If you’re booking a private event with us this year, there’s a pretty strong chance this is the lady you’ll find leading the team. Even though she’s only lived in the Midwest since college, Alisha’s connection to the region would have you convinced she has lived in Minnesota all her life. She joined the team as a server back in 2017, and proved right away that service was second-nature to her. To this day, Alisha is a shining example of what hospitality should look like, so it’s no surprise that she’s now considered one of our most seasoned and tenured banquet leads.
Like many of us, Alisha says it’s the rest of the staff that have kept her around all these years.
“The strange chosen family we have created together over the years. It was alive and well when I first started, so maybe it’s Mitch’s spirit that’s still loving us so fiercely, but we take care of each other through the inevitable hardships of life. I realized recently it’s quite like an orphanage, or home for wayward souls. I have been so lucky and grateful to have them the last several years of my life. I think it goes both ways.”
She’s right. It does. And it’s that same sense of service-based community that drives Alisha forward. Working on our private events team for as long as she has means Alisha has worked every type of event under the sun– many of those being huge life events for our guests. Last year, when we gave away a wedding to celebrate 10 years of legal gay marriage, Alisha was one of our team captains, seeing that our two grooms’ special day went off without a hitch. An honor she says she won’t soon forget. Now Alisha has a whole new honor bestowed upon her. She recently just accepted the role as our Host Manager, taking all of that genuine welcoming persona, and imparting it on those who act as our first impression.
Now what’s Alisha’s go-to shift fuel these days? Our energy-loaded Warm Greens Grain Bowl with spicy impossible sausage and a healthy pour of Cry Baby Craig’s. She likes to pair that with an english muffin on the side that’s loaded up with our housemade peanut butter.