This job was facilitated by a
direct EB-5 investment
Nikeia Scott
Shift Manager
Golden Chick
Restaurant
Lancaster, Tex.
After her family was displaced by
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Nikeia Scott
moved around the South, working a series
of “odd-jobs,” as she calls them. A few years
after the hurricane, her two sisters moved to the
Lancaster, Tex. area. She did not see them again
until 2009, when she moved there herself.
Her home was originally New Orleans, but she is
now firmly planted in Lancaster.
“Family is what brought me to Texas,” Scott said. “I
wanted to be clos er to them. I wanted them to know my
children, and I wanted to know their children.”
And it is her current job at Lancaster’s newly opened
Golden Chick restaurant that gives her the family-friendly
schedule and weekends off to do just that. After working
her “odd-jobs,” which included managing a warehouse and
selling life insurance, she sought out this specific job even
before the restaurant opened for business.
“I came to Golden Chick right when it opened,” Scott said.
“I did need work at the time, but I chose to come here because
I wanted to be part of something from the beginning.”
Starting from the beginning is exactly what Scott did. She
was hired as a cashier, but three months later she was promoted
to shift leader. She noted that she feels she is on the path to
further her career in this new position.
“With being promoted to shift manager, I see that there
is room for growth here, and I know that I will be rewarded
according to my work,” Scott said.
That room for growth was important to her, and it has been
her whole life. Scott said that she always strives to be “above
average” in everything she does, and she knows where that drive
to succeed can take her.
“I was a little surprised when I was promoted after just three
months,” she said. “But at the same time, I wasn’t.”
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Not wanting to take all the credit herself, Scott said her
success is a reflection of her customers’ satisfaction.
“The residents are very excited [about having the restaurant in
Lancaster], and I’m so glad to be a part of it from the beginning”
she said. Likewise, Scott likes being a part of her customers’ day
from the start, because “I can have an impact on their day, just
from the way that I treat them.”
That sense of being so close with her community goes a long
way with the people Scott interacts with.
“When people come back after they get great service here,
that is just icing on the cake,” Scott said. “I come here every day
and I love it.”
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