Non-Rails Tours
Chocolate Dream Tour
The order of this tour has NOT been set - yet! It might be like this:
This tour will stop at Graeter’s Ice Cream plant where you will be able to tour the ice cream making plant and then stop out front in Graeter’s retail shop where many flavors of chocolate ice cream are available. Now at Graeter's Ice Cream: Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream and Strawberry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream.
Next stop,Anthony-Thomas Candy where you will be able to tour the candy making plant. You walk along Anthony-Thomas’s comfortable, glass-enclosed suspended "Cat-Walk" and observe eight chocolate making lines producing 25,000 pounds of chocolates per shift. Anthony-Thomas’s experienced tour guides explain each process step-by-step, from kitchens to the final packaging. View interesting sights such as Anthony-Thomas’s huge copper kettles where the centers for chocolate are created, and unique silver wrapped pipes that carry liquid chocolate throughout the factory. The tour finishes in Anthony-Thomas’s beautiful 2,500 square-foot retail chocolate shoppe.
The last stop on the Chocolate Dream Tour is Krema Nut Company. The Krema Nut Company was established in 1898 and it is one of the oldest peanut makers still manufacturing in the United States. Watch them make their All-Natural Peanut Butter the same way they have made it of over 100 years. Their secret: fresh roasted whole #1 Fancy Spanish Peanuts. The best part of the tour is the fabulous aroma! The tour concludes in their gourmet nut and gift store, where you can sample delicious jumbo cashews and nut butters.
After this tour, the participants will have nuts, chocolate and ice cream. Everything needed for a delicious Sundae.
Other Tours
Other Non-Rail Tours are planned and as details are firmed up - they will be listed here.
