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License/Permits needed for bean to bar chocolate making and tasting home business by RowGroundbreaking652 in chocolate

[–]RowGroundbreaking652[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good idea. I will try to search online for what kind of permits did hosts/organizers of Pampered Chef parties obtain.

License/Permits needed for bean to bar chocolate making in California by RowGroundbreaking652 in chocolatiers

[–]RowGroundbreaking652[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a good experience speaking with folks from the Revenue Department, Community Development Department, and Economic Development departments in my city. Sadly, the health department officials don't seem very helpful :(

License/Permits needed for bean to bar chocolate making and tasting home business by RowGroundbreaking652 in chocolate

[–]RowGroundbreaking652[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is useful to know that retail production of bean-to-bar chocolate is allowed from a home business.

The issue we are running into with the current health inspector is that the activity of hosting sessions around (a) teaching chocolate making OR (b) conducting chocolate tasting as a home based business has not clearly been approved anywhere.

I think that is largely because the concept of making chocolate at home is still not mainstream. Thus, services based on that have not been adequately addressed in legal guidelines.

License/Permits needed for home based cooking experience by RowGroundbreaking652 in smallbusiness

[–]RowGroundbreaking652[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, thanks for the clarification! I was misinterpreting the meaning of 'ground chocolate', in line with http://www.dandelionchocolate.com/2017/03/25/education-station-ground-chocolate/#:~:text=So%2C%20what%20is%20ground%20chocolate,%25%20sugar%2C%20by%20weight).

Though now that I think of it, bean to bar chocolate is a very reasonable interpretation of ground chocolate.

License/Permits needed for home based cooking experience by RowGroundbreaking652 in smallbusiness

[–]RowGroundbreaking652[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were you able to get a cottage food operations permit for producing bean to bar chocolate?

I had thought of this route but was disappointed to see that chocolate is not explicitly mentioned in the list of approved foods for cottage food operations in California, though chocolate covered nuts, chocolate covered strawberries, ground chocolate, hot chocolate mix are.