Jael and Dan Rattigan bought an abandoned cacao farm in Costa Rica in 2004 and opened Bread and Chocolate, a café and dessert shop in Puerto Viejo de Limon, on the Caribbean coast. They started playing with chocolate recipes the next year. In 2006, they sold Bread and Chocolate, moved to Asheville, NC and established French Broad Chocolates. In 2008, they opened the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, which quickly grew in popularity. By 2011, they traveled to Peru to begin sourcing beans and began construction on a chocolate factory in Asheville.
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