When she was a schoolgirl, chocolate-loving Zara Narracott’s friends joked that she would one day become the next Willy Wonka. They also said she was the girl most likely to give Cadbury a run for its money.
At the time, Zara didn’t have any grand plans to open a chocolate factory and follow in the footsteps of either Wonka or Cadbury. It wasn’t until she finished university that the penny finally dropped and she realised running a chocolate shop might not be such a bad idea after all.
“It was evidently more obvious to others than it was to me,” says Zara, who has run Zara’s Chocolate on North Street, Southville, since 2013. “I’ve always been a complete chocoholic and chocolate obsessed but I don’t think it ever really occurred to me as career prospect when I was at school.
