Spotlight
Tanya Kropinicki, AS'08
A shared love of food proved to be a saving grace for Tanya Kropinicki,
AS’08, and two of her co-workers when company downsizing resulted the
elimination of their positions.
“It first started as a joke,” said Kropinicki, who had worked in her
company’s marketing department after graduating with a degree in
Communications Studies. “None of us had any experience in the restaurant
industry except for cooking and waitressing. But we did some research,
looking into what it would take. It was always a ‘what-if’ kind of
thing. Then ‘what-if’ happened.”
Much of the research Kropinicki and her friends conducted centered on
exclusivity: what food could they provide that wasn’t available anywhere
else?