Today was dedicated to the business side of the bakery. And what was on the agenda for today? Restocking white chocolate, lite cocoa (aka milk chocolate), and dark cocoa. The chocolate is contained in a sealed plastic bag within a box. Each box contains only one type of chocolate, and each box is fifty pounds—that’s a lot of chocolate. I’m not complaining. I just want to show exactly how much chocolate they store; they probably have well over 1,000 pounds of chocolate. They package the chocolate in three ways: one pound, five pounds, and ten pounds. You use a scooper to put the chocolate into the bag and a scale to make sure it is the correct weight. If it is too light, you add some more chocolate. If it is too heavy, you remove some chocolate with gloves. To seal the bag, you twist the bag right on top of the chocolate and run the bag through a machine that seals it with tape. I was surprised that they sell a bag of ten pounds. I thought they would rarely ever get someone who would buy that much. But, right after we put the ten pound bags into the store, a man purchases two of them—I guess it isn’t too weird after all.
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