The Daily Grub

Amy Le
GrubHub.com community manager and executive blog chef
Web site: Blog.GrubHub.com
E-mail: amyle@grubhub.com
Twitter: @grubhub


About: My mother bought her first restaurant when I was eight years old. As a kid, I use to go to work with her after school and on the weekends. While probably in violation of several child labor laws, I’d help out by doing everything from washing dishes on a busy Friday night to sweeping the floors after all the customers had left. But the real fun for me was on slow Sunday afternoons, when my brother and I would sneak into the kitchen as the cooks were taking their afternoon naps, and play. Concocting our own specialty dishes, we’d chop, slice, stir and fry up all the goodies at our disposal. I grew up loving to cook and eat. While those lazy Sunday afternoons didn’t jump start my career as a world renown chef or restaurateur — not yet at least — these days as the community manager and executive blog chef at GrubHub.com, I get to write about all the wonderful things that encompasses food and restaurant life, or as my mother likes to think of it, “not waste my expensive journalism degree.”

Favorite foods: Large steaming bowl of Pho Bo soup (Vietnamese beef noodle soup) served with fresh mint, basil, cilantro, a mound of bean sprouts, wedge of lime, and a dash of hoisin and hot chili pepper sauce. Slurpalicious...mmm…good.

Worst food delivery experience: Can’t think of one in particular, but it always ticks me off when a restaurant makes a mistake and refuses to acknowledge wrong-doing. Good customer service can go a long way.