title: Laravel5 display table counts
body: <p>I have an admin site and on each page I want to display the counts for each of 5 tables.</p>
  
  <p>I understand how to get the count out of the tables, but I am looking for help as to where to perform the "count" action and a best practice for storing or caching those values to be used in the blade.  There are only 5 so it's not a huge load on the database. </p>