"annead" wrote.

> Hi all...
>
> I'm seriously considering opening a Chocolate Cafe -similar to
> Starbucks - with a variety of hot and cold chocolate drinks with
> pastries and some candy bar sales, etc. I haven't really seen anything
> like this where I live (DC area) but know of several in Europe. What do
> you think? Thanks for your comments!!
>
> Anne

From what I have seen in San Francisco the concept has limited
appeal. Combine the Chocolate Cafe with a Starbuckoid coffee shop
and you might survive.

Good luck. The Chocolat shops were sold to a cult and
became a mail order business. I don't know what happened to them
after that.
The Chocolate Faery in the Castro went out of business and/or
moved to another city in the Pacific Northwest.
Two other quality chocolate shops in the city have gone down
the tubes.
A cafe featuring mainly chocolate dishes failed to prosper.

Good chocolate is hard to sell to a nation raised on Hershey
bars.
Scharfen-Berger still has a chocolate cafe attached to their
manufactury in Berkeley. Giradelli(sic) (Eagle brand) has a couple
of chocolate shops selling their products in the tourist parts
of San Francisco.

later
bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com)

--
bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.