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San Francisco Chocolate Factory Needs Your Help!

Skyrocketing Commercial Rents Are Driving Cool SF Businesses Away

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San Francisco Chocolate Factory Needs Your Help!

San Francisco Chocolate Factory Needs Your Help!

San Francisco Chocolate Factory Needs Your Help!

San Francisco Chocolate Factory Needs Your Help!

San Francisco Chocolate Factory Needs Your Help!

Skyrocketing Commercial Rents Are Driving Cool SF Businesses Away

Skyrocketing Commercial Rents Are Driving Cool SF Businesses Away

Skyrocketing Commercial Rents Are Driving Cool SF Businesses Away

Skyrocketing Commercial Rents Are Driving Cool SF Businesses Away

The San Francisco Chocolate Factory
The San Francisco Chocolate Factory
The San Francisco Chocolate Factory
The San Francisco Chocolate Factory
1 Campaign |
San Francisco, United States
$310 USD 3 backers
0% of $60,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
It’s no secret that San Francisco is changing and “gentrifying” at an alarming rate. Homegrown businesses that San Franciscans hold dear are closing, moving to other neighborhoods or moving out of the City altogether. This has a huge impact on the look of the City as well as the quality of life for its inhabitants. We love our funky home grown businesses and we are not going to let this one go!

 

      

             

 

                                Capitalism and Chocolate Can Co-Exist in San Francisco!

Displaced Chocolate Company That Has Moved Its Headquarters After 15 Years Due to SF’s Sky High Commercial Rents Seeks Support to Stay in San Francisco

San Francisco Chocolate Factory Needs Your Help!

Story

Gentrification in SF has been happening for years. It’s also no secret that Mike Litton, the founder and CEO of The San Francisco Chocolate Factory is a businessman and he is no stranger to capitalism. He welcomes change and the new companies moving into San Francisco. He is a man of commerce after all.

But what do these two things mean? Capitalism and Chocolate? We want SF to have our glorious brand of chocolate but we also want to encourage support from our technology industry and other businesses moving in locally to help keep the SF Chocolate Factory in San Francisco!

What’s the solution?

Buy chocolate and lots of it!

When do you need chocolate?

All the Time!

Health Benefits

Friendship

Love

Dates

Breakups

Friendships

Weddings

Corporate Events

Mothers Day

Father’s Day

Valentines Day

Births

New Jobs

Retirement

Stock up and you will not only have a terrific gift for someone who enjoys chocolate but you will also help a local company stay in San Francisco.

Various associations with chocolate have long been made from cupids, aphrodisiacs, greater mental clarity and recently a Harvard chocolate study has shown that chocolate consumption can prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Don’t forget to buy San Francisco Chocolate!

What –

San Francisco Chocolate Factory offers a wide range of dark, milk, and white chocolates, all made from different blends of cocoa beans with different percentages of cocoa.    

Many of our quality chocolates are sold in exclusive keepsake tins inspired by the iconic images of San Francisco or other major American cities.  Many more are sold in tins designed to appeal to different niche market groups like Wine Lovers, Tea Lovers, Coffee Lovers, and Book Lovers.  Creative is the best word to describe San Francisco Chocolate Factory.  The range of chocolates and the variety of tin designs available ensure there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Do We Want to Have Fun, Eat Chocolate And Make This City The Best It Can Be?

You bet we do!

Eat More Chocolate. And SF Chocolate is asking you to do your duty and buy and eat SF Chocolate.

The SF Chocolate Factory was displaced by high commercial rents due to the latest technology boom and had to relocate from their previous location, which had a retail store and iconic mural on 11th and Folsom (across from the now gone Hamburger Mary’s).

The current location is on Mission and 11th. Although it doesn’t have the same character as the old building and the mural is gone (there’s talk about a SF Chocolate Awning however), the business is still the same, employing a small army of chocolate enthusiasts who sell, ship, market, and manage the business.

Although Mike and the crew like the new space, the cost to the business has suffered somewhat and we are reaching out to the technology community as well as SF Chocolate Fans to help us re-launch the brand in our new location with a Special Event!

About the San Francisco Chocolate Factory 

Most people know when they are eating quality chocolate. Unfortunately, not all chocolates are created equal, and too often, consumers find they have paid a gourmet price for a less than gourmet product.

The San Francisco Chocolate Factory is small, efficient, creative, and dynamic. The company balances yin and yang perfectly…, quality and value are part of the company’s daily focus.  We’re not trying to sell a billion chocolate bars to the mass market, and we’re not trying to sell truffles to the elite.  Our goal is to sell high-quality chocolate in bite-sized pieces, in unique packaging, at affordable prices.  

When we started selling San Francisco Chocolate Factory chocolate tins in San Francisco to visitors, our tins made their way back to cities around the country.  Little by little, a loyal following developed for our products, and our direct sales grew beyond the Bay Area. The growing demand has stretched our resources and we need to increase our capacity to meet demand. San Francisco Chocolate Factory has a wide variety of chocolates and a wide variety of tin designs. Everyone has a different taste, but most people like chocolate.  We have something for everyone. 

We work with the Grammy-winning band, Train, to produce and sell “Save Me, San Francisco Chocolate” worldwide. Train has so many hit songs in the charts, they’re almost too many to count.  So Train knows about winners, and we’re flattered that they chose The San Francisco Chocolate Factory to work with. We also produce custom label tins for nonprofit organizations like PBS, SPCA, National Parks, and Family House.

With this crowdfunding campaign, our goal is to raise at least $60,000 to help relaunch our company in our new location. Show your support in any amount that is feasible to you and tell your friends.

Thank you for helping the San Francisco Chocolate Factory spread the love of chocolate!

 

         

Most people know when they are eating quality chocolate. Unfortunately, not all chocolates are created equal, and too often, consumers find they have paid a gourmet price for a less than gourmet product.

 

San Francisco Chocolate Factory offers gourmet quality chocolate in bite sized discs (which make it easy to share).  As a bonus, the product is packed in small, handy, reusable and recyclable tins.  Interestingly, a small amount of high quality chocolate is more  satisfying than a larger amount of lower quality product.  So the small tins with bite-sized chocolate discs are perfect for quality consumption, a little bit at a time.

 

           

San Francisco Chocolate Factory provides gourmet quality chocolate at an affordable price AND in a keepsake tin.  Only the finest quality cocoa beans are used in the production of San Francisco Chocolate Factory chocolates, imported from three different continents, selected for their consistently fine flavor.  San Francisco Chocolate Factory chocolate is made from decades-old recipes, utilizing modern technology and processing.  Blending a tradition of quality manufacturing with operational economy produces a perfect product at a perfect price point.

 

           

Mike started his career with an international commodity trading company. He later worked for Bank America World Trade and Pepsi World Trade. After living in the Mideast and Europe, Mike became inspired to use his entrepreneurial nature and strong work ethic to start the San Francisco Chocolate Factory.

Sumner is an experienced sales director in the world of chocolate and sweets, having worked at Hershey and Harry & David. Today, Summer uses his experience at the San Francisco Chocolate Factory as our Sales Director, where he manages a national network of brokers and key accounts.

Perry keeps the San Francisco Chocolate Factory organized as bookkeeper and Accounting Manager. Perry enjoys keeping the San Francisco Chocolate Factory operations running as smooth as our delicious chocolates.

Brian is the San Francisco Chocolate Factory office manager and maestro of Customer Service.  Brian grew up in New Orleans and is a true southern gentleman, always willing to help coworkers and clients with a friendly smile.

Katrina was born and raised in Northern Ireland with a calm, friendly, no-nonsense way of getting things done.  Katrina is our Senior Salesperson. Fast-paced and goal oriented, Katrina handles sales with the outstanding professionalism.

Christian is our Logistics Manager, managing the movement of chocolate, raw materials, and finished goods like he would manage a ballet- flawlessly.

Sunny is our Shipping manager, putting everything together and making sure it gets shipped and delivered to the right place at the right time.  We’d be lost if Sunny wasn’t a perfectionist.

Thank you for helping the San Francisco Chocolate Factory spread the love of chocolate!

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Become our friend!

$5 USD
Become a friend of San Francisco Chocolate Factory and you will receive news and information about chocolate and our campaign.
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November 2016
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For The Love of Chocolate

$30 USD
3 iconic San Francisco design tins of our chocolate. These tins are no longer sold to the public.
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December 2016
2 out of 100 of claimed

Double The Love

$60 USD
8 tins of our chocolates customized with your name or design.
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December 2016
0 out of 50 of claimed
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Sweet San Francisco

$120 USD
20 assorted San Francisco landmark design tins of our chocolates.
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December 2016
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"Save Me, San Francisco"

$250 USD
48 “ Save Me, San Francisco” tins of our chocolates. These tins are specially designed by the Grammy-winning band Train.
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December 2016
1 out of 50 of claimed

Customized Chocolates

$500 USD
60 tins of our chocolates customized with your name or design.
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December 2016
0 out of 100 of claimed

You & The SF Chocolate Factory

$1,000 USD
A private factory tour for two.
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December 2016
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Mini Vacation in San Francisco

$2,500 USD
A private factory tour for two. 2 nights of accommodations in San Francisco and dinner with the president of the San Francisco Chocolate Factory, Mike Litton.
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December 2016
0 out of 2 of claimed

For The Chocoholic

$5,000 USD
$10,000 credit towards any products on the San Francisco Chocolate Factory website, or towards custom label tins. Valid for 12 months.
Estimated Shipping
November 2016
0 claimed

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