To the rescue

Entrepreneur,  Nov, 2004  by Amanda C. Kooser

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Mazzitti concedes that she may have to upgrade her electricity after receiving the first runner-up's prize: a Xerox Phaser 8400DP color printer (estimated retail price: $1,699) and a one-year warranty on service and supplies, totaling $2,700. She also gets a three-year subscription to entrepreneur.

"We produce a lot of ad hoc marketing materials, and to have a color printer here, it's going to be quicker and much less expensive than going to those places that do color copies for a dollar a page," says Mazzitti, sounding relieved. "Oh, our lives are going to change dramatically."

--Geoff Williams

2ND RUNNER-UP

Music to Their Ears

"We know how to make sandwiches, but we don t know how to redesign an office," says Cathy Morelli.

For the past 18 years, not including the time she logged when they were dating, Morelli has worked with her husband and her in-laws at Augustino's Rock and Roll Deli, based in Carol Stream, Illinois. Morelli, 45, entered Xerox and Entrepreneur's Makeover Contest because, as she notes of the 36-employee enterprise, "the business is growing,but the office has stayed the same size." Morelli,a self-described office queen when she isn't in the restaurant or at the soon-to-open second location, describes a room with two doors--but only one is in use because the cluttered desk blocks the other.

As the second runners-up, Morelli and her husband, Jerry (below)--along with his parents, Augie and Phyllis--have won a three-year subscription to Entrepreneur, a Xerox WorkCentre M15i multifunction unit (estimated retail price: $1,299), and a one-year warranty on service and supplies, totaling $1,821. The WorkCentre will come in especially handy because their fax machine just broke. "We get 20 to 30 faxes a day," Morelli says. "We're always sending out menus. With the amount of faxing we do, it's like we beat our machine to death. So this is great timing."

She also likes the idea of having a printer, fax and scanner all in one machine--saving space, something they sorely need. "There are people who have the intelligence to keep their offices in order. Not that we don't," says Morelli. "We're just too busy making sandwiches."

--G.W.

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