Eat’n Park Hospitality Group Volunteer of the Year
We Care About Our Communities!
Eat’n Park Hospitality Group Volunteer of the Year
We Care About Our Communities!
For 75 years, we have been proud to not only do business in our communities, but to actively be a good neighbor in our communities as well. Across our 14-state geography and with the help of our nearly 10,000 team members, we have the reach, the passion, and commitment to improve our communities for the good of all.
Read about the impact we made together last year in our 2023 Commitment to Community Report! Click here.
Through our Annual Eat’n Park Hospitality Group Volunteer of the Year Award, we recognize team members who go above and beyond in service to their local community.
We recently named our newest Volunteer of the Year for her outstanding commitment to community service in 2023. Congratulations to Shalisa “Shay” Lawson-Anderson. Shalisa joined our team six years ago, transferred to another Eat’n Park location while she was earning her undergraduate degree, and returned to her “home” restaurant, the Chippewa Eat’n Park (Beaver Falls, PA), after graduation.
Shay was nominated by her General Manager, Malory, who noticed that the hospitality she extends inside their restaurant’s four walls is evident in the way she cares for others in her personal life, too.
Malory said that Shay embodies what we think of when it comes to volunteerism. She is an outstanding example of a team member, and an advocate in her community.
Shay cares about her community so deeply that she founded her own organization, called the S.H.A.Y (Spreading Hope Amongst Youth) Foundation, with a mission to “inspire individuals to embrace forgiveness as a path to healing, thereby creating a ripple effect of positive change in their lives and communities.”
In recognition and with deep admiration for Shay’s work, Eat’n Park Hospitality Group was proud to present her with $1,000 to the S.H.A.Y. Foundation!
Check out Shay’s celebration, which was hosted at her restaurant with her coworkers, below!
