Congrats Brenda!

August Employee of the Month

Brenda E. // Chop Tops

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We have another lady taking home the prize this month, Brenda of Chop Tops! Her friends and fans really rallied during the last two days to bring her 48% of the votes. Brian from Kennedy's was really close behind her though. We have more booze for this month's EOM, a four pack of big beers and pint glasses from Stone Brewing Company! I'm reminding them to deliver the prize today and then it's off to the salon for our drop off. Thanks everyone for voting and playing again this month. We love to shower our peeps with fun gifts and prizes. We'll be doing a special post on Stone Brewing soon and we're going to give away more beer for one of our lucky, local readers. Keep an eye out for it. Brenda, keep up the great work you're doing and good luck with your studies!

Thank you for being our prize sponsor!

The final poll.

September Employee of the Month

Place your votes! These are the top four most viewed posts for the month of September.

The poll is to your right and will be open for one week. We're still working on a great prize

for this month's employee, but jeez, did the month have to go by so fast or what?

We completely lost track of the days!

This month, our ladies are service industry detours representing the great shops at

39th and Pennsylvania and the guys are service industry, a newbie and a pro.

You can re-read their profiles below. As always, good luck to everyone this month!

You have until midnight October 14th to cast your vote.

Brenda » Chop Tops

Nicholas » Grünauer

Amanda » Mash Handmade

Brian » Kennedy's

Congratulations Joy!

August Employee of the Month

Joy J. // Ponak's

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Happy, Happy Joy, Joy!

We are proud to present our friend Joy with this month's EOM award. She had

48% of the votes, but Trey was doing great too. Joy is seriously one of the most

fantastic people I've had the pleasure of meeting through my neighbor Katrin.

She tells the best stories, lives wildly and joyously, and is truly happy at her job.

Now go have a drink and a taco with her!

Thanks again to Ryan from Cellar Rat for the awesome gift basket

which contained three bottles of wine and gourmet snacks

(cheese, chorizo, crackers). We will post exact details later today.

Visit Cellar Rat here.

August Employee of the Month

Place your votes! These are the top four most viewed posts for the month of August.*

The poll is to your right and will be open for one week. Our Employee of the Month

will be receiving a gift basket full of goodies courtesy of Cellar Rat.

This month we have two Lawrence employees, a resident artist and my crazy

great friend Joy. You can re-read their profiles, we've linked to them below.

Keep working hard and good luck to everyone this month.

You have until midnight September 14th to cast your vote.

Michael » 715 Restaurant

Joy » Ponak's

Lindsay » Esquina

Trey » Chez Elle

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*We're on track now! August 1-31.

 Thank you to the Cellar Rat for sponsoring 

 this month's Employee of the Month prize! 

Visit Cellar Rat here // Thanks Ryan!

Congrats David!

 

July Employee of the Month

David H. // The Majestic Restaurant

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Thanks to the very digitally-connected employees this month, we had nearly 2,000 page views during Employee of the Month week. Isn't that crazy?! This month's poll started out fairly even, but soon David and Beau zoomed past the competition. They were going back and forth for the lead with some good-natured ribbing on facebook about cheating and whatnot, but David prevailed. He did say he had some tricks up his sleeve. Soooo, what are your secrets?

David, you're going to have to drag yourself away from writing and the computer and take your girlfriend out to some nice dinners. Thanks to Matt, Celina, Andrew and John, David will be receiving four $25 gift certificates, one from each of the following restaurants:

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715 // Thanks Matt & Michael!

Starker's // Thanks John!

BRGR // Thanks Andrew

Julian // Thanks Celina!

July Employee of the Month

Place your votes! These are the top four most viewed posts for the month of July.*

The poll is to your right and will be open for one week. The winner will be receiving
$100 to four of our favorite Kansas City/Lawrence restaurants.

We have a great mix of employees this month, two general managers, a chef and a server.

Beau has had the most page views of ALL time since he's been posted, so the rest of

our employees this month are going to have to work hard to win! Voting starts now!

Sloane » Story

Beau » Manifesto

David » The Majestic Restaurant

Koji » Nara

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*June 29th - July 29th

 Thank you to the following restaurants for donating gift certificates! 

715 // Thanks Matt & Michael!

Starker's // Thanks John!

BRGR // Thanks Andrew

Julian // Thanks Celina!

Congrats Lindsay!

June Employee of the Month

Lindsay L. // Fresher than Fresh Snow Cones

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It was a closer race this month. Lindsay always had the lead, but Emily was right behind her. Jess K. and her fans brought in a lot of votes towards the second half of the week. Unfortunately for Jess C., I think she was on vacation watching her beloved U2 during the contest. Congratulations Lindsay and good job on getting your peeps to vote! A big, big, big thank you to the restaurants providing gift certificates to our June Employee of the Month. Lindsay will be receiving four $25 gift certificates, one from each of the following restaurants:

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Visit Extra Virgin 

Visit The Rieger

Visit Westport Café and Bar

Visit Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen 

June Employee of the Month

Place your votes! These are the top four most viewed posts for the month of June.*

The poll is to your right and will be open for one week. The winner will be receiving $100 to four of our favorite Kansas City restaurants. We're still working out those details, but we'll let you know soon.

This month the ladies have taken the top spots: Jess/Jessie vs. the ladies from Fresher than Fresh. Who is your favorite? From reader comments last month, you wanted links to the previously posted profiles. You can still search for posts in archives, but now you can click on the links below, read them over again and vote away!

Jessie C. » The Peanut on Main

Jess K. » Glacé

Emily B. » Fresher than Fresh Snow Cones

Lindsay L. » Fresher than Fresh Snow Cones

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*May 30th - June 24th

 Thank you to the following restaurants for donating gift certificates! 

Extra Virgin - thanks Nancy & Michael!

The Rieger - thanks  Ryan & Howard!

Westport Café and Bar - thanks Aaron!

Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen - thanks Laura!

congrats britton!

May Employee of the Month

Britton K. // Volker Bicycles

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Like Ryan last month, Britton won Employee of the Month by a landslide!

Thank you to everyone who participated and voted this month.

Britton wins a pair of vintage hiball glasses. We found these at

River Market Antique Mall in a booth run by a server at Café Europa.

Her booth is down in the lower level and her prices are really great!

Read Britton's original post here.

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prize photo by Linh Trieu

May Employee of the Month

Place your votes! These are the top four most viewed posts for the month of May.*

The poll is to your right and will be open for one week. The winner will be receiving

a special prize from The Employee Lounge: two vintage highball glasses.

Prize photos coming soon.

This month we have Service Industry Detours vs. Service Industry.

Who will take home the glory?

Britton K. » Volker Bicycles

Donna F. » Donna's Dress Shop

Marcia C. » Shabby Hattie's Tea Room & Boutique

Ronnie G. » Justus Drugstore

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*April 25 - May 27

congrats ryan s!

April Employee of the Month

Ryan S. // Cellar Rat

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Ryan is a one well-connected on-line personality.

In this boutique wine store showdown, there was no competition.

He won April EOM by a landslide. Bronson put up a pretty good fight though.

For his win, Ryan will get a custom embroidered onesie made by Tina's

sister for his new baby girl. You can get one of your own here at her etsy shop, 

(which will re-open in June after she gets back from her honeymoon).

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April Employee of the Month

Place your votes! These are the top four most viewed posts for the month of April.*

The poll is to your right and will be open for one week. The winner will be receiving

a special prize from The Employee Lounge (to be determined).

Last month one of our readers, Vic, commented

about a Cellar Rat / Cellar & Loft showdown.

Vic, you called it. It's ooooon.

Brian K. J. » Cellar & Loft

Bronson K. » Westport Cafe & Bar / R Bar

Ryan S. » Cellar Rat

Jarrod F. » Cellar & Loft

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*March 28-April 22

Presenting....March Employee of the Month

March Employee of the Month

Craig R. // Pinnacle Imports

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Craig shamelessly asked for votes from his facebook friends.

And we're okay with that! He has a competitive spirit and that's what

makes him such a great wine rep. But just don't play Rummikub or

or Monopoly Deal with this guy.

With Honors

Orien B. // Tannin Wine Bar

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Orien had the most page views out of anyone on the blog thus far.

He sent fans of Quattro World to our blog and we appreciate the traffic.

Being honored is enough, right Orien?

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 THE PRIZES  

Craig will be receiving a set of six vintage rocks glasses.

Orien will be receiving a vintage Porsche Audi license plate holder.

Prize photos NOT taken by the talented Tina.

March Employee of the Month

Place your votes! These are the top four most viewed posts for the month of March.*

The poll is to your right and will be open for one week. The winner will be receiving

a special prize (to be determined, but something superfab) from The Employee Lounge.

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*The last week of the month will be rolled over to give new features some time

to generate their own following. No hard and fast rules in our informal polls.

Which means NO WHINING. We do what we want.