Some Like It Dark

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"It's not like the Clinton years," says Chera Tramontin, co-owner of Kilwin's with her mother Karen Piehutkoski, "but we're holding steady, and last year we showed an increase." Though they added ice cream in the nineties and caramel apples earlier this decade, chocolates still make up 80 percent of sales.

"Chocolate is a feel-good drug," says Tramontin. "It's one of the last thing people take out of their life, so why change?"   

[Originally published in December, 2009.]