On a Friday afternoon in June, children and adults alike filed into the well-lit front room of Schneider's Sweet Shop to peruse a selection of handmade chocolates, fudges, caramels and, of course, the shop's signature opera creams, which were spread out on metal baking sheets behind a glass display.
The candy store in Bellevue, Kentucky has been a Greater Cincinnati staple for 83 years. And little has changed since the shop, at the corner of Fairfield and Foote avenues, first opened in 1939.
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In those early days, Robert Schneider Sr. made every piece of candy himself in a two-car garage behind the Schneider's storefront.
The store has expanded in size since then but it's managed to remain in the family.
After decades making candy, Robert Schneider sold the business on to his son, Jack, in the mid-1980s. Now, Jack Schneider's daughter, Kelly Schneider Morgan, is heading the business.
Morgan began working in the shop when she was 13 years old, she said. She left the shop at around age 20 to work in the hospitality industry, Morgan said, but she returned to the family business just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Morgan said she worked in the shop for two years before she finally bought it from her parents.
