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About Us
After 6 years of research and product development CCBerries first opened on February 4th, 2004.
Who is "CC"? Well.. "CC" is not a persons name, it stands for "Chocolate Covered".
Over the years we've moved from being a local Marietta merchant to a nationwide provider of custom chocolate covered strawberries.
We choose to produce the highest quality product using unapologetically better ingredients, like longstem strawberries and always true rich gourmet chocolate.
As the business changed we did even more research and found out a lot about the industry, we chose to take the road that our competitors have not taken.
We are a small privately owned company but our competitors owned satellite TV companies, cable shopping channels and even a major sports team, and the most obvious thing was that most of our competitors were not using chocolate.
We only dip in gourmet chocolate.
Most of our competitors cut corners by not using gel packs throughout the year or ship using a less expensive planned 2 day delivery service. We want the product to arrive in the best possible condition, so we always use gel packs and only ship so that it should arrive as quickly as possible after it is made. Everyone knows fresher is better.
Always using gel packs results in a better protected shipment and a heavier shipment. Since the cost of overnight shipping is really based on distance and weight our shipping may be a little more expensive than the competitors that cut corners on packaging, gel packs and product quality. It costs a little more to do things right.
Our Promises to You:
1) Our "Milk", "White" and "Dark" chocolate is real gourmet chocolate, meeting FDA guidelines for what is allowed to be called "Chocolate", most of our competitors use a vegetable oil based coating instead of cocoa butter based chocolate and then try to pass it off as chocolate. All of our chocolate is tempered and contains cocoa butter like real chocolate should. A "dip" or "sauce" made by a chocolate manufacture is not the same as real chocolate.
2) We promise never to call black foam "Velvet" or "plush". One of our competitors was caught doing this, we figure that's just not right and when someone starts misrepresenting the product you never know when they'll stop.
3) All our pictures are the real thing. We will never employ a food stylist to put on more toppings just for a pretty picture. We dip all the way to the leaves to protect the berries in transit, why don't our competitors?
4) "Strawberries & Chocolates" (or "Chocolates & Strawberries" or "Chocolate candy") is not the same as "Chocolate Covered Strawberries", some companies are using this variation on thier web sites to get around the rules for false advertising, but then still have their ads show under the search term "chocolate covered strawberries".
5) Gourmet chocolate is not found in tiny chips in the baking section of your local grocery, or little buttons at the craft store. The companies that use real gourmet chocolate are proud of it, will use it in thier ads and on thier web site. Check their ingredients lists, if there is no cocoa butter it is not chocolate, if they don’t have an online ingredients list: what are they hiding?
6) All of our chocolate is tempered chocolate. Real chocolate tastes better than a much less expensive vegetable oil based coating, making a much better product.
7) If you don't see the word "Chocolate" in big letters on a competitor's main web page they are probably using a confectioners coating, but we did see one company actually put "Chocolate" on their page header when the ingredient list showed they didn't use it. Some of the companies who don't use real chocolate in their chocolate covered strawberries are listed here, for the others you can always ask them if their ingredient label has cocoa butter listed in the white, milk and dark chocolate.
8) To see how they fool you click here
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