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Richard Saperstein obtained his Blind Enterprises of
Nevada (BEN) license in 1987, and has operated several sites. He currently
manages the Galley at the Fallon Naval Air Station. He was re-elected as
Chairman of the Nevada Committee of Blind Vendors in 2006.
Richard Saperstein was born in New York City and lived in the Metropolitan New
York area until his family moved to Palos Verdes Estates, California in 1968
where he later went to work as a dishwasher for a local fine dining restaurant.
He graduated from Palos Verdes High School and went on to receive a Bachelor of
Science degree in Business Administration with a major in Management and a minor
in Human Resources Management from California State University Long Beach. He
pursued the food service business and was promoted to Area Manager for the Las
Vegas market for a large Pizza chain in 1981. Two years later, he was hired as
Assistant Food and Beverage Manager for a Las Vegas Strip Hotel and casino.
He began his association with the Bureau of Services for the Blind in 1985 when
he began losing his eyesight to Diabetic Retinopathy. After nearly two years of
eye surgeries and rehabilitation, he went to work in a newly opened BEN location
in 1987. He was promoted to the operator of that location three months later and
was able to take a failing operation and make it very profitable. In 1989, he
moved to Carson City where he designed, built and managed the new food service
facility that fed both the Nevada Peace Officer Standards and Training Academy
and the Nevada Highway Patrol Academy.
In 1990 he was elected to the Nevada Committee of Blind Vendors as the Northern
Nevada representative and served in that capacity throughout most of the decade.
In 2000 he was elected Vice-Chair of the Committee and in 2002 he was elected as
its Chair, the position that he still holds today. Also in 2002, he was selected
to operate the newly acquired food service facility at the Fallon Naval Air
Station. His company, Saperstein Services, Inc. is in its fourth year of
successful operation at this location. He is one of only three Managers to
operate a military base dining facility without the use of a teaming partner.
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