Entrepreneur Rick Sapio Promotes Family Placemats

When people see Rick Sapio, they probably think successful businessman, young entrepreneur, or intelligent investor. Not many people may see his family-inspired creativity. Yet Richard Sapio has founded more than twenty companies, with one of his most recent creations being a website called Family Placemat.

This website is simple. Guests can design their own placemats to set at the table, use one of the four downloadable examples Richard Sapio has on the site, customize it, and print it out. Rick Sapio's idea to create a site for family placemats was a result of the actions he took with his own family.

As a devoted family man, Rick Sapio printed and laminated his own family placemats. The idea was spread by friends who created their own. Richard Sapio then decided to share the simple idea with others online. Thus Family Placemat was born online. The homemade placemats were created by Richard Sapio in order to fully engage his family come mealtime.

Originally, the Sapio's family placemats were created to reinforce their family values. Businessman Richard Sapio saw the placemats also as an opportunity to reinforce the importance of family meals and family bonding. Richard Sapio recognizes families have alternating schedules but through his own experience, the use of these customized placemats reminded the family of their bonds and strengthened the family relationship.

The mission of Family Placemat is "By strengthening families, we strengthen the world." Richard Sapio made the site as simple to use as possible and gave ideas for what could be included on the placemats. He includes examples like images of the family, values, rules, goals, or more. The use and free examples provided on the website help Rick Sapio to share his own values of family while encouraging others to follow in his footsteps. Richard Sapio believes keeping family bonds strong is important.