https://kaffetid.com/people/ Recent content in People on Kaffetid Hugo -- 0.145.0 en-US Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kaffetid.com/people/sandra-kristiansen/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kaffetid.com/people/sandra-kristiansen/ <p><em><strong>Asian, Norwegian, single mum and entrepreneur — Sandra Kristiansen juggles a multitude of roles and identities. This is the story of how she built one of the most unique cafés and restaurants in Oslo.</strong></em></p> <p>When Luke Henderson and Sandra Kristiansen decided to name their restaurant &ldquo;The Little Pickle&rdquo;, no one realised he would be stuck so literally in this Shakespearean metaphor. By May 2021, they had worked together for four years, and they were about to open a restaurant of their own. It was a busy and stressful period: the Covid-19 pandemic, social distancing, vaccines, lockdowns — society at a complete standstill. Yet they still managed to find a good location, did all the renovations and carpentry themselves, while cooking cheap food they bought from the supermarket in a kitchen they were building up little by little. Those were also days of hope: they found talented people ready to come in and work, and this would be “a kitchen with a simple, flat hierarchy, where there is no shouting, no yelling, no ‘Yes, chef!’”, Kristiansen said.</p>