Tarah will be the lead designer and a day-to-day contact on this project, and will be involved from initial concept design through construction. Her designs will fit the vision and financial goals of the team, with a focus on green and sustainable approaches to the operations. Tarah will work closely with her team during the completion of design and construction documentation, overseeing all project deliverables. She will work with in-house quality control personnel to ensure the highest levels of coordination and documentation are delivered. She will be instrumental in keeping the design team on schedule to meet all milestone deliverable dates.

BACKGROUND
Tarah started her food service journey at Whole Foods Market helping to develop their Rocky Mountain presence and Green Mission program. Now with Ricca for eight years, Tarah promotes the client’s vision, and is a good listener that is able to elicit key information from the project team. She proactively engages all team members, building trust and consistency, and sees the big picture to come up with collaborative solutions.

SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS
Tarah is a sought after expert of sustainability in the food service industry. She is one of the main authors of the National Association of College and Universities Food Services (NACUFS) Sustainability Guide and has presented numerous speeches on sustainable food service design to engineers, architects, and others within the food service industry.