Friday, September 20, 2013

All is well in the land of Chox. Your opinion please?

Well, Portland, fall is here. The sprinkling has begun. The cool fresh breezes are blowing. And we are back at it, slinging raw chocolate like nobody's business. Well, actually, like our business.

Speaking of business, this making healthy chocolate has turned out to be a pretty busy one, as businesses go! We are happy to have so much demand for our product and we are carefully considering many possible options of how to address this growth. 

As you may be aware, both of us Choxatarians come from both culinary and artistic backgrounds, so the business aspect has been a learn-as-we-go kind of process, and it has been very overwhelming. We are proud of what we have accomplished at Rox Chox, and we enjoy our chocolate work very much, but we need to better balance our creative lives with our business lives. We are seeking solutions! Do YOU have the answer??

Our intention for the next few months is to do some intensive learning in the subject of business growth, and also to reach out and have more conversations about different ways of dealing with growth or structuring businesses. We believe in the power of collective thought and decision making, and we would like to invite you to share with us your ideas for Rox Chox.

What would you like to see more of? 
Ex: Rox Chox in more stores / more flavors / different packaging / more availability of bulk Rox Chox in stores / more farmer's markets / ... 

Is there a way that you would like to support Rox Chox in our growth?

What ideas do you have in any aspect of business growth that could be helpful to us?

What examples have you seen or experienced of businesses in our position?

Drop us a line at roxchoxpdx@gmail.com or just share your idea, any idea, right here! Thanks for engaging with us in more ways than taste :) We're all in this together, right? And we all want our Rox Chox, that's for sure!

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Chef River back in action!

We are back in production, and to celebrate, here's a rare peek into the Raw Lab.  You can see River at work (listening to the Cocteau Twins) cutting the Chox by hand and see how we weigh each piece, one at a time. Call that hand-crafted? Could only get closer if the gloves came off.