With a background in food service and love for serving college students and young professionals, a full-service café seems to Angie Anderson like the perfect way to launch her career as an entrepreneur.
Her Red Cedar Café located in Brookfield Plaza is scheduled to open at the end of August.
"It's always been a dream of mine to have my own business," says Andreson. "I love working with the public. I love customer service."
As well as great service, visitors to the 2,600 square foot business will be served soups salads and made to order meals as well as the regular café fare of baked goods, coffee and espresso drinks.
"Hopefully it will be a place where people will want to meet and have dinner, and students will want to come to have coffee and study," Anderson says.
Anderson has been working on the idea of the Red Cedar Café since January, and now construction on the restaurant is well underway. She is converting the locations of two former adjacent businesses in the Brookfield Plaza into one for a large space that will seat 58 inside and include outdoor seating.
"We had to totally renovate," Anderson says of her project, which includes everything from an all-new kitchens to funky décor. "It's going to have a welcoming feel and still really appeal to the younger eye. It's going to be eclectic."
Twenty-two new employees have now been hired to staff the Red Cedar Café upon opening.
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