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Jennifer Dean has had enough of her spring. Dean, owner of Chocolate Hangover, a candy maker and retailer quartered in a 400-square-foot shop off of downtown Grapevine’s popular Main Street strip, backed off of a push to open a second shop in downtown Arlington after the city insisted she put in a grease trap (she said she planned to slice and package, but not produce, chocolate at the shop.) She also got boxed out of hard-to-find openings for a new shop in downtown Grapevine.
Undeterred, Dean — a Realtor with two MBAs who discovered and bought the 8-year-old shop six years ago after a client gave her gifts from the store — remains on the hunt for a larger space facing Main; her store faces away from the street. She also uses an off-site kitchen to make the chocolates. Dean sat down (rather, stood up in her small quarters) for an interview with the Report.
What: Chocolate maker and retailer…