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Featured Team Members
Emily
Floral Specialist
Emily "enjoys working with flowers because flowers are always a happy product." With flowers as her paintings and the floral department as a gallery, she's been making customers happy since 2004.
- Important fact: about 60% of the flowers in her gallery are locally grown.
- Favorite flower: Whichever one suits her mood — she never saw a flower she didn't like.
- Other favorite product: Cheese, especially Gruyere.
Reshma
CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPERVISOR
Reshma likes to make a positive, lasting impression on customers and she's been doing it since 2006. She says that the great store atmosphere her fellow Team Members create makes her job easy.
- Favorite product: Perfect Foods Bar. They taste like candy, but they're healthy and fill you up.
- Favorite after-work activity: Cooking! Food brings people closer, and good food does it faster and better.
Roya
BODY CARE SPECIALIST
Roya combines a poet's sensitivity and years of experience to provide expert advice on body care and cosmetics. That beautiful smile comes from the appreciative hugs and handshakes her customers give her every day.
- Product she recommends most often: Natural deodorants.
- Favorite other product: Bombilla Mate in the Peach flavor; it's refreshing, energizing, and a great way to stay balanced and focused when life gets hectic!
- Favorite Leisure activity: Writing poetry, painting and reading.
Kelly
Grocery Team Trainer, Frozen Buyer
Kelly loves working in Frozen Foods because she stays cool all summer long! Plus, she takes pride in offering the best ice cream selection in all of Redwood City. She's been staying cool with Whole Foods Market since 2005.
- Favorite frozen product: PJ's Organic Burritos
- Favorite other product: Whole Foods meat — it's the only meat she trusts for quality and humane treatment of animals.
- Favorite leisure activity: Cooking and spending time with her children.
YESENIA
SPECIALTY DEPT. ASSISTANT TEAM LEADER
Yesenia thinks Specialty is the real deal. She loves what she does, learns a lot and gets paid for it! Yesenia has been recommending special wine and cheeses to her customers since 2004.
- Favorite cheese: Parmigiano Reggiano "The mother of all parmesan."
- Favorite other product: Any fruit from the produce department.
- Favorite leisure activity: Working out, exercising. "It relaxes me and makes me feel good."
PATTY & LUCY
BAKERY TEAM LEADER & ASSISTANT TEAM LEADER
Regular customers are like family to Patty and Lucy because they see them almost every day. And the work they do? "It's a piece of cake," says Lucy, who's been at Whole Foods for 4 years compared to Patty's 7. Together, they make our Bakery department a joy to shop and work in.
- Favorite store products: Patty: kambucha. Lucy: Whole Body cosmetics.
- Favorite leisure activity: Patty: going to the theatre. Lucy: relaxing in the park with her family.
ELLIOTT
SEAFOOD TEAM LEADER
Elliott is a well-schooled fishmonger who's been with Whole Foods Market for 5 years now. He loves to help out his customers, even escorting them to other departments to help find products that will complement their seafood purchase.
- Favorite seafood: Shrimp, grilled with lemon
- Favorite other product: Made-in-house tortillas from Bakery—no other store in the region has them.
- Favorite leisure activity: Fishing, of course!
Store Calendar
November 21st-23rd
Store: 8am-10pm Holiday Table: 8am-9pm
November 24th-25th
Store: 8am-11pm Holiday Table: 8am-10pm
Thanksgiving Day
Store: 8am-2pm Holiday Table: 8am-10am
