Andreas Widmer

Friends, welcome back to Prosper.

I'm your host, Andreas Widmer, coming to you from the Entrepreneurship Center at the Catholic University of America's Bush School of Business.

And this is Prosper, 30 minutes of the wisdom you need to flourish in business.

And I'm Rebecca Teddy, co-host of Prosper.

And this season, you'll recall, we're talking to experienced entrepreneurs about the real problems they encounter along the journey and how they steered their companies and their people through them.

So today Andreas and I get to speak to our business neighbor, George Tapia.

He's the co-founder and chief executive officer of Zest Food Services, a purpose-driven catering and food service company known for delivering high quality, comforting meals across a wide range of events and institutional settings.

Under his leadership, the company, also operating as Catering by Zest, has built a strong reputation for reliability, warmth, and operational excellence, serving clients throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, among them the Bush School of Business and all over the Catholic U campus.

The machinery, as he put it, just keeps running.

Andreas Widmer knows that machinery from the inside.

He served as a Swiss guard under St. John Paul II in the 1980s, and today he teaches business at the Catholic University of America.

He says life at the Vatican carries on when a pope is sick, and the pope's staff keep him up to date on everything.