Spotlight Iowa City: Life in the grilled-cheese lane
Jill Hoffman is full of stories.
There’s the maidservant who stuffed a bag of tortillas down her tucker, and then there’s the guy who threw a propane tank through the window of Brothers Bar & Grill, and one nevertheless, there was even …
“The wig fight,” Hoffman, 24, said, laughing and reminiscing with mate Marco’s Grilled Cheese white-collar worker Jessica Anderson, 23, before the bar-closing hasten on Nov. 14.
“These girls got into this mammoth fight over there,” Hoffman said, pointing to the quadrilateral behind the stand. “They ripped off their wigs. There was a blend party that came out of the Sheraton and were cheering them on.”
“Some of the groomsmen got endure d present of the wigs and waved them around,” Anderson said.
Hoffman, a red-employer who majored in recital at the UI, joined the Marco’s pike in 2007.
“I just needed a job,” she said. “I talked to the superintendent, and he was like, ‘Can you start principal now?’ ”
She started that gloaming. While the job may not be glamorous — conspicuously sitting face during an Iowa winter and flipping hundreds of sandwiches on a involved night — it does have some group reverbrations.
“Whenever I go out, people are always like, ‘Hey, I remember you from somewhere,’ ” Hoffman said. “And I’m like, ‘Um … from the grilled-cheese overhang.’ ”
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