Packed the week you collect it
Gift tins & corporate orders
Three sizes, that’s it
Ten tins is where a corporate order starts. The largest run we've done in one go was a hundred and forty, for a law firm on Grant Street.
Plain steel tins with a paper band we print at the shop. No cellophane, no plastic insert, no ribbon unless you want one. The candy is laid in paper cups by hand, which is slower and looks better.
You choose the size and roughly what goes in. Most people say something like “no coconut, heavy on the caramels” and leave the rest to us. That's the ideal brief, honestly.
Twenty tins or more takes 10% off the tin price. Above fifty we'll work it out with you, since at that point it's a week of Peter's mornings.
How a corporate order goes
Four things happen, usually over about ten days. Nothing here needs a portal or a login.
You tell us the count and date
Email or phone, either is fine. How many tins, what size, when you need them in hand, anything to avoid. If the deadline is hard, say so in the first message rather than the third.
We send a written quote
One page, plain email. Assortment, weights, total, collection date. Over twenty tins we ask for a third up front, because at that point we're buying chocolate specifically for you.
We cook and pack in batches
Caramels first, since they keep best, then the dipped pieces closer to the date. Big orders get split across three or four mornings so nothing waits around for the rest.
You collect from the shop
Everything boxed by tens with a packing slip on top. Bring a car with a back seat. Forty tins is bulkier than people imagine, and we've watched someone try a Miata.
Lead times, honestly
Under ten tins we can usually do in two days. Ten to thirty, give us a week. Fifty and up, two weeks, and more if it's December.
November and December are the crunch. Last year we stopped taking new corporate orders on the 6th of December, which upset a few people who'd left it late, and we'll probably have to do the same again. If your tins are for a holiday party, talk to us in October and it's a non-event.
We don't ship. Not out of principle, just that a caramel that has spent three days in a hot truck isn't the thing you paid for. Everything is collected here.
The practical bits
Paying
Card or check at the counter. We can invoice a company if your accounts team needs one, terms of fourteen days from collection.
Changes
Quantity and assortment can change until we start cooking. After that the batch exists whether or not the order still wants it.
Allergens
One kitchen, with nuts and dairy and wheat in it. We'll list what's in each piece for you to pass on, but nothing here is allergen free.
Keeping them
Cool shelf, not the fridge. Sealed tins are good for about three weeks, which is longer than any of them last in an office.
Forty tins, all packed, all labelled, ready at nine on the dot. I have had worse experiences ordering paper.
Jim, office manager
Write with the count and the date, or call and ask for Marina. Quotes come back the same day, or the next one if it is a cooking morning.