We have the following events coming up in September/early October. For more information about any of these events please visit www.thechocolateworks.com/events.htm
September 8th (Saturday): Chocolate Party/Pampered Chef Party
September 27th: Zebulon Chamber of Commerce Business Expo
October 3rd: Chocolate Festival Organized by NC State Women’s Center
October 6th: Capital City Young Marines 5K Family Fun Run
We’ve added a couple of new pages to the website.
A photo gallery has been added at www.thechocolateworks.com/tcwphotogallery.htm
An Events page has been added at www.thechocolateworks.com/events.htm
There is also now a Category titled Chocolate 101 added to the navigation of our main website. There is information about chocolate in general, some fun facts, Recipes and more. So be sure to visit those pages.
I am so pleased to say that the store has been open since August 1st and all is great. We’ve not only had the opportunity to serve many new clients, but we’ve also reconnected with some past clients that we previously lost touch with. And it is a wonderful thing to see old clients find us again.
The store is really starting to come together now. The flooring is in. And the plumber has done his work. We are now just waiting on the plumbing inspection so that we can get in and get everything else done. Then we schedule the FDA inspection of our kitchen. We will be putting the cabinets up on the walls this evening and tomorrow. The base cabinets and countertops are in already. We have also started moving other furniture into the store. We have taken a few pictures but I have not taken them off the camera yet. That will happen this weekend. So watch for pics early next week.
We have scheduled our Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting with the Zebulon and Knightdale Chambers of Commerce. This is going to be a joint ribbon cutting with both chambers at one time.Â
Date: Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Time: 11:30am
Place: 1300A N Arendell Ave., Zebulon, NCÂ 27597
Who’s Invited: Everyone
Feel free to comment if you will be able to attend. Or, you can email me at melodie@thechocolateworks.com if you’d like to attend.
It’s all starting to come together……slowly.
Phone is connected. Will be testing the phone number this weekend before posting it on anything printed or online.
Electricity & other utilities have been connected.
Insurance taken care of.
We have started removing the flooring and getting it ready for the installers. We had to take out the indoor/outdoor carpet in the “kitchen” area so that we could put in vinyl flooring. And this is such a HUGE job even though it is not a huge room. The adhesive under the flooring is really tough to get up. The carpet has already been ripped out. And now, we have the tiring task of scraping up all the adhesive on the concrete floor. It’s going to be a loooooong weekend I’m sure.Â
Today we will be working on removing the adhesive from the floor. And I will also be doing some cleaning in other areas of the store (bathroom, windows, cabinets, etc).
We still need to order our sign.Â
And we are STILL waiting to hear back from the original plumber who was the lowest bidder for the plumbing work. The last plumber was more than 3 times higher than the first plumber.Â
Once the kitchen area is done we can get started on the rest of the work and move all the counters and cabinets into the kitchen.
 I am NOT going to forget my camera today so that I can get some pictures of the progress and post here.Â
It’s official. Our new home is:
1300A N Arendell Ave.
Zebulon, NCÂ 27597
We signed the lease today. We have moved cabinets and countertops in. And next we schedule to have the flooring and plumbing done so that we can start setting up shop. We are headed now to pick up the vinyl for the flooring.Â
Pictures coming soon.
Well, we have finally decided on a location. We have decided to go with Location #2 in Zebulon, NC. Â
 Today we had the plumber out to take a look at what will be necesary to get the sinks installed. And it looks like it is not going to be much work at all and well within our budget.Â
Tomorow we will be going to several flooring places to get prices on flooring and making our selection.Â
We sign the lease on Saturday. And hopefully by next week we will have begun working on the space. We are shooting for an opening date of August 1st or sooner. But by the time the work is done and inspections scheduled and completed I’m sure we’ll be right at August 1st. The building does not need any painting thankfully. So it’s just a matter of having the contractors come in and do the plumbing and flooring.
I will post the address and pictures as soon as the lease is signed and the work begins.
We have been asked by many of our current customers if we would do dessert catering. Well, you will all be happy to know that we will start light dessert catering very soon. This is something that will be added after we have the storefront as we need more kitchen space in order to offer something such as this.Â
We can tell you that it will include some or all of the following:
- Chocolate Dipped Berries (all kinds, seasonal)
- Pretzels
- Chips
- Marshmallows
- Peanut and Pecan Turtlez
- Bon Bonz
- Truffles
- Cookies
- and much more
We will be offering platters for pick up or delivery as well as a serving staff if that is what is needed. These services will be perfect for any wedding, birthday, anniversary or other event or occasion where catering is needed. Prices and product availability will be posted shortly.Â
This was a wonderful event. We had an exhibitor booth in the Knightdale Chamber of Commerce Business Expo last week. There were nearly 100 exhibitors. We had our booth filled with all sorts of chocolate sampling platters for visitors to indulge in. Samples included Chocolate Dipped Strawberries, Chocolate Dipped Potato Chips, Chocolate Dipped Pretzels, Mini Taster Spoons, and we had a chocolate fountain there as well.
The Knightdale Chamber of Commerce did a wonderful job promoting and organizing this event. They had a food court that was just fabulous with food from Rudinos, Chick-Fil-A, Moe’s, Lowe’s Foods, Sweet Tomatoes, Coco Cola, and several others. I don’t know how many visitors there were but they were expecting between 800 and 1000 visitors. I know we stayed busy all day long. And we thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone that visited our booth.
For more information about the Knightdale Chamber of Commerce please be sure to visit www.knightdalechamber.org.
We will be posting pictures of our booth at the Expo shortly.
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