Lake Geneva Cannery

Staff is awesome! The variety in the store is amazing! Beware: the nuts are hot!!! Lol. Plenty of sauces and jams. Very unique store in its own right. I wish I could buy out the whole store!

Hot Sauce Heaven!!! This place has it all, from the mild to the tongue melting. They have a variety of different hot products, not just hot sauce. I recommend trying the ghost pepper peanuts and sampling a few of the hot sauces before you buy a big bottle. The staff there is knowledgeable, the place is clean, and if you are a hot sauce hero, you’ll leave with a smile on your face.

HOT SAUCE HOT SAUCE! Holy WOW do they have a selection of hot sauces! From very tasty mild, to call the fire department and ram the firehouse down my throat hot. They have it all. The staff that works there is very welcoming. And open to talking. I recommend if you’re in lake Geneva, make sure to stop in. If you like hot with good flavor. Get the ‘Mango meltdown’ bottle. Just don’t put to much on your food or you’ll be sorry lol.

I have to disagree with the previous review. I went there yesterday and had a great experience. It’s nice that they have so many samples to try, but after working for 10 years in retail I understand why they have so many signs asking people to be sanitary with the samples as so many people are not. The staff is very polite and made sure we were finding everything we needed. One employee even put my infant daughter’s sock back on after she took it off. We got the cocktail sauce and the pork and poultry moppin sauce. The pork sauce tasted great when I tried the sample and I can’t wait to cook with it. They also have a great selection of hot sauce from hot to really hot all organized by heat level. I would have bought some but I already have too many including a ghost chili sauce with capsaicin extract. We will definitely be back next time I’m in Lake Geneva, and by that time I will need more hot sauce.

In short — an unwelcoming environment with EXTREMELY rude owners/​workers — Julie and Darrel. There are signs throughout the entire store that read «Don’t be a pig!» and «this is not lunch or a buffet!» referring to the numerous samples they, themselves have put out. It is hard to tell the quality of the products when tasting them with stale chips and pretzels. Julie follows patrons around the store trying to make them buy things while Darrel stands at the cash register like a warden shouting at patrons. If you left the store without buying anything Darrel would yell out «Glad we could feed you lunch! Don’t forget to tip your waiter!» Julie and Darrel are unprofessional and RUDE RUDE RUDE! I will NEVER step foot in the Lake Geneva Cannery again, the owners do not deserve to be supported!!!