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A TOUCH OF THEATRE

What happens when a stylish woman from the fruit export industry goes for coffee? She buys the restaurant, obviously! Perhaps not everyone, but that’s exactly what Wilma Basson did in 2005 when she bought her first restaurant. The process took a week, after which the barista taught her to make cappuccino on her first day; she had no experience.

But because she combines her belief that a person is never too old to learn with great passion, her Chocolat bistro

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