Naples Wedding Venues at the Classics Country Club

I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and was raised in the restaurant business. My family opened up our first of three restaurants in 1971. I attended Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute and graduated in 1988 with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. I then became the banquet manager for the Scottsdale Conference Resort, which became the #1 corporate resort in the United States in the late 1980’s. In 1990, I was offered the beverage manager position at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, a position I held for three years. I returned to Cleveland in 1993 to open the family’s second and third restaurants. We sold our restaurants in 1999 with my sister keeping the original Mario Fazio’s, which is more popular now than it has ever been. In 2001, I was offered the position of F&B Director of the Mea Culpa, a 178ft. super yacht. I worked and sailed the South Pacific for four years based in Sydney, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. I moved to Naples, Florida in 2004, and became the General Manager of Stoney’s Steakhouse, and later the Director of the entire Bayfront property. In 2011, I went to work on 5th Ave. in Downtown Naples as the general manager of Pazzo’s and Chops, before my current position as Food and Beverage Manager of the Classics at Lely Resort.