Global Cafe named a fastest-growing inner-city business
Ibtisam Salih from Sudan prepares food for the dinner rush at the Global Cafe in Crosstown Concourse Oct. 10, 2019. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Crosstown Concourse’s Global Cafe, where immigrant and refugee food entrepreneurs serve up authentic cuisine representing their home countries, is a 2023 Inner City 100 award winner.
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Global Café Sabine Langer small business Crosstown ConcourseAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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