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Building the Cavasa team
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Finding the Right People Is Harder Than It Looks: The Cavasa Team-Building Reality

Building a small food brand requires finding people who can make the product, sell it,...
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Cavasa flavour range – why more flavours don't mean more profit
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More Flavours Don't Mean More Profits: What We've Learned About Range Size

The instinct when building a chocolate brand is to add more — more flavours, more...
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Cavasa at a food expo
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Why Some Expos Fail — And What That Costs a Brand Like Ours

Not every expo is worth doing. We've learned this the hard way — through low...
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Indian woman chef in an apron at a clean kitchen counter
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Why a Blank Slate Makes a Better Chocolatier

The conventional wisdom is that experience is always better than inexperience. In our kitchen, we've...
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Strawberry versus yuzu custard chocolate
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We Can't Decide Between Yuzu Custard and Strawberry Custard. So We're Asking You.

Our next chocolate is going to be a custard ganache. We know that much. What...
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Cavasa 90% dark Ganache de Luxe
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The Batch We Almost Threw Away That Became Our Best Seller

At 11pm, the night before a delivery, we noticed the surface of our 90% dark...
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Handmade Cavasa chocolates – the problem with scaling
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The Problem with Scaling Handmade Things

Every small food brand is told the same thing: you need to scale. But scaling...
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Cavasa stall at a food expo
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What Expo Season Teaches You About Your Own Product

You can spend months making something in a kitchen and think you understand it. Then...
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A chocolatier at work in the Cavasa kitchen
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What a Chocolatier Actually Does in a Day

Most people imagine a chocolatier's day involves a lot of eating chocolate. Some of it...
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Cavasa chocolates – how we decide a recipe is ready
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How We Decide When a Recipe Is Ready

There is no formula for knowing when a new Cavasa chocolate is finished. Here's the...
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Selling chocolate in India's summer heat – Cavasa blog
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What It's Like to Sell Chocolate in India's Summer

Selling handmade chocolate in India during summer is an exercise in logistics, stubbornness, and unreasonable...
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