Madison Chocolate Co. to open second location | Business News

Megan Hile is getting an additional daring stage with her Madison Chocolate Co.

She began making sweets out of her dwelling kitchen area in 2010 and started industrial manufacturing 2012 by leasing professional kitchen room at RP Pasta. In 2014, she moved generation to the FEED Kitchens on Madison’s North Side to make her candies that she transported to clients close to the region.

So when she opened a tiny shop at the corner of Monroe and Glenway streets in 2017, she believed she would have enough area for decades to appear.

But with enterprise booming, retail behaviors modifying and source chain issues unpredictable, Hile is as soon as all over again growing.

The chocolateier has declared that she strategies to open a second locale this slide in the Heritage Square Shopping Heart at the corner of Whitney Way and Odana Highway.

Her quaint 1,100-sq.-foot Monroe Avenue locale will continue being open and get some breathing area whilst the new 3,200-square-foot shop will provide as a major creation facility for her gluten-no cost caramels and truffles and gluten free bakery products that can consist of brownies, cookies, bars and croissants. The room will also incorporate enough storage, far more room for shipping out packages, a 24-seat cafe and a generate-through, since the setting up is the previous property of an Involved Lender branch.

“Of course people today really don’t like to get out of their autos any more and some people have mobility problems or they have children with them and never want to haul them into a store. There’s a lot of good reasons people will use a push-via,” Hile claimed. “We were searching all about but this one just appeared suitable.”

The new shop will be in the identical procuring centre as the Seafood Heart and Nonno’s Ristorante Italiano, is throughout the street from Hy-Vee, next door to West Facet Swim Club and there are new apartments a block absent on Odana Street with yet another 465 models less than design on the web page of the former Westgate Mall along Whitney Way.

Hile said she began actively pursuing a 2nd locale in 2021 and it will likely suggest adding 4 to 8 staff members to her staff members of 14. She no for a longer time will be compelled to use a hallway in her Monroe Avenue keep as a storage place.

“We are just so restricted in this article. We considered we would have all the place in the earth for so extensive,” Hile explained. “It’s likely to be fun. I’m hoping to make (the new site) a wonderful neighborhood house.”