Hailing from Asheville, NC. The Vista’s General Manager, Adam Hester has worked for two restaurant groups over the past 24 years before joining the Rick Erwin’s team at The Vista.
Adam has been a natural party planner from a young age and loves hosting groups and planning for amazing experiences, with a little bit of improvisation along the way. “In this business,” Hester says, “I get to throw a party every night. When it comes to being a manager he enjoys the orchestration of the team coming together under one purpose, one mission, and succeeding in ways together that they could never do on their own. At the The Vista, Adam’s goal is to blur the lines between being at home, and being in your favorite restaurant. Familiarity, comfort, and consistency are all essential values to how he leads.

Greenville native, Chef Crawford Campbell has recently been named the Executive Chef of The Vista. Before his position as Executive Chef at The Vista, he worked as a chef at Rick Erwin’s Eastside. Chef Crawford initially found his love of cooking during college. Over the last 30 years of working in the industry, he’s worked at the original 858 in the late 90’s then bought it in 1998 to reopen as 18 E North. In 2000, he moved to Hilton Head, South Carolina and worked as the Executive Chef at the SC Yacht Club. He was voted People’s Choice top chef in ’98 in the upstate. He also was a winner of the Hilton Head Seafood Festival Iron Chef. Chef Crawford has been with Rick Erwin’s since March of this year and enjoys the creativity and personal interactions with happy customers at Rick Erwin’s.