And residents get to sample the chocolate too.
Hvalsø Ældrecenter, a nursing home in Lejre, Denmark, is home to its very own world-famous chocolatier, according to Vice.
Award-winning 47-year-old Mikkel Friis-Holm supplies Michelin-starred chefs and restaurants around the world – but his headquarters have been based at the back of the nursing home since 2014.
The chocolatier was offered a deal to rent the home’s vacant industrial kitchen from the town’s housing board. The kitchen had supplied all of the local nursing homes until the catering was outsourced.
Dessert always on the menu
The chocolates often end up on the home’s dessert cart, with some residents known to come looking for treats on their respective birthdays.
The business has also benefited the town with the factory now employing six workers and producing around 100,000 chocolate bars a year.
Sadly it means that they will need to pack up and move to a bigger premises soon.
In the meantime, the residents are enjoying the benefits.
“They’re probably getting more chocolate cake here than elsewhere,” Friis-Holm said. “But we’ve gotta be good neighbours. That’s the most important thing, because we’re literally under the same roof.”
