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Dream Jobs: Restaurant E-Impresario

Dream Jobs: Restaurant E-Impresario

By Chance Seales

By Chance Seales
July 19, 2018

July 19, 2018

Mary Kong-Devito helps restaurants create their online persona in a social media-dominant world.

SHOW TRANSCRIPT

Mary Kong-Devito sold her first blog to a company in LA years ago. She used those connections to kick-start a career helping restaurants brand themselves in an evolving online world.

She shows Newsy's Chance Seales around her dream job.

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