January 19, 2015 Good Ones Lunch Lounge – Back Bay
Happy 2015 #goodones! It’s fitting that the first official post of the year should be the first Good Ones event of the year! Boston’s finest gathered at Alton Lane on Newbury Street for a power hour of networking on January 9th.
Alton Lane creates custom men’s clothing at an affordable price. The shopping experience is like no other. When you step in the door you meet your style expert, you can grab a drink at their bar and then you can start looking at fabrics. You choose how you want to customize your clothes – lapels, cuffs, etc. They take your measurements and then show you into their 3D body scanner. Each showroom has a scanner with 32 sensors inside, which captures your body image and allows them to make a better garment based on your exact measurements.
After they make your clothes, they are sent straight to your home. It’s just a better shopping experience.
Lunch was catered by Scissors and Pie (see my previous post here). Scissors and Pie is a great pizza place on Newbury Street that serves up hand cut Roman pizza. Each square piece of pizza is cut with scissors and you pay by weight or by (full or half) tray.
Pizza comes in flavors like:
Bufala, Pomodorini e Scaglie di Parrmiggiano: fresh handmade mozzarella, plump local cherry tomatoes, fresh arugula, freshly grated Parmesan cheese, fresh handmade bufala mozzarella, home made pesto sprinkled with home made garlic sauce.
Cotto e Patate: Fresh handmade mozzarella, imported prosciutto cotto, thinly sliced roasted potatoes, pink pepper flakes, extra virgin olive oil, and a home made thyme and rosemary oil infusion.
Salsiccia e Broccoli: Fresh hand made mozzarella, imported sausage, fresh broccoli, red pepper flakes and spicy oil.
(L-R) Jennifer Brooke, co founder of the Good Ones; Allana Taranto; Candice Wu, designer at Candice Wu Couture.
So what can you expect at a Good Ones event? You can always expect great people. Each person is hand picked for the individual event, so you are sure to meet lots of smart, interesting people. Conversations are always interesting – I always walk away from these events impressed. Who attends? Well, this isn’t your typical networking event (so leave your stack of business cards at home) – there are designers, community leaders, CEO’s, entertainers, students and people from the start up community (to name a few) – in a nutshell, movers and shakers!
Maddie Bergier of Reserve (left) and Malori Tinsley (right).
Feel nervous that you aren’t going to know anyone? Use it to your advantage! Since you don’t know anyone, think of this as your chance to make a great first impression! Put the best version of yourself out there! Show up on time – there are bound to be other first timers in the same boat – it’s easier to break the ice when everyone is arriving as opposed to showing up 30 minutes into the event (plus you want to maximize your lunch hour and meet as many great new people as you can).
Each Good Ones event has a dress code. Today’s was grey and white or edible red. Meghan Leary, business development manager at ACE Group (left) and Kristin Phelps of Caviar killed it!
Sunjay Agtey, advertising sales manager at Fiksu (left) and Shannyn De Arman (right).
Come with a great, positive energy – there is a great culture at Good Ones events, which is due to all the hard work that co-founders Carolyn Kim and Jennifer Brooke put into these events. Words that come to mind: friendly, outgoing, supportive, energetic, creative, accepting, exciting, interesting, intellectual, fashionable, happy.
Meghan Keaney Anderson from HubSpot (left) and Andrew Sobel, broker at Warren Residential (right).
Are all the events at lunch time? Afraid you won’t be able to get away from the office? No sweat! These lunch lounges are new – they also have events in the evening after work.
(Left to right) Nikki Marie, Lynne Viera, Farah Bernier.
So what else? Well at this event, Hint Water and Motto were beverage sponsors. Hint water is an unsweetened flavor water without calories, sweeteners and preservatives. Flavors include watermelon, blackberry, crisp apple and blood orange. Hint also makes a sparkling water called Hint Fizz that comes in flavors like grapefruit, blackberry and strawberry kiwi. Motto is a great sparkling matcha tea beverage created by Tom Olcott and Henry Crosby.
(Left to right) Chris Cuozzo, of Alton Lane; Carolyn Kim, co-founder of the Good Ones; Nada Milosavljevic, Founder and CEO of Sage Tonic; Christina Wang, Vice President of Strategy and Finance for the Marcus Samuelsson Group in New York City.
All events have featured guests that highlight some rockstars in the community. Chris Cuozzo started his own brand in 2009 known as Dressed by Christopher Cuozzo before joining Alton Lane in 2012.
Dr. Nada Milosavljevic is a board certified, Harvard trained physician who launched a start up, Sage Tonic, whose first product (launching in the spring of 2015) is a holistic solution to stress and anxiety.
Christina Wang manages the finances and helps build new restaurants for celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson. In addition she is the founder of SixTomatoes, a culinary consulting company focused on helping small to medium sized businesses reach their full potential.
For an invitation to future Good Ones events, sign up for a membership: http://thegoodones.co/membership/
Alton Lane
91 Newbury Street, Boston, MA
Scissors and Pie
225 Newbury Street, Boston, MA
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