01/31/2025
This is Alex Ting. She's our Kitchen Manager, and has done every other job here along the way. She responded to a Craigslist ad (seriously) back in 2016 and has been with us ever since.
Part of me wants to list all the things about her that makes her so awesome. Like how she's an incredibly hard worker, or how she's a great teacher or how she's' funny and how I've never - not ONCE- had another employee or customer complain about her. But I'm not going to do all that.
What I will say is that she is the real driving force behind this operation. People talk about Liz and I as the faces of the business. If we are the faces, Alex is the backbone. She is as committed to this food and this company and our customers as Liz and I have ever been. And while people are asking Liz and I about the trucks and the company, Alex is out of sight, planning, cooking, leading and making this place exactly what it is all these years later. She has the respect of all her co-workers, just by being who she is. And I do mean all co-worker, over many years. That quality is so rare that it's not something you can fake and it's easy to spot when you come across it.
I have no doubt Liz will agree that we are both better for having Alex in our midst.
It's funny, I can always tell when Ting doesn't agree with one of my ideas, or some path I'm going down, because she has a certain expression she wears while she's listening to me go on. And when that expression pops up...I know it's time for me to listen. Because it means she sees something I don't. I trust her judgement, and I trust her to tell me what she sees.
Ting - thanks for your talent, your loyalty, your honestly and most of all, your friendship over the years. Liz and I are thankful for everything you've brought to the table and we can't wait to see what's next for you.
-Ronnie
