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 As we prefer to say, Cead Mile
Failte or 100,000 Welcomes!
Established in 1995
in the vibrant downtown area of Santa
Cruz California,
Rosie McCann's Irish Pub and Restaurant has for nearly a decade, provided
great food, fine beverages, music, dancing, and a welcoming environment for
the whole community.
 Cead Mile Failte! 100,000
Welcomes! is not just a slogan at Rosie McCann's, it is the mission
statement. Throughout the world today the quintessential image of an Irish
Pub, whether it be in Dublin, Boston or Santa
Cruz, is a neighborhood place where people gather
to share good drink, great food and lots of cheer. The pub has always been
a place of camaraderie; a place where friends meet new friends - and old -
and Rosie McCann's exemplifies the best in Irish hospitality.
Mina took over as the
new owner of Rosie McCann's in 1997. She first began working part time in a
restaurant as a student in college. While working as a waitress she
developed a lifelong passion for the restaurant business. After graduating
from college Mina worked her way up the corporate ladder to become a
marketing executive with a fortune 500 company. During her marketing career
she was trained in Deming quality management principals that a decade later
she brought to the management of her own restaurant; the idea of empowering
employees to create a sense of ownership, bringing the best out of each
employee while investing their creative energy in the restaurant.
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About Santa Cruz
 Santa Cruz is the quintessential beach town. It was here
that Hawaiian royalty first introduced surfing to the mainland--and locals
and visitors alike have been riding the waves ever since.
 Not far from the surf break, calliope
music and laughter fills the air at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the
West Coast's last remaining seaside amusement park. A few blocks from the
beach is Santa Cruz's
newly renovated downtown. The pedestrian-friendly, tree-lined streets are
filled with vibrant shops and galleries, outdoor bistros and sidewalk
musicians - all in keeping with Surf City's offbeat personality.
Santa Cruz History
 For centuries, Santa Cruz industry
has been as diverse as it has been innovative. Santa Cruz County
is not only a tourist destination, but also a place of new inventions and
ideas which have been preserved through numerous natural disasters and
changing economic times.
 One of the earliest known
"industries" in Santa
Cruz was the exporting of abalone shells by the
Ohlone Indians. The mother-of-pearl shell was used for a variety of
objects, including fish hooks, jewelry and strings of indian currency, and
was so plentiful in the coastal waters that the Ohlones named their main
village Autinta, "Place of Red Abalone."
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