OUR STORY
We’re Rich and Hannah Hayes, founders of Suzie June Drinking Chocolate. Nestled in the serene Sunshine Coast Hinterland of Queensland, our journey began a decade ago when we opened a small café in Montville, built on a commitment to quality and care.
When we couldn’t find a hot chocolate that met our standards, so we began crafting our own—rich, honest, and thoughtfully made. Since then, Suzie June has grown to offer a collection of drinking chocolates and spiced lattes designed to elevate everyday rituals into moments of genuine joy.
We invite you to embrace your own Suzie June ritual and take a moment to Pause, Sip and Savour.
Guided by the basic principle of, using high quality ingredients with minimal intervention delivered in a user-friendly way, we created our original blend of drinking chocolate.
A combination of dark Belgium chocolate, west African cocoa and Australian raw sugar. A blend that is naturally gluten and dairy free – our customers loved it!
We then started using food grade essential oils to flavour our chocolate. The essential oils allowed us to keep our hot chocolates all natural and enabled us to play with some fun and nostalgic flavour combinations.
Taking our knowledge of blending high quality natural ingredients, we created our Chai and Turmeric latte powders. Filled with the goodness of warming spices these soon become café favourites too.
With demand for a take home product rising and other cafés, restaurants and coffee roasters taking interest in our quality products, we made the decision to leave café life and focus on making Suzie June Drinking Chocolate more available to people who love quality.
We now send Suzie June products all over Australia!
We love what we do and love to be able to offer a moment of quiet joy to people, an opportunity to ‘warm your heart and nourish your soul’.
We believe that these moments are special and should be sort out at every opportunity.
And if these moments can be achieved through hot chocolate, chai and turmeric lattes then, why not take that moment.
Xo
Rich and Hannah