Last year, Alexandria Mahoney, a twenty-16 UW-Oshkosh graduate, became one of the youngest Culver’s franchisees in the country at 28.
When asked why she chose to go that direction, Mahoney said: “It’s the hospitality part I like most, and at the corporate level, they really care about every franchisee.”
Mahoney was the first of her family to earn a college degree. She originally came to Oshkosh as an Education major.
After seeing opportunities to move up the ranks in a prior Culver’s job, she switched her major to business and never looked back.
She was a cross country and track and field athlete at Oshkosh.
Along with her studies, she points to those areas as testament to her work ethic that have allowed her to take on the franchisee role.
After graduating from Oshkosh, she worked for an insurance company for seven months, but it wasn’t the right fit for her.
She eventually found her home as a Culver’s franchisee.
Mahoney, now 29, is looking to take on another franchisee role.
A second Culvers will go up in Sun Prairie sometime in the year of 2022.
Mahoney and her associates, Jeff Liegel and Chad Stevenson, will take on that franchise as well.
