Largest chocolate fountain

You have to look closely and only then you realize that it is actually flowing.

I am talking about the largest chocolate fountain in the world.

You will find this at Jean-Philippe Patisserie which is situated inside the Bellagio hotel. 

It stands 26 feet tall from ceiling to the tank below and circulates 4409 lbs of melted chocolate at the rate of 120 quarts per minute. 

You can see the Guinness book certificate on the right.

The  three  colours you see are dark, milk and white chocolate which is pumped by six pumps. These pumps take the chocolate back up through 2 inch diameter SS pipes. To maintain the viscosity, temperature is controlled at 49 deg Celsius (120 F). To maintain the temperature these pipes are sheathed in another 3 inch pipe through which hot oil passes. All these are hidden within the walls of the shop.

25 suspended glass vessels make it look more exquisite. Engineering planning and design took two years.

There are other pastries on display and sale. Clicked a few of them : 

The Croissant too was looking yummy.

 And this dress is made completely of chocolate:

You are surrounded with chocolate, and that makes you wonder, where to start.

4 employees to 220 employees

I read a review of a hotel and it went like this:

We all need a reason to wake up in the morning and Financier-patisserie is mine.

I was surprised to find that the Yelp site had 173 reviews on the Financier-patisserie eating place.

We are talking about Mr Bedoucha who made this happen.

It takes a lot of courage to resettle in a different country especially when one takes up a new job, with no idea about who or how the clientele is going to be. But that is exactly what Mr  Eric Bedoucha did. A pastry chef, he shifted from France to New York and created Financier Patisserie, a famous and successful French pastry company in New York city.

Now for the last 30 years he is in the United States. In his own words “but during the first twenty years I did not feel like I had truly settled here. It took me a good 20 years to understand Americans and to make them trust me, because they are very open and very friendly, but to gain their confidence, it takes time. However once you have gained it, then it’s good for life”

 His greatest challenge was to guess what the . . . . .  read on