Did you know the founder of Hotel Chocolat’s dad was the inventor of Mr Whippy? Yep ― Angus Thirlwell, who launched the brand in 2004, is the son of the iconic soft-serve inventor. Speaking to the BBC, he explained that the name of his own brand was a little less directly related to the product than his father’s most famous offering. What does Hotel Chocolat mean?The name doesn’t technically mean anything, the founder said. “It was aspirational,” he told the BBC in 2014. “I was trying to come up with something that expressed the power that chocolate has to lift you ou