Day Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. presents the “Pasta and Pies” Restaurant concept December 10th, 2025

The Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. Executive Paramus, NJ Team December 10th, 2025

My Executive Team Team picture

Every semester for my Business Marketing, Management and Communications classes, I create one big Team assignment for my students. In a Commuter College, it is a lot tougher for students to get to know one another between their studies and their jobs, so I create these projects to foster learning, creativity and especially Teamwork.

This semester I taught three sections of Business 101-Introduction to Business, which is the entry level course to the Business/Hotel Management School. This is a tough course to teach as you always have students of various age groups and various levels of industry experience.

The Fall semester was no different. This makes the class more interesting yet more challenging to teach. I still challenge them and test them to see what type of future executives they will become.

This semester I created three restaurant concept projects for my students, “Sounds and Subs”, a music store and sub/sandwich shop concept based on Mike’s Sub Shop in Boonton, NJ, “Farmer’s Market”, a farm to table concept based on The Corner Counter in Red Hook, NY and then “Pasta and Pies”, a sweet and savory pie concept with pasta dishes based on Nobel Pies out of Beacon, NY.

My evening Business 101 class worked on the “Pasta and Pies” concept where they were challenged to create a restaurant with a menu of sweet and savory pies, creative pasta dishes, a mocktail menu and a gift shop selling items from their menu plus clothing and gifts. The results were amazing to see and what students with a little creativity, a lot of time (six weeks) and a little push can accomplish.

In the past, I have created these projects under the Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc. banner, the main consulting company, the Orion Malls banner, a Mall design company and the Buscomonzefi.com banner, my Tech Division. Each business does its best to be creative, forward thinking and have a thought producing presentations. I also challenge the students to top on another in their presentations and build on what they have seen others do in the past.

The Bergecco-Parc Banner is an acronym for Bergen Community College Paramus Campus where I work. I use this concept to teach the lessons in the book.

Professor Justin Watrel, CEO Bergecco-Parc Consulting Inc.

Our Corporate site (created my one of my former President’s:

This class created menus with creative pies and what delicious ingredients that can be tucked into them, selective pasta dishes with side salads and unique signature desserts. Some students kept the menus safe while others really put their heart and sole into it and showed how creative they were with their menus.

One Wednesday night, December 10th, 2025, the class presented their ideas to me and these are the results of the individual Teams.

The Project Concept:

The Proposal for Pasta and Pies:

The PowerPoint Presentation of the Project:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G9MngEpc0Jzxa-jsUcfCI-R9eSd-pBG1PAhMsOYflCY/edit?slide=id.g3aaba619d79_4_162#slide=id.g3aaba619d79_4_162

The YouTube Presentation:

Part One: Opening Team Four and Team One

https://www.youtubeeducation.com/watch?v=FeXYdhTMG8c

Part Two: Team Two and Team Three

Part Three: Team Five and the Conclusion

https://www.youtubeeducation.com/watch?v=vV-C8kg5jbI

The Company Website:

The Team Presentation pictures from that evening:

Each of the Team members are required to be in Professional dress when presenting their project to the fictional client as they would in task life.

Team Four starting their presentation

Team One presenting their presentation

Team Two’s winning presentation and I wanted to add the best dressed Team

Some of the creative Gift Shop ideas from Team Two

Team Four presenting their project featuring their logo

Team Five making their presentation of their Team

Some very creative advertising from Team Five

At the end of the presentation and after the Q& A, we take the Corporate picture, which I do to show feature recruiters what these students are made of and what seasoned executives they will make in the future. I really am proud of the students that accomplish this project.

Our Corporate picture at the end of the evening

At the end of the evening, I always have a small reception after the presentation. Many of the groups brought samples of their pies for extra credit and our President was the manager of a bakery and brought this beautiful sheet cake with the company logo on it. I thought this was very clever.

The President’s Cake at our reception after the presentation

I bake a variety of cookies, brownies and rice crispy treats along with providing a variety of chips, sodas and waters for the reception. It is my way of recognizing a job well done.

The students did a nice job interpreting what the ideas and theme of the project was and what the client might be expecting.

It was a very interesting evening of which I hope the students carry with them in the future not just to other classes but into the workplace as well.

Best of luck to my future executives.

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