Standard commands in Toolbar template

Is there an easy way to use the toolbar.Create() and toolbar.Save() builders in the toolbar template.

I want to add a dropdown for filtering while maintaining the default buttons.

I see no way to get toolbar.Create() to send me it's rendered text to add to the template??

Basically I want to duplicate something like this demo http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/toolbar-template but still have the standard add/save buttons in the toolbar as well.