Hotel Consultant Carl Bruggemeier

Hotel Consultant Carl A. Bruggemeier / Food and Beverage

Carl brings his thirty-five plus years of F&B Experience in the Hospitality Industry to Strato Hotel Consultants. Mr. Bruggemeier is a highly-skilled Corporate Executive, an Entrepreneur, a Culinarian and a practitioner of Economics. In the course of his career he has directed several high profile restaurants including Tavern on the Green (New York), Potomac (Washington, D.C.), Commander’s Palace (New Orleans), The Phoenix (Cincinnati) and Norman’s at The Ritz-Carlton, Grande Lakes (Orlando).

Mr. Bruggemeier a capable full-service provider of concepting, re-concepting, design and development assistance to the Hospitality and Retail Industries. Carl also focuses on highly targeted projects for its clients in the areas of: product development, leadership and staff training, targeted marketing, menu engineering and financial analysis. He is sought after by companies of all types for its wealth of expertise in the area of Lifestyle Adaptation based on intra-demographic change. Focusing on concept development, training and customers’ expectations, Carl grows sales and profits for Strato’s Customers.

During the 1990’s Mr. Bruggemeier was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of “Ciao Cucina Corporation”, a multi-unit publicly traded (NASDAQ) Restaurant Company, which he founded.

As a developer and industry consultant he has completed over $250 Million of total restaurant and retail design, construction and development. Conceiving and building new Hospitality and Retail Concepts is one of the hallmarks of Mr. Bruggemeier’s career. Over 50 new and exciting restaurants and retail stores have been brought to life during the thirty-five years of his career.

From a human resource perspective, Mr. Bruggemeier has had a leadership role in training or developing over 35,000 management and staff employees. Fortune 500 companies, colleges and universities and industry and trade associations routinely ask Mr. Bruggemeier to speak to their groups on a variety of topics including effective communication, leadership, motivation, sales and marketing, re-concepting the entire business, and human resource development.

Mr. Bruggemeier’s media and on-air credits include “The Great Chefs Series” (PBS), “Panorama” (FOX), “The Today Show” (NBC), and “Carl Bruggemeier’s Food For Thought” (syndicated by Multimedia Entertainment). Mr. Bruggemeier is the recipient of numerous industry awards including the Hall of Fame Fine Dining Award, The Ivy Award, and the “Esquire Best New Restaurant in America Award”.

Awards

Hall of Fame Fine Dining Award presented by Nation’s Restaurant News
Playboy Critics Award
Ivy Award presented by Restaurants and Institutions Magazine
Mobil Guide Four Star Award
Travel/Holiday Award
Business Executives Excellence in Fine Dining Award
Gualt/Millau – Best Restaurants in America Guide
Esquire Magazine “Outstanding New Restaurant in America”
James Beards Foundation “Outstanding New Restaurant in America”

Guest Lecturer

The American Cuisine Symposium Florida State University
The California Wine Festival The University of New Orleans
National Restaurant Association Convention The University of Houston
Club Managers of American National Conference Syracuse University
Michigan State University International Foods Conference

Media and On –Air Performances

P.B.S. New Orleans “The Great Chefs of New Orleans”
P.B.S. Houston “The Warner Roberts Show”
PM Magazine New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, Washington, D.C
Fox Television “Panorama” New York and Washington, D.C
Channel 2 (NBC) Houston, “The Five O’clock Report”
Channel 4 (NBC) Detroit “Live at Five”
BBC Television & Radio London, England
CBS Morning News
Two Wine and Food Show pilots for syndicated sale to cable television
Paramount Pictures – “Terms of Endearment” – Winner Best Picture Academy Award
Contributing Writer for Restaurant Business, Restaurant Hospitality and Restaurants and Institutions
NBC Multimedia, Inc., Carl Bruggemeier’s “Food for Thought,” syndicated news insert on food and life –style – over 500 shows – two and one half minute news inserts
NBC Today Show – Cooking with the Hosts

Premier Dining Events

The American Cuisine Symposium
Gualt/Millau National Restaurant Tour
Nation’s Restaurant news MUFSO Conference
New Orleans “La Fete” Food and Wine Festival (co-hosted w/Robert Mondavi)
The National Republican Governor’s Conference
The First National Aids Benefit (co-hosted by former President Ronald and Nancy Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor)
State Dinners for: The Prime Minister of Israel, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, the Royal Family of England, the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of the Peoples Republic of China.
U.S. World-Wide Art Embassies Program (co-hosted by former Secretary of State, George Schulz and Mrs. Walter Annenberg)
Major League Baseball All-Star Gala for 2500 guests
City of Cincinnati Bicentennial Birthday Gala for 3500 guests

Expertise:

· Food and Beverage Enterprise Assessments
· Development of Standard Operating Procedures
· Menu engineering
· F&B Training in all departments
· Implementation of retention programs
· Design coordination
· Determination of concept
· Pro-forma creation
· Creation and implementation of marketing and promotional programs
· Production of food and life-style oriented television programs
· Book development, publication and marketing