What Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Would Cost Today

Do you recall the fantastical world of Roald Dahl’s classic novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? We’ve all fantasized about going to the mythical factory at some point, but what if it was real? We wondered this so we went to work. We calculated how much it would cost to build and operate the chocolate factory for an entire year.

Here’s how things added up: