San Jose Magazine May-June 2000, page 36, Laura Riley, Dining News “On The Tables”
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Just in time for Mother’s Day, San Jose-based Silicon Valley Confection Company has launched a line of decadent chocolate truffles available at area shops and via the company’s website, www.SVC2.com. SVC2 is the brainchild of business partners Rich Yacco and Al Abrahams, self-described chocolate lovers who co-founded this unique Valley startup almost two years ago. Abrahams is the former director of corporate support at KTEH-TV channel 54, while Yacco has worked as a media and graphics designer.
Like tech pioneers, the two created a business plan, raised funds through private investors, and have introduced their product line to some favorable analyst reviews. The truffles were all the rave earlier this year at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. Knudsen’s Candy Company in Hayward manufactures and distributes the European-style dark chocolate ganache confections as per SVC2’s specifications.
The company’s first product was introduced, appropriately enough, for the Valley’s sweet tooths late last year. It was a Y2K bug, a solid 1.9-ounce bar of milk chocolate shaped like a bug with “Y2K” written on it. The company’s first client to scoop up the bug was San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation. The chocolate bug has also been put on display at the year-long Millennium exhibit at London’s Museum of Science.
Abrahams says they will continue to sell the bug all year, and their next product will be even more techie. It’s a chocolate motherboard that will contain eight RAM chocolate chips and one chocolate CPU in a box shaped like a laptop. Abrahams says a sugar-free chocolate, perfect for diabetics, is also on the product line. Abrahams says SVC2’s candy is not as bitter as most dark chocolate. “And I should know, because I like chocolate.”