34-Articulated-Spout-4pc-Suite/5387
Dh replaced the soap dispenser’s bottle with a Never-MT so he doesn’t have to refill a little bottle frequently but can just use an XL soap bottle that lasts for many months.
I’d love to remodel our kitchen, but if I ever do the only things I’ll keep will be the gantry faucet and the Never-MT. Very light color quartz counters are my dream - for some day.
Cool looking faucet, @silpat!
I also believe in the fewer holes in counter the better. My Grohe has the sprayer in it. It stopped working last year and Grohe sent me a new nozzle part.
I just keep dish soap in a very pretty dispenser on the counter. I really dislike built in ones.
Speaking of faucets - I am doing complete gut on both bathrooms and I’m looking at one that has a touchless feature. Anyone have one of those and do you like it? I plan on all 3 faucets being the same so don’t want to make a big expensive blunder.
If the residential touchless faucets work as poorly as the commercial ones, no thank you.
It also has a touch feature.
I’m very conflicted because I hate water spots! I’m going with brushed stainless which shouldn’t show as badly as chrome but no water spots would be even better.
@doschicos , thanks. People seem to either love it or hate it, and they’re not shy of saying when they hate it (the word they usually use to describe it is “weird.”)
I only have one hole in my countertop for the faucet, and it has the sprayer integrated. I love the minimalist look of it-literally it’s like one stalk that pokes straight up from the granite. Easy to clean, no nooks and crannies.
The idea of five faucet thingies sticking up from the counter would make me nuts. But I’m also one of those people who will go find a slotted screwdriver to make sure all the screws in a light plate face the same direction.