CSA Employees of the Quarter

TGO Employees Of The Quarter

We have been very short staffed this fall and especially since Thanksgiving weekend when our restaurant manager resigned from our team. I’ve always found that when people step down, others are willing to step up for the right reasons, because they are asked to help, because they care about the customers, because they care about their team, and because they don’t want the restaurant to fail, they want to do the right thing. Two people at Blue Heron have really stepped up!

I’ll start with Beth Garrison. She has been our bartender for over three years now. She told me that she loves working here because of the people who have become like her extended family, and the people of TGO love her too. Recently after our manager left, I asked if she would step up as ‘acting manager,’ and she said YES because she wants our restaurant to succeed. This was a tough time to step up, with lots of holiday parties, but she reached out to each party, and made sure we were ready to serve and impress, and we did. Beth is patient, confident, and a good leader. She deserves to be thanked today for her willingness to lead us through stressful times and situations.

We are really short staffed in the kitchen. Our back of house team is very new, but during this time all of them were willing to work extra hours to make these parties happen, and keep our Blue Heron operating and successful. Matt Neely was our most experienced cook, so I asked him if he would be willing to serve as Lead Cook, and he said yes, he would do it. So, along with being our primary cook for all of the parties and the regular business coming in the door, he took on the additional work of preparing the weekly schedule for our kitchen team, he inventoried our food, he ordered food from our vendors, he is doing quality control, and he is training some of the new staff. This work has been challenging and he was literally thrust into it, but Matt was up for the task and he has done a great job. He stepped up and led when we needed leadership, and I am grateful for all the extra time and effort he has put forward to keep our Blue Heron restaurant open and moving forward during this tough time. - Billy Specht -

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