25 Women: Amanda Morrison finds 'magic' in Tallahassee's supportive restaurant culture
Heather Fuselier
You better fasten your seatbelt before getting into a conversation with Amanda Morrison; she is going places, and fast.
In fact, she moves so fast that she didn’t even know she had been named one of Tallahassee’s 25 Women You Need to Know until her phone started buzzing with alerts and text messages of congratulations. “I have admired the women on this list for years,” she says with enthusiasm, “so it is really humbling to be added to it.”
Morrison arrived on the Tallahassee scene in 2001 as a first-generation college student. “I was not a good student,” she admits. Already a veteran of the hospitality business, where she had been working since the age of 15, she was driven to work. “I was more likely to work a double than to go to class,” she recalls.