Pascal Caffet
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Pastry
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confectioner
Confectionery
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and chocolate
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maker.
Pascal Caffet has five shops in France and four shops in Japan.
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- 2009: Best chocolate maker in France
- 2003: Gold Medal Pastry & Chocolate World Championship (Champion du Monde). Lyon, France
- Silver & Bronze medal Chocolate World Championship. Las Vegas, USA - 2002 & 2004
- 1996: Gold medal Pastry & Chocolate World Championship (Champion du Monde). Milano, Italy
- 1989: Best French Pastry Confectioner (Meilleur Ouvrier de France). France
Company history
- 1979: Bernard Caffet (Pascal’s father) created the “Palais du chocolat” in Troyes, first shop in France.
- 1986: Pascal and Florence Caffet start in the family business, after the death of Bernard Caffet
- 1989: Pascal becomes “Meilleur Ouvrier de France Pâtissier” Best French Pastry Confectionner. He was only 27 years old, he was the youngest “Meilleur Ouvrier de France ».
- 1990: Pascal and Florence decide to open a bigger shop, because the first one was to small to present all the products, pastries and chocolates.
- 1996: Pascal becomes for the first time World Champion (chocolate and pastry).
- 2004: Opening of the second shop in Troyes, close to the new factory.
- 2004: The first shop Pascal Caffet, made in Japan, opens.
- 2007: The third shop opens in Troyes, and the fourth shop opens in Japan.
- 2008: Pascal and Florence decide to start the first shop in Paris in the very “chic” Quartier Saint-Germain.
- 2009: Le “club des Croqueurs de chocolats”, gives to Pascal Caffet an award for the very high quality of his chocolates.