Q1 : WHAT inspired you to start baking cookies and how old were you? You say in your story that you wanted cookies for dinner while at college, is that true? What year was that?

Q2 : Is this your mom’s recipe or your grandma’s or where did you get the recipe? Did they even bake chocolate chip cookies when you were a kid?

Q3 : You say you were baking cookies when you left college and were bringing them to pot luck events at different companies all across Orange County, CA, tell us about that. What did you start to witness?

Q4 : Side note, but what is your obsession with chocolate chip cookies? I mean, you've been baking them for 35+ years, you've sold them online, you've given them away to people for free all these years, ... what's your story? Is this an addiction to chocolate, a fetish, a compulsion, a love for ... what drives you to bake cookies and why are yours the best over all the other bakers out there?

Q5 : When you became a freelancer after leaving the corporate world behind (in the mid 1990s), you said you would use cookies to get clients, thank them for their business or get them to pay their bill without mean phone calls or threats of small claims court, what was that like? How did that come about?

Q6 : When did you start selling your cookies online and what were the steps to do that, what year was that and how long did you sell them online? You say you built your own website, installed the shopping cart, and hooked up the payment processor yourself. Where did you get those web skills? 

Q7 : Can you also tell us some crazy cookie baking stories like the time you baked 800+ cookies in one day or you made 14 batches (=550 cookies) to fulfill Valentine's orders? What about repeat customers? Did you have any? What did you see from a consumer's standpoint? Why did they keep buying your cookies instead of going to the store for cookies? 

Q8 : How did you perfect your chocolate chip cookie recipe over the past 35+ years since you started baking in 1988 and what are the ingredients, if I might ask ...

Q9 : Can you give us any cookie baking tips without giving away your secret recipe? Why aren't you able to share your recipe at this time? When will you be able to? What are you waiting for? Does anyone (else) know your secret recipe? If we asked them to share it, would they? How much of it do they remember?

Q10 : There are other chocolate chip cookie bakers out there who say their cookies are the best, how do you respond to their claims? You wrote a report called, 21 REASONS WHY YOU MAKE THE BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES, tell us about that and what do you think about cookies made by other bakers? What QUALIFIES someone to be able to say they make the best chocolate chip cookies?

Q11 : When it comes to other chocolate chip cookie recipes you've seen online, what do you see? What patterns? Are they just copy-cats of one another's recipe or what? Tell me what you've read in the comments section of most EVERY ONE of those recipe web pages. How does your recipe differ from the others?

Q12 : What flavors do you bake and do you bake any other type of cookies why/why not? How are your cookies different from other chocolate chip cookies? Oh, what's a B-BITE and a B-MO? Those are the two sizes of cookies you bake, right?

Q13 : What makes your chocolate chip cookies so unique? Why do people call them ADDICTIVE or that they should be illegal, etc.?

Q14 : Some people, if not most, who try your cookies say they’re ORGASMIC? What do they mean? How can that be? By the way, WHERE ARE MY COOKIES? ;-)

Q15 : You have 600+ cookie stories, reviews and testimonials associated with your chocolate chip cookies. 427 testimonials, 140 reviews and 51+ stories. No cookie company has that many POSTED on their website like you do, let alone a book about their cookies. Tell me about some of the funny cookie stories, a few reviews and some of the testimonials? I've read them and I've NEVER seen anything like it on other cookie-selling/recipe websites.

Q16 : Now, you don't sell your cookies any more from your website, like you used to. Why did you stop? You say your plans now are to sell your unique recipe to the right company who will work with you. Tell me about that.

Q17 : What are CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE TASTING PARTIES? Tell me about those? They sound like fun! 

Q18 : Have any celebrities had your cookies? You mailed some to Gene Simmons of KISS, right? Tell us that story.

Q19 : Can you see yourself on SharkTank® pitching the investors? What would you say to them! Is going on their show even necessary for what you want to do?

Q20 : What’s next for Bart’s cookies? When, where and how can the masses enjoy your world famous chocolate chip cookies and get the recipe to be able to make them at home like you do?