The Reynolds have personally brought TCPC pizza and wings all around the world as gifts when traveling on business for their high tech company.

They said one time in a castle in England they had gifted their hosts with TCPC pizza and wings, which are packaged to look like regular pizza and wings. “They weren’t real appreciative thinking we were typical yanks bringing in some cold pizza,” Joan said.

Later they made it a point to write to tell the Reynolds how surprised and delighted they were with the delicious gift, and also, how quaint that it was made in a small American village.

Vincent lived in Marcellus up on Slate Hill Road for about 15 years but has since moved up Fairhaven up on Lake Ontario. Joan hales from the south end of Skaneateles Lake.

On the job at TCPC
“I come to work to de-stress,” said Kerrie Simms, “It’s the chocolate. Chocolate that is tempered,
rather than wax based, so you have to keep an eye on the temperatures, which will vary from
dark to milk to white.”

Samantha Stillwell, a senior at Marcellus High School, and Olivia Stevenson, home on break from
Potsdam, prefer working in the salesroom mainly because they don’t want to don the hairnets that
are required to work in the kitchen.
“We try to avoid the hairnets,” Olivia said.

They polish up the front of the house making it shine, merchandise the products, serve up gelato and wait on customers. They were even on their hands and knees the night before the shoot scrubbing the pumpkin colored floor.
“We are like Cinderellas,” Olivia said.

The two patiently waited all day to get an opportunity to be on camera, but also to help out. Finally, at the last minute they were asked to ring a customer up so it could be caught on camera. They handled it like seasoned pros taking direction well, with only a couple of takes.

“These kids are absolutely wonderful,” Susan McGrath of Marcellus said of her co-workers.

Michelle Tracy came in from LaFayette to pinch-hit for her mom, who is Mary the bookkeeper. Mary had done a lot of the prep work for this day, but was unable to be there because of a surgery her husband had. He’s doing fine, but mom didn’t want to take any chances, so she sent in Michelle, who was a very camera-ready young lady.

TCPC’s Barbara High from Camillus demonstrated how to make wings for “Unwrapped.” She first dumped and sorted the potato chips and then spread each good one with creamy peanut butter. Co-worker Simms then dipped each into the smooth chocolate.

Ryan and Chris Novak both showed up to do a little taste test for the camera. Ryan works at TCPC. When the bright lights flipped on, the producers joked, “Where were you on the night of...”

Chris said they had lived in Belgium at one time and the TCPC chocolate reminded him of Belgian chocolate.

“It’s a great concept to think of chocolate in a new way,” Chris said. “And it’sHolidays, such as Christmas, Valentine’s and Easter, the staff works around the clock, and the salesroom floor is filled with boxes to be shipped. But this doesn’t dampen anyone’s spirits one bit, because, after all, chocolate is good for you.

He said everyone has favorites. He has seen “Unwrapped,” but his real favorite his “Emeril.”
Joan and Vincent Reynolds, of Reynolds’ Tech, are a mother and son operating an international family business.

They have followed Hanyak’s store from its inception, originally meeting at a craft show in 1989-90, even before Hanyak’s original location on South Street in Marcellus. They were shopping for an unusual gift for clients, and Chocolate Pizza has been a hit ever since.
“These pizzas have been all over the world, youknow,” Joan said.

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