Google Sheets formula help - Filter maybe?

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Having trouble explaining the thing I need to happen

Here's an example of what I need:

AB
MexicanAlison
MexicanDavid
GreekJohn
GreekSam
GreekDavid
ChineseAlison
ChineseJohn
ItalianSam
ItalianJohn

Four employees each like different cuisines for lunch. Based on who comes into the office, I would like each cuisine to sort by if the employees both like that cuisine, it returns ONLY the lines for which all selected employees choose the cuisine.

So if INPUT = "Alison" and "John", I would like the only output to be:
ChineseAlison
ChineseJohn

I was using this
=FILTER(A1:B9,("Alison"=B2:B10)+("John"=B2:B10))
But this returns all options for both Alison and John, instead I'd like to compare the two outputs and only return values that overlap.

I hope this makes sense...
 

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Noting also that I will need to be able to add additional employees - so if Sam comes into the office it would be Alison, John, AND Sam's needing to overlap.
 
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