My story ...   Mirco Della Vecchia is a graduate of the Institute Hotelier Longarone. I started working at the age of 13 years as a confectioner in summer and winter in the school. I knew immediately that the cafe would be my future. So in 1996 I started a series of inter-regional competitions dedicated to the gentle art, quickly gaining numerous awards.

These are my results:

1997 1st Place Contest Festival d'Autore MIG (International Ice Cream) in Longarone

1998 1st place Author MIG (International Ice Cream) in Longarone

1998 2nd place in Competition Chocolate SIGEP in Rimini

1998 2nd place National Championships

1998 Bronze Medal Olympic Team in Luxembourg Cooking

1998 Olympics individual silver medal cooking in Luxembourg

1999 1st prize in the Competition Festival d'Autore MIG (International Ice Cream) in Longarone

1999 Grand Prix Finalist pastry, chocolate Evian Les Bains in France

1999 Certificate of Merit world championships cooking chocolate section in Basel

2000 Bronze Medal World Championships in Salzburg cuisine

2006 Gold Medal for Best Cioccolatino Italian for the year 2005/2006 to Treviso

2006 First Place awards category Gradisca Chocolate Melange

2006 First Place awards category Gradisca Chocolate Art

2006 First Place Award Out of Choccie circle print

2006 Bronze Medal World Championships Luxembourg cuisine

2006 Bronze Medal Team World Championships Luxembourg cuisine

2006 Mention piece of art in chocolate world championships kitchen Luxembourg

Year 2007

2007 Best Italian chocolate pistachio, Treviso

2007 Runner Up Contest chocolates in Motta di Livenza

2007 Attestato di merito da parte dei Cavalieri di S. Martino

2007 Three gold medals at international championships in Italy

2007 Honorable Mention Best piece of art by the FIC

2007 NATIONAL CHAMPION TITLE ABSOLUTE

2007 Silver Medal Pièce chocolate D2 program to international lka Moscow (Russia)

2007 Silver Medal Pièce chocolate to international lka Moscow (Russia)

2007 Bronze medal for the program to pasticcena lka Moscow (Russia)

2007 First Place Award at the hearts Ciocco awards 2007

2007 First Place Award at the Best praline in Motta di Livenza

Year 2008

2008 National champions were crowned pastry, gold and silver medal

2008 Olympics cooking Erfurth (Germany) won gold trophy Villeroy best decoration to the plate on 300 chefs from around the world

2008 Olympics cooking Erfurth (Germany) Bronze medal team

2008 Olympics cooking Erfurth (Germany) 2 bronze medals piece of art in chocolate

Year 2009

2009 Retiring from competition to form a high-school chocolate

2009 Guinnes Worl Record

2009 Work and economic progress gold medal given from the province of Belluno

2009 Holder of the Guinness World Record for the biggest mocha in the world

2009 Confirmed in his appointment as chairman for Veneto Food CNA

2009 Appointed in National chairmanship for Italian Food CNA

These business results:

From 1994 until 2000 I worked at the most prestigious pastry and chocolate shops in Cortina d'Ampezzo (BL) and in Switzerland. I attended many courses in the world of Black Gold.

2000 I opened a chocolate shop in Limana Bakery Cafe (a few kilometers from Belluno) where I started to produce the first chocolate bars. I started with classical mixtures and then gradually, those with hot peppers, blueberries, raspberries, cinnamon, mint, prosecco, rum, gin, to the tablet 100% of pure chocolate.

2004 I started to market the chocolate produced in Limana throughout the whole Dolomites and was immediately a success from a few hundred boards a year, I started a production of thousands of tablets per month.

2004 I was elected President of the Pastry Craftsmen in Belluno.

2005 I opened a new and highly efficient laboratory on an area of 280 square meters can produce more than 1000 tablets per day, and I equipped for large scale production of Easter eggs with surprise custom, also on behalf of other laboratories.

2005 I became a father (nice win)

2006 I opened a new store in Piazza Lorenzo Limana Florida in which I have given much space in addition to the chocolate, coffee roasting and imports of tea leaf.

2006 I was elected Regional President of Confectioners

2007 Expansion of the ocean other chocolate products in New Yolk and Orlando

2007 achieving the first of my stores in Franchising sixteen BL

2008 I created a series of franchised stores, first in Milan then Feltre (BL), Bressanone (BZ), Rovigo and Belluno.

2008 Fund with 5 other colleagues, the Fine Chocolate Organization

2008 I Participated in a meeting in Santo Domingo to implement a project to produce high quality cacao

2008 I gave birth to a  chocolate school along with chocolate Fine Chocolate Organization

2008 Together with the Veneto Region which will start on the path to the establishment of a school of chocolate in which to form chocolatiers worldwide

2008 Along with Coswell of Bologna, in a group of artisan chocolatiers to supply all of Italy Esselunga

2008 Again extend my lab, perfecting even the stages of unloading cargo warehouse

2009 I became a father for the second time!

2009 Opening of 4 new "Mirco Della Vecchia's" Franchising shops