IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Table Talk Jessica Ratledge GM at Snow City Cafe
Snow City is having a busy summer and beating our sales projections nearly every day! We are about to launch the heads up display system KDS and we are thankful to have Spenard Roadhouse as a resource for this new adventure in digital tickets. Our rotating art shows have been really exciting for our guests and staff; we are excited to pick our new artists in September! Please let us know if you’d like to be considered for an art show. Email jess@snowcitycafe.com for more information.
Employees can access their pay stubs and other employee information online through ADP as well as update personal/ contact information
Downtown, corner of 4th + L Street
To access visit: http://workforcenow.adp. com/public/index.htm and register today!
Katherine Cooper GM at Spenard Roadhouse
Spenard Roadhouse has had a busy summer and weekly sales are very close to those we saw in 2015. Food cost is still doing awesome + bar cost is expected to be within goal by the end of the year. Staff retention is high + we have seen a lot of in-house promotion throughout the past year.
Go to First Time User and select the REGISTER HERE button
Midtown, near REI
Company Registration Code is: localgrown-welcome Check your email for a confirmation link to activate your account. To access your paystub, click MYADP button. A new pop-up window will prompt you for your log-in information. *Note: Paystubs will only show from when the company switched to ADP’s services in November 2015. You can also access paystubs via ADP Mobile Solutions app once you’ve registered online
Tyler Crenshaw GM at South Restaurant
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We recently celebrated our first year of operations and we really enjoyed our temporary status as Best New Restaurant - voted by both PRESS and ADN readers! Sales have stabilized as the novelty of a new restaurant wears off, but we continue to expect a $6 million year. South enjoys very low staff turnover and we are working every day to identify challenges and find solutions. Currently we are very focused on labor and we are making good progress. We love our sister restaurants and always enjoy seeing your friendly faces at South, so don’t be a stranger!
South Anchorage near Lowe’s
Michelle Smith GM at Sacks Cafe
Sacks is excited to announce the addition of Executive Chef Shana Whitlock! Shana comes to us as the former owner of Torchon Bistro. Shana has an extensive culinary background and strong leadership skills, we are excited to have her as part of the Sacks team. Sacks has experienced a number of wins in creating an new prep team and developing our new bar program. We are focusing on driving sales and re-introducing Sacks to our community.
Downtown, between 3rd + 4th on G Street
08.03.16
Employee Spotlight
Snow City Cafe Ashley Wee Host
Spenard Roadhouse Maeve Johnson Server
What’s your favorite hobby? Running. Right now I’m training for my marathon, which is my first marathon ever so I’m super excited.
What’s your favorite hobby? I really like to cook. I’m creating my own recipe book right now so that’s in the works where I focus a lot on improving cooking If I fail once I’m just gonna keep going until I succeed. That’s something I do on the side. I do really like in the summer time I’m more active, so I like to go hiking and do that kind of stuff.
What’s an interesting fact about you? I lived in Germany for three years and that’s where I went to high school before I came over here to go to UAA for nursing. My parents are military. What’s your favorite part about working at Snow City Cafe? I love my coworkers, everyone is so cool and so nice to me. My manager Brett is amazing. He always gives me my time off when I need it. Everyone else is super understanding and know that everyone has birthdays and weddings and school to go to. It’s really nice that everyone understands that people have lives outside of work.
What’s an interesting fact about you? I like to work, work, work and enjoy what I’m doing, but then book a ticket and go somewhere and travel all I can because you never know what could happen and I don’t want to just be cooped up in one area all the time, so I do a lot of traveling. What’s your favorite part about working at Spenard Roadhouse? I used to eat here a bunch before I started working here. I used to work at Brewhouse and a lot of my friends came here and they just talked it up like it’s a great place to work. Which I didn’t doubt it all as my sister worked at Snow City. When I started working here it was different and it’s more family oriented. That was definitely something I was looking for. When I come to work I actually enjoy being with the people that I work with. They all have such different personalities, which can be really entertaining at times.
South Restaurant Levon Hiler Server
Sacks Cafe Corbin Frazier Server
What’s your favorite hobby? Outdoor stuff. I like to play frolf and I also like to go camping, fishing, hunting and hiking. Going on a hunting trip here just next week for black tail deer. It’s in Kake, Alaska. I’m flying to Juneau and then you just take a quick plane from over there. There’s no natural predators, so all the deer over there are nice big deer and there’s nothing to thin out the population so there’s just more and more every year.
What’s your favorite hobby? Dancing. I have been dancing for over 25 years and I’m a teacher over at Alaska Dance Theater. Mostly ballet, I’ve also gotten into Afro-Brazilian and Cubanese as well and other workshops around the United States. I have actually done the Nutcracker a few times, I’ve danced with ballet school in San Francisco, I’ve danced with OBT Company up here, they’re from Oregon, they’re amazing. So I’ve been with a few different groups on the northwest coast.
What’s an interesting fact about you? I once proposed to Gwen Stefani. They had this contest up here and No Doubt was coming up for a concert and I like to think I’m king of eloquent with words. They had this radio contest where basically whoever wrote the best proposal would win free tickets to the concert. As part of that I also got to meet her in person and say my proposal to her. It was pretty sweet.
What’s an interesting fact about you? I like fires on the beach by myself. I don’t invite anybody else. I just go out on the beach and burn some wood by myself. Solo camp trips.
What’s your favorite part about working at South? I love that it’s part of a greater family. Laile’s awesome, she takes care of the employees. We have a kickball tournament coming up on Labor Day which we’re gonna win… It’s cool ya know there’s little parties and stuff and you can go to any other store and it feels the same way and when we all get together it’s fun. You feel that not only here in the building, but I feel like it goes outside of that too to all the restaurants together.
What’s your favorite part about working at Sacks Cafe? I love the freedom that the management gives each of their employees and I enjoy how they prop us up to think for ourselves.
Restaurant Trivia
Katie Woroneicki Payroll Specialist katie@snowglobeak.com Cindy Lyons Operations Manager cindy@snowglobeak.com Erin Fleischer Financial Manager erin@snowglobeak.com Delyssia Baluyut Finance Admin delysia@snowglobeak.com Logan Heimburger Admin Assistant logan@snowglobeak.com Lana Ramos Marketing Manager lana@snowglobeak.com Kelly Ireland Marketing Assistant kelly@snowglobeak.com
The Back Room True Their wine list James Baker False, only since May 2016 has Sacks had a full bar.
Samantha Stephenson HR Manager sam@snowglobeak.com
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Laile Fairbain Big Boss laile@snowcitycafe.com
location? (hint not Hogg Bros.) 7. What cocktail is South Restaurant known for? 8. Where does South hold special events? 9. True or false: South was originally to be called Boomtown Tavern. 10. What is Sacks Cafe award winning for? 11. Who has worked at Sacks Cafe for the longest time? 12. True or false: Sacks has had a bar since it opened. 1998 President Obama False, Sacks opened in 1983 Bacon Best Bartender Sizzler Barcelona-Style Gin & Tonics
340 G St. Suite 200 907-334-9700
1. In what year did Snow City Cafe open? 2. What U.S. President has visited Snow City Cafe? 3. True or false: Snow City Cafe is the oldest restaurant of the group’s four. 4. Spenard Roadhouse has a monthly special dedicated to what food item? 5. What has Spenard Roadhouse been voted best for by Anchorage Press? 6. What was the first restaurant in Spenard Roadhouse’s
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Locally Grown Properties/ Mothership Who’s Who
Happenings 8/21
Anchorage Runfest’s Spenard Roadhouse 5K 10:00 am - 3:30 pm 6th Ave between F and G Street
8/27
Farmer’s Market Dinner with Chef Shane 6:30 pm The Back Room at South
8/30
Clothes Swap Party for Staff Ladies 6:00 pm Snow City Cafe
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9/5
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Annual All Restaurant Kickball Tournament & BBQ 3:00 pm Fairview Lions Park (Restaurants closed for Labor Day)