Central New York’s premier chocolate maker is making a lot of noise these days with that national media. Marcellus, New York is an unlikely setting to discover one of the most amazing gourmet chocolate businesses in the country. After all, it’s a quiet Upstate New York hamlet with one stop-light and history dating back to the late 1700’s. But it’s also home to, Chocolate Pizza Company, an American chocolatier that for nearly 3 decades has been creating unique, delicious and impressive chocolate specialties. Just as amazing as the chocolate is the story behind its owner, Ryan Novak, a 29-year-old CEO who started as a dishwasher when he was 15. Novak bought the business in 2010 when he was a senior at Syracuse University and it was a small-town chocolate shop but since then it has exploded onto the national stage with features in major media and customers on 6 continents. Recently, Novak and Chocolate Pizza Company have been featured in Forbes magazine, People magazine, Chief Executive magazine, Money Inc. magazine as well as internationally on Discovery Channel India and Food Network Canada.
Located 15 minutes from Syracuse and 5 minutes from Skaneateles Lake on NY Route 175, the region’s premier chocolate maker, Chocolate Pizza Company, has a new 10,000 square foot facility is a convenient stop for tourists enjoying the region’s Finger Lakes, wine trails, autumn leaves, Dicken’s Christmas celebrations and more. The building offers a retail store with over 100 handcrafted chocolate treats and viewing window into the production area and parking that easily accommodates buses. In 2016, Centerstate CEO, the area’s premier business development association, awarded Chocolate Pizza Company “Business of the Year” honors for companies under 50 employees.
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Chocolate Pizza® and Peanut Butter Wings® are Chocolate Pizza Company’s signature specialties. Chocolate Pizza blends rich milk or dark chocolate with homemade English toffee, poured into pizza pans and topped with a wide variety of nuts or candy favorites. Custom, holiday or all-occasion choices come sealed and served in a custom pizza box and start at $16.95. Proof that this area’s most unique chocolate maker is making a big-time splash with its signature product can be found in its recent order for 31,000 Chocolate Pizzas from BJ’s Warehouse Club that rolled it out in all 215 stores in 16 states. Peanut Butter Wings are crisp, rippled potato chips covered in creamy peanut butter and drenched in our best milk or dark chocolate and starting at $10.95. They are a salty-sweet masterpiece that together with Chocolate Pizza create the most unique “pizza & wings” combo. One of the things we enjoy most at Chocolate Pizza Company is listening to people who are tasting the Peanut Butter Wings for the first time. Recently, the hosts at talk radio WRCH in Hartford, Connecticut did a live on-air taste of the Wings. Their reaction is priceless – listen here:
Being Central New York’s premier chocolate maker means representing the region at important venues like the area’s official state Welcome Center at Destiny USA. This brand new location in one of the state’s high-traffic attractions introduces visitors and tourists from all over the world to what makes this part of the country special and featured throughout the Central New York Welcome Center is Chocolate Pizza Company. Visitors can find a selection of Chocolate Pizzas and Slices, Peanut Butter Wings, Caramel and Nut Drumsticks, S’more treats and more. With Chocolate Pizza Company products front-and-center in the primary store for tourists, means visitors to Central New York will find their trip a sweet experience.
