The Pot What is possible

What is Possible (The Pot)
The Washing Machine

Our Client, a smaller Chocolatier, had a great success. The owners' creativity produced a new product that sold at 100 times anything they had made before. A wonderful problem - How to multiply volume dramatically, quickly and with no loss of their distinct quality.

What was possible and their creativity had been demonstrated, but in production the problems seemed stone age. We lost 3 of 45 days of production because the chocolate molds were not cleaned and dried for the next day.

One person said "Why not clean them in bunches instead of all at once?" A good idea.
The next person said "Why not buy a few extra and rotate them?" Another good idea.
Melvin said "I have been asking for a washing machine for a year!"

Can we afford this?
Dishwasher - $4,635 plus installation

vs. the sum of these costs

2 people washing molds at $9 per hour x 2 for 48 hours per week each $864 per week
PLUS profit on 10% added capacity $910 per day or $4,665 per week
PLUS an occasional Profit on one day's lost production $6,000 per day

We bought the washing machine and put a brass plaque on it dubbing it "Melvin"

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