Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is a retail franchisor and manufacturer of premium confections. The Company is based in the charming old-west town of Durango located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, in southwestern Colorado. From its 53,000 square foot plant, the Company offers a franchise business opportunity in premium retail selling handcrafted caramel apples and classic confections and chocolates. It manufactures an extensive line of premium chocolate candies and other confectionery products to supply its many franchise locations, delivered fresh by its fleet of refrigerated trucks. The chocolate factory produces approximately 300 chocolate candies and other confectionery products, using proprietary recipes developed primarily by its master candy maker. These products include many varieties of clusters, caramels, creams, meltaways, truffles and molded chocolates. Individual stores prepare a variety of caramel and candy apples, fudge, chocolate items and confections in full view of the customer using traditional cooking utensils such as copper kettles on gas-fired stoves and marble slab cooling tables.
External link for Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
265 Turner Drive
Durango, CO 81303, US
Great meetings with Steven Elias, Travis Whipple, and the Fort Lewis College teams this month. We’re excited to continue growing our partnership with FLC!
It is always a treat (literally & figuratively) getting to visit the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory headquarters, right here in Durango, CO. I’m looking forward to continuing the conversation on partnership opportunities with Fort Lewis College. Thank you, Andy Black, for the great tour! We’re proud to call you an alum!
It’s hard to believe, but the holiday season is just around the corner! Let us help you plan your business gifts this year. Our stores have a variety of custom and local gift options, for every budget, and are excited to work with you to create something unique, using your favorite treats, to sweeten the season. You can find a list of all locations here: https://lnkd.in/g4FHQZwA If you’re not near a store, you can visit our website and connect with our Customer Service Team to curate the perfect gift options for your business thank yous this year. ‘Tis the season!
Business gifting and business cards just became easier with Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Giving a company Christmas gift this year? We can help you customize the perfect wrap with your logo to fit beautifully on our box chocolates. Tired of boring business cards? Want to leave a lasting impression? Check out these custom wraps on our four piece caramels that I just had made for my own small business. We can design something like this for your business with your own logo. Email me at: rmcfsacramento@gmail.com so I can help.
We had the great opportunity to participate in the AICC, The Independent Packaging Association Student Packaging Design Competition this year. University students from around the nation submitted designs for a free standing corrugated display for our brand and retail stores. We were absolutely blown away by the entries! The innovation and design detail that were in so many of these projects was more than we expected and it was an incredibly competitive field when it came time to select winners for structure, graphics, and best in show. These students really took time to understand our brand and our functional needs and presented some top-class displays. Congratulations to this Cal Poly Team that took home top honors and to all the other student teams who partipicated. Thank you for letting us be a part of this impressive event.
AICC Student Packaging Design Competition winners from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) standing with their Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory train at #supercorrexpo
Our own Justin Bashein, Director of R&D, attended Candy School at UW-Madison this summer - an great opportunity to learn more on the science of candy from industry experts. Congratulations Justin and this year's class, we're excited to see what you dream up next!
To make malted milk balls, you drizzle melted chocolate over candy and tumble ingredients together so the pieces get coated. Then, you fire up a shop vacuum. The vacuum provides cool air to help the chocolate set as creamy layers are added to create the sweet treat, said Rich Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hartel runs the university’s Candy School — also known as the Confectionery Technology Course — which started in 1963 and has become so popular that it has a waitlist of people who want to attend. “The course is … certainly the only comprehensive one of its kind that does lab stuff like this, that covers all of candy,” Hartel said. Each year, about 34 employees from major candy companies come to Babcock Hall for two weeks to learn the science of candy. They practice making an array of treats, including chocolate and jelly beans. This year’s participants came from Russell Stover Chocolates, Ferrara, Mars Wrigley, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and other businesses, where they work in research and development, quality control and other similar jobs.
We are proud to share that American Heritage Railways Inc is investing in the future of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Many things have changed about our business over the years, but since Frank put that first store on Main Avenue next to the train, we've always waved to riders as they pass through town. This collaboration, and a renewed, local-based leadership team reaffirm our commitment to this community. We’re as passionate as ever about our heritage and about providing a best-in-class franchise business opportunity and premium confections. Partnering with AHR aligns perfectly with our core values of quality products and experiences and a culture of family.