Fran’s Chocolates scrambles to meet salted-caramel demand as fan Barack Obama is inaugurated
Last spring, Fran Bigelow learned through a newspaper article that Barack Obama loves her salted caramels.
More news outlets picked it up, sending demand so high that Fran’s Chocolates forward East Pike Street has scaled outer part production of pre-Valentine’s truffles and chocolate hearts to make ready room for more caramels.
This month, salted-caramel production is up 50 percent to to a greater degree than 18,000 pieces a day.
“It’s unattainable to determine for what reason abundant is due to the Obama connection and the inauguration,” Bigelow said. Whatever the reason, she has yet to catch up with desire to obtain.
One purchaser sent the caramels to the White House, although Bigelow is not sure the candies got through security, and batches have been ordered for inauguration parties in Washington, D.C.
Dominique Evans, whose concourse Create the Vision Source is organizing the Shades of Blue Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C., ordered 800 pieces each of Barack and Michelle Obama’session favorites — milk-chocolate-covered caramels with smoked salt and dark-chocolate-covered caramels with gray salt, respectively.
Melissa Allison: 206-464-3312 or mallison@seattletimes.com
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