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Says Fine: 'The black sesame is going to be our new token weird flavor' (Photos courtesy of Haute Chocolate) From her basement kitchen in her mother-in-law’s Fort Greene row house, Beryl Fine is making a name for herself in Brooklyn’s chocolate industry with her sultry sweets brand,. The California native and art- school dropout has found a niche within the borough’s celebrated artisanal-chocolate scene by using a branding tactic her largely male competitors have not capitalized on: specifically targeting female consumers. “I’m trying to position my product as a luxury gift item,” says Fine as she zooms around her workspace (a rare basement space with a in Brooklyn, she was told by regulators), “I want it to be sacred.” With an aesthetic she describes as “a cross between zines and French noir-film poster art,” Fine goes about imbuing this sense of sacredness by wrapping her product in gold foil and a range of hedonistic photographs of women–all of which she takes herself. The Salted Rosemary bar ($8) is a top-seller with a suitably sultry product description: “Delicate skin. A predator smile. She can give or take life with just one breath; such is her control” Photography is what originally brought Fine to New York City, but after failing to break into the prohibitive field, she decided to embrace her entrepreneurial instincts and turn the medicinal-marijuana chocolates she’d been making for friends into a legitimate, legal operation. After watching tons of YouTube videos on and taking three classes at Manhattan’s, she had herself a business.
The first retailer of her chocolate was, a Williamsburg “sexy shop” which holds workshops and sells art and jewelry in addition to adult toys. In order to get on store shelves, Fine bemoans, she had to make the packaging a bit more PG and less DIY than the photocopied images she’d been previously using. The refinements have paid off, she reports. While the packaging is often what gets attention, Fine delivers adventurous flavors within, ranging from salted-rosemary and toasted-almond bars to cinnamon-chipotle hot chocolate. “It’s been the most successful thing I’ve done in my adult life.
I’m very happy with the way things are going,” she says. “I’m always hovering around a seven or an eight out of ten,” which not every entrepreneur can say. The business celebrated its three-year anniversary in May and is on track to grow around 11% in revenues this year, matching 2017’s growth. The Pandora’s Box sampler offers 18 pieces for $35 To accommodate the scaling-up process, Fine recently expanded her operation by hiring a contract packager (called a co-packer in the industry) on the West Coast to produce some of her product for her, allowing for larger batches of the sweets and freeing up time for Fine to manage the rest of the business. “I make all of the minis, semi-sweet and the hot chocolate by hand here,” she says proudly, but “now I’m not making each fucking chocolate bar by hand, which is delightful.” “A lot of people, they have these big machines that do it,” she goes on as she points a digital-thermometer gun at the single-flavor batch of chocolates she’s currently whipping up in a bowl.
It’s hard to imagine where she’d fit a big machine in the endearing but tight space of her subterranean chocolate laboratory. Her sink, which constituted the most expensive, regulation-heavy part of getting a commercial license, she tells me, is in a separate part of the basement. Working with a co-packer is, “a process, and it’s also a relationship,” says Fine, the California company she found has been a good fit.
She initially contacted co-packers on the East Coast, but they tended to prefer working with higher-volume brands. Fine, originally a photographer by vocation, brings a certain mystique to her brand With some of the production out of her hands, Fine can now focus more energy on creating new flavors, like her black-sesame bar. Fine thinks the salted-rosemary bar is Haute Chocolate’s most daring current flavor and the new one, to be introduced next month, will surpass it.
“The black sesame is going to be our new token weird flavor.” While some of Haute Chocolate’s bars offer relatively familiar chocolate tastes–coconut, espresso, semi-sweet–others are more surprising: hibiscus, spiced chai, lady grey (a playful take on Earl Grey tea). The mix is intentional, since Fine says her goal is to go for “what’s familiar and also what’s bold.” It’s the texture, not the flavor, though, which Fine believes keeps customers coming back. “It’s not smooth,” she says, “the sugar isn’t ground down.” Many customers compare it to Mexican chocolate. Despite the plentiful competition in the borough, with Brooklyn boasting of larger size than Haute Chocolate’s operation, Fine says her colleagues have played nice. “I think that people are very competitive, so it’s hard for some to be friendly,” she admits, but she hasn’t had any negative experiences.
One fellow Brooklyn chocolatier even offered free advice in her weed-chocolate days, which served her well in Haute Chocolate’s earliest stages. As for a brick-and mortar-future, Fine has no plans at the moment, although she does have some ideas. “If I do a storefront, I want there to be a cafe and no WiFi–an escape,” Fine said. What she does have coming up are appearances at the conference on July 21 and the trade show next month.
Meanwhile, she’s looking for a distributor to open up foreign markets. Haute Chocolate can also be, or found at a in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Honeywell’s UniSim® Design Suite is an intuitive process modeling software that helps engineers create steady-state and dynamic models for plant design, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, business planning, and asset management. The process of simulation is under transformation. Triggered by technological advancements and new customer requirements, process simulation models, which have traditionally been desktop analytics and decision-making tools, are now leveraged into new high-value solutions such as “connected” operational monitoring. Find out more about how Honeywell delivers value to customers, with the UniSim Design’s new platform and refining offering. What is it UniSim Design Suite is a powerful process modeling software that provides steady state and dynamic process simulation in an integrated environment. It provides powerful tools to help engineers evolve process optimization designs with lower project risks, before committing to capital expenditures. Major use cases in process modeling using UniSim Design Suite include: – Process flowheet development – Use case scenarios tool to optimize designs against business criteria – Equipment rating in a wide range of operating conditions – Evaluating the effect of feed changes, upsets and alternate operations on process safety, reliability and profitability – Accurately size and select the appropriate material for blowdown systems – Monitoring equipment performance against operational targets.
How Does It Work? UniSim Design offers the following features: – Easy-to-use Windows Environment: UniSim Design provides a clear and concise graphical representation of the process flowsheets, including productivity features such as cut, copy, paste, auto connection and large cases to sub-flowsheets. – Comprehensive Thermodynamics and Unit Operation Models: UniSim Design supports process modeling of distillation, reaction, heat transfer, rotation of equipment and logical operations in both steady-state and dynamic environments. These models are proven to deliver quality, realistic results and handle various situations such as vessel emptying or overflowing and reverse flow. – Active X (OLE Automation) Compliance: It allows the integration of user-generated unit operations, proprietary reaction kinetic expressions and specialized property packages and interfaces easily with programs such as Microsoft® Excel® and Visual Basic® What Problems Does It Solve? With UniSim Design, users achieve: – Optimized designs (lower CAPEX and / or OPEX), resulting from the accuracy of prediction, embedded industry standards, and open architecture to link to third party tools and client’s IP – Increased efficiency (productivity and efficiency) by up to 30%, through the availability of productivity tools, implementation of best practices and attention to workflows.
– Lower total cost of ownership over a project or plant life lifecycle, with the creation, re-use, and updating of the same models on a single software platform. – Faster startups and smoother operation for plant assets, resulting in earlier profits, through tested and improved operational procedures – Increased safety of operation resulting from safety system design and HAZOP studies – Delivery of high-value services and operational knowledge transfer by process technology licensors, as they can develop and protect their IPs with the UniSim Design simulation platform. Installation guide 1. Download the software first and then unzip. Run the Setup.exe file to install the software you need. Copy and replace the contents of the Crack folder at the software installation location (by default, C: Program Files). The software is fully activated and can be used without any restrictions.
Hints: – This application is completely tested. – If you install the software on a 64-bit operating system, you must copy the contents of the Crack folder to the C: Program Files (x86) path. – It is recommended to use Windows XP SP3 or Windows 7. – All files are compressed as far as possible and can be repaired by WinRAR.