I Hope that It Won’t End Though….Quizzo with Tom Heinly and Qamara Edwards

This week MG is saving a seat for her guests, Tom Heinly and Qamara Edwards. MG met Tom in the early 2000s when he was the karaoke DJ at her college bar and one of MG’s go to song’s was “Alone” by Heart, and Tom and Qamara have been friends for years through quizzo.

The three friends talk about how they have had to change their business models and approach this past year, and how they are shaping the future of events.

Topics Include:

🎙 Finding Community in Unexpected Places
🎙 The Importance of Relationships
🎙 Universal Love of Hospitality and Entertaining
🎙 Hospitality as an All Encompassing Industry and 🎙 What We are all Doing to Support It
🎙 Silver Linings from the Past Year

CW: Language

About Tom

Tom has been a Dj and Quizzo Host for 17 years. He opened Press Play Djs in 2013 and expanded his business to book Djs and Quizzo hosts at multiple venues in the Philadelphia area.

About Qamara

While studying at Northwestern University, Qamara fell in love with the hospitality industry.

Restaurants and hospitality combine all of her passions into one: making new friends, hosting friends to her “home” with amazing food and drinks, event planning, and the challenges of running a business – tapping into her strong entrepreneurial spirit. A chance meeting between proud Northwestern alumni (Jill is also an alumnus), she welcomed the opportunity to join Jill Weber’s team in 2014, to help open the group’s third restaurant, Café Ynez.

Qamara took on more responsibilities and projects in her current position, Director of Business and Events. In this new role, she introduces the group’s restaurant and catering portfolio to guests through on-site private events and off-site community events. In 2019, Qamara became President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association, which allows her the chance to bring the entire hospitality industry together in becoming one stronger voice across the state.

Away from the restaurants, you will find Qamara hosting game nights at her home or Jet Wine Bar, and she enjoys playing softball and fancies herself a Boggle Master.

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Connect with Qamara on Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin.

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