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Everydayer: America's 5 Best Chocolate Factory Tours. MapQuest Discover. Updated September 22, 2016 at 5:13 PM. box of chocolates. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
See's Candy Shops, Inc., doing business as See's Candies, is an American manufacturer and distributor of candy, particularly chocolates.It was founded by Charles See, his wife Florence, and his mother Mary in Los Angeles, California in 1921.
A portion of the factory interior is open to the public for free self-guided tours, [40] with windows providing a view of the chocolate-making process. [41] [42] The facility also includes a retail store for the company's products, [43] and a chocolate and wine-tasting room. [44] As of 2011, the factory received 700,000 visitors a year. [11] [12]
The Guittard Chocolate Company is an American-based chocolate maker which produces couverture chocolate, using original formulas and traditional French methods. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California. It is the oldest continuously family-owned chocolate company in the United States, having been family ...
Public tours were once operated in the Pennsylvania and California factories, which ended in Pennsylvania in 1973 as soon as Hershey's Chocolate World opened, [61] and later in California following the September 11, 2001, attacks, due to security concerns. [59] On September 18, 2012, Hershey opened a new and expanded West Hershey plant.
Actor Kirsty Paterson was billed as a ‘notorious Scottish Oompa Loompa’, and will take part in a Q&A session at the LA event.
By the time he was 20, Ghirardelli had sailed to Uruguay with his wife to work in a chocolate and coffee business. A year later, Ghirardelli moved to Lima, Peru, and opened a confectionery store. In 1847, nine years later, James Lick (Ghirardelli's neighbor) moved to San Francisco, California, with 600 lb (270 kg) of Ghirardelli's chocolate ...
The company moved in 1965 to Industrial Blvd., in Hayward, California. [1] In 1972 the Annabelle Candy Company purchased the Golden Nugget Company. [1] In 1978, the Annabelle Candy Company acquired the Cardinet Candy Company and added several new candy bars to its line of products. [3]