Chocolaterie

A chocolaterie is a type of business which both manufactures chocolate confections and sells them, at the same location.

The word is of French origin, and shops named as such are common in France and Belgium.

The term is also used to designate larger chocolate production companies, such as Chocolaterie Guylian, many of which started as smaller shops.

This type of store operates in other countries, such as the US, Canada, the UK and Germany,[1] sometimes using the French term.

Until the discovery of the New World, the cacao tree was unknown to Europeans.