F&B LA 2019

Nancy Vrankovic
Operating Partner
Sausel El Segundo


NANCY VRANKOVIC began her career as a teenager in her family’s Arizona restaurants, bussing tables to make gas money. What began as an after school job blossomed into a career that had her managing a restaurant while attending the University of Arizona. She would later learn the hotel business at the Westin La Paloma, where she worked her way up from Front Desk Management to Catering Sales Manager. She moved to Los Angeles after she fell in love with Manhattan Beach while visiting friends and has lived in the community ever since. In 2010, she began work as Director of Catering and Special Events with Simms Restaurants. This was the perfect opportunity to combine the things she loves most –hospitality and guest services– with a chance to do something she’d never done before: build a business from the ground up. She left Simms as Director of Marketing and PR in 2016 to team up with Chef Anne Conness at Sausal restaurant in El Segundo. Once again partnering with Anne, Nancy is energized by the opportunity to bring Jaffa to the 3rd Street community. Indeed community has long been central to Nancy’s life, serving on the Board of Directors for the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce, and the Chair of the Board in 2014-15. Currently, Nancy serves as a member of the Neptunian Woman’s Club of Manhattan Beach, working with the club to provide scholarships to young women in need and producing the South Bay Chili Cook Off every year to benefit the Manhattan Beach firefighter’s Burn Foundation.

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