Zimt Chocolates founder Emma Smith started out by making chocolates in her home kitchen (fun fact: in their respective home kitchens is where basically every food manufacturer on the planet started).
After getting the thumbs up from some critical taste buds, it was time to sell in retail stores. Except it’s illegal to do this from a home kitchen in Canada- the Canadian Food Inspection Agency would be enraged.
So. She began to manufacture out of a church kitchen, then a vegan cupcake shop, then a vegan yogurt factory, then in a chocolate factory, then got last minute renovicted, then in a room in a warehouse, and simultaneously, still worked with the chocolate factory, and also rented a table at a commercial kitchen. Now Zimt proudly operates their own proper chocolate factory and continues to expand.
Owned In: British Columbia
Made In Vancouver, BC:
- Chocolate Bars
- Bar
- Candy Bars
- Macaroons
- Caramel
- Drinking Chocolate Mix
- Baking Chocolate
