Last Day.. kind of.

Today was my last day at Chocodiem. Well, the last day of ISP at least. Starting this upcoming week, JP has hired me as an employee (yay!!)
My assignment for this weekend is to read from the book "Business Plans for Dummies" and work on some stuff JP wanted me to think about. I worked on a display case today for four windows in order to get the name out about Chocodiem. I created fake chocolate flowers that look just like the real ones but won't melt on the display case as the sun hits in. I'm going to work more on the display case this week and then we will order the shelves from Bed, Bath, and Beyond later this week.
Katie and I also worked on some advertisement stuff for bringing attention to the Naked Truffle.

JP, thank you so much for allowing me to spend these last four weeks with you and Chocodiem. Working with you has been such a pleasure and I have learned so much. I cannot wait to continue to work with you as the business grows. 

Chocolate bars

Two customers came in who bought the chocolate feather bars. One was a wedding planner of a place called "opulent events." Talked to her for a while, she was so interesting to speak with.
After talking to JP, we started to think about expanding more into the events space. Storefront is great, but it seems like a lot of our focus should shift on events-- communions, weddings, sweet 16s. These would allow quantity orders that require less "guess work" in advance as to what a customer might want.

Painting, Chocodiem Classes

The yellow looks great.
The second display case is coming in today. The second one will be on the opposite side of the store and filled with macaroons. I tried the mango macaroon which was interesting because it had actual mango chunks in it. I liked the mint one more though.

JP also is thinking of adding in a 'dipping station' -- a fondue station where we could hold events such as wine and chocolate pairings nights or birthday parties, etc. I spent the afternoon by starting to  look into things we will need for this (individual microwavable dipping bowls, etc)

I wish I had more time to help JP plan the classes- I would have loved to help start this. It will be a long time before we can actually execute on this too.

Painting today

Painting and Moving things around.  The store is a mess.

Weighing and Packaging

2 ounce chocolate bags. So delicious.

Chocolate Comets

JP told me about a problem he was having. He had made some chocolate flowers that were made with chocolate balls underneath as opposed to a stem underneath. Unfortunately, because our temper machine is broken, the flowers were falling apart. After brainstorming with JP, I came up with the idea to break off the top 'flower' part and sell the bottom parts seperately. They were completely presentable, and JP and I decided to sell them as chocolate commets.

With the abundance of chocolate 'pieces' that we had from the flowers, we put them together in bags and sold them as is. I think we brainstormed a great solution to this problem!

[Pictures] Display Case is looking great!!