So I'm now with Jennifer Small, who's the marketing director, and Jennifer, most people will know this organization from the South Bend Chocolate Cafe.

Whether it's the downtown location or one of your other locations.

But so this is obviously a big part of the Dinosaur Museum and this general area.

So.

So tell me what what you got going on here?

Well, this is very much like if you've been in one of our cafes, it's very much like that.

In theory, we have a lot of the same products and everything spread out a little bit different.

We have a wider menu for breakfast and lunch.

We have just some fun features with our largest wall of caramel corn and so many other little gift items we ship worldwide.

If you would like to send a gift to someone.

This is.

You can come here to just get your morning coffee, get treats and stuff.

Or we do have our chocolate museum, which is right behind the cafe here.

It starts through a big Mayan temple that you walk through.

It gives you some history of chocolate.

Then the whole process of how it's made and pulled from the cacao beans, and how it's processed all the way into making the chocolate that we know.

Is there an exhibit about how why it makes women so happy?

There is not, but there should be.

I mean, that's a part of the museum.

No it's not.

It could be.

We should probably look at that.

It should be.

Yeah.

And have the, like, five phases of the facial expression.

Like start the level.

Yes.

The more you know or how you can get out of certain things.

And so again obviously chocolate.

The South Bend Chocolate Factory and cafe is a big, you know, part of everything that's in here.

How far reaching is are these products.

Because obviously we know them is here in South Bend.

But are they shipped all over the country?

All over the world.

They are shipped all over the country.

We do have a customer internationally as well.

Yeah, we have quite a few wholesale customers that you can travel around the United States and you're pretty your odds are pretty high you're going to see us in a gift shop.

Yeah.

So yeah, we we traveled to all of our shows all around the, the year selling to our customers and to the wholesalers.

So.

And you mentioned the museum.

So tell me a little bit more about that.

Like we're out here right now because there's like about 50 kids in there right now.

And we didn't want to get them all on camera.

But tell me a little bit about the museum and what's going on.

Yes, the museum is very cool.

You start the tour through a Mayan temple, and we'll have a storyteller in there that walks you through the history.

There's a lot to look at, a lot to read, kind of learn about the whole process and then just some history.

There's a lot of old posters and advertising and all types of good things, and then it dumps you into the factory.

You take a full factory tour and then the back end of the tour.

There's a timeline of the history of chocolate.

It's very historical tours.

There's a lot to learn, and then you get some samples along the way, and it dumps you out with that and start with it.

Start with that next time, and then it dumps you into the outlet store, which dumps you.

I like the idea of just being thrown out into it, into it right at the end of the tour, which has a lot of our seconds, which are still amazing.

They just don't look as pretty, but no one cares.

So no, I know you mentioned here that you got the cafe for breakfast.

You like that, but you also have the public house which we're going to go to next.

So you do.

Yeah.

So there's right across the parking lot is another full service restaurant.

A little bit different menu than here.

Yeah.

But it's good you know.

Plus that is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

We're gonna head over there now.