Show 271, April 28, 2018: Wendle Lesher, Director of Food and Beverage, Mauna Kea Resort

Wendle LesherWendle Lesher is the Director of Food and Beverage for Mauna Kea Resort, encompassing all restaurant and banquet staff and food and beverage operations at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Autograph Collection and Hapuna Beach Resort, (emerging in late June as The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort).

In his role as Mauna Kea Resort Director of Food and Beverage, Lesher is responsible operationally and fiscally for nearly a dozen food and beverage outlets. We’ll chat with Wendle about the intriguing new restaurants at Hapuna including Meridia, Naupaka Beach Grill and Ikena Landing.

Meridia is Hapuna’s new signature dining experience featuring distinctive Mediterranean inspired cuisine with locally sourced ingredients. The personable Chef there is Chris Galinda who we met last year at BICF when he was cooking next door at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel’s Hau Tree located adjacent to the sand.

Lesher joined Mauna Kea Resort in 2017 having worked since 2013 at The Fairmont Orchid, first as Director of Outlets, then Director of Food and Beverage and later as Director of Operations. Lesher also worked as Restaurant General Manager at Four Seasons Resort Hualalai.

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