Just Add Water Ceremony

Community Options "broke the wall" to their latest entrepreneurial business today, Just Add Water. Just Add Water will be a cafe style tea shop with onsite catering and corporate training facility located in Hillsborough, NJ. Just Add Water will employ and train people with disabilities so they may learn how to run their own businesses.

With established entrepreneurial businesses in New Brunswick, Flanders, Princeton, Moorestown and Morristown, Community Options is thrilled to be breaking ground on this new and innovative business. Just Add Water will be a café style tea shop with a conference training facility attached that will also offer catering for personal or business needs. Just Add Water will be another business that will positively employ and train people with disabilities.

“Partnering with the Department of Labor to open this entrepreneurial business is ostensible proof of the vision and leadership of Commissioner David Socolow and his team,” said, Robert Stack, President and CEO of Community Options. “This will prove to be one of the greatest achievements for improving the lives of New Jerseyians with disabilities in the next decade,” added, Stack.

Community Options has enlisted the assistance of Kevin Wilkes of the Princeton Design Guild to aid in the development and design of Just Add Water. “"This was labor of love. It represents the culmination of over 10 years of planning and I am delighted that Kevin Wilkes has stepped up to do this project,” said, Stack.

Christopher Dixon, Executive Director of Community Options says, “The beauty of Just Add Water is that it demonstrates that the American dream of entrepreneurship, owning ones own business, and making a positive impact on ones community is without barrier. Anyone, with hard work and the right innovation, can live this dream.”

Attending the ceremony was Commissioner David Socolow of the Department of Labor, Mark McDevitt of the Department of Labor, Vito Palo of the Department of Labor, Shawn McInerney of the Division of Developmental Disabilities, Patricia Feitweis of the Division of Developmental Disabilities, Kevin Wilkes of the Princeton Design Guild and Martin Melilli of The Bank of Princeton.