The original market was entirely commercial chocolate fountains, because chocolate fountains were expensive and needed special maintenance. The market of chocolate fountains began to spread to retail and home users, because some customers who saw the commercial version of chocolate fountains at banquet activities began to ask if they could buy homemade ones. Therefore, at the end of 2004, Maggie Cheung Group Company began to launch the nostalgic chocolate fountain for personal use in the market. Sephra followed suit, and in 2005 launched a high-end home chocolate fountain machine. These new personal use versions are priced for ordinary consumers and easy to operate.
Chocolate fountains entered the retail market, which soon led to the peak demand. Consumers are very excited about the novel family fountain, and chocolate fountain is often a topic of discussion. Therefore, the requirements for chocolate fountains in catering services provided by catering industry are getting higher and higher. This has also caused a wave of innovation in the chocolate hot pot industry. People have developed different flavors of sesame oil, such as mint, orange and cappuccino, which has brought new flavor to chocolate. Catering service providers also began to add food coloring to white chocolate to meet the needs of special festivals and banquets. Some suppliers and home users have begun to invent some special non-chocolate hot pot recipes, which are suitable for flowing smoothly in fountains. Among them, caramel, cheese, maple syrup, ranch salad dressing and barbecue sauce are all very popular. With more and more people starting to use fountain machines to make other types of non-chocolate fountains, it has become a veritable "hot pot fountain machine".
Nowadays, the commercial version of chocolate fountain has been widely used in grand ceremonies, advanced weddings and various advanced catering banquets, while the family chocolate fountain is more common in birthday parties and friends' parties.