This week’s customer spotlight is on long-time customer, Earnie Glazener. When Earnie and his wife, Melanie, aren’t tasting chocolate, they’re experimenting in the kitchen with any number of foods. One of their latest tests has been jams of all kinds. They’ve provided me with multiple batches of their jam experiments, complete with labels and a […]
Today we are excited to announce the beginning of our new loyalty rewards program. Before we share the chocolaty rewards with you, we would like to thank everyone who participated in our first loyalty promotion as we got used to our new software and gave you a peek into how it might work in the […]
Editor’s Note: Below is the letter we sent in MARCH to members of our Chocolate of the Month World Tour Club (CMWT). We post the letter a month after our club selection ships, so if you purchase the CMWT, you will not receive the same bars that are featured here. March 2018 Chocolate of the […]
This is the first post in our new series, “Customer Spotlight”. There are so many wonderful customers who are part of our community that we thought it would be fun to tell their stories, and to let them choose their favorite bars for happy hour. Long-time customer Adam kicks off our series. Adam first found […]
If you’ve visited Chocolopolis in the past six years, you’ve probably met Anna Daniell. Anna has been with Chocolopolis since the spring of 2012, making her our longest-serving employee. She has held almost every role we have to offer from Sales Associate to Store Manager to Operations Manager to Bookkeeper. I still remember the day […]
In January I was at the semi-annual meeting of the Fine Chocolate Industry Association in San Francisco when I was approached by Jeremy Karp, the Owner and Chocolatier of Batch PDX. He proffered a box of five of his hand-crafted truffles and suggested I enjoy them later. When I got back to my airbnb that […]
Calling all arm-chair pastry chefs and chocolate bakers. After a seven-year hiatus we’ve brought back The Serious Chocolate Contest! We are accepting entries for the 2nd Serious Chocolate Contest to be held at Chocolopolis on Saturday, March 24th. Create a delicious chocolate dessert or confection in one of two categories using Taza Chocolate. On Saturday, […]
We get a lot of deliveries at Chocolopolis, most of them large boxes filled with chocolate. When the UPS driver arrived last week there was a small package mixed in with the many large boxes. Not recognizing it, I immediately looked at the return address and thought, “What are we expecting from the publisher John […]
Please join me in welcoming Elyse Whitney as my Assistant Chocophile. Many of you may recognize Elyse, who has been with Chocolopolis for three years. She was one of our talented pastry chefs, running our production kitchen and producing our award-winning truffles. I’m very excited to have Elyse in her new role! Elyse comes to […]
Join The Chocolate Squad’s Ecuador Trip April 7-14 Trip Details I recently had the pleasure of getting to know three very interesting women of chocolate at the Fine Chocolate Industry Association meeting in San Francisco. I was strolling through the “Gallery Showcase” in a hotel ballroom, and I came across a table for Conexión Chocolate. […]
