It’s been about 30 years since Altu Tadesse opened Altu’s Ethiopian Cuisine in East Lansing.
Longtime staff have watched some customers grow from children to adults and as they get older, leave the East Lansing area and miss the convenient access to Ethiopian food.
When Altu’s nephew Gutu Lencha took over in 2023, he heard from some older customers in the Okemos area that they wished they could come in more often, but it was just too inconvenient…