CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
INDUSTRY: Hospitality
COMPANY: Wolfgang Puck
WHAT MAKES HIM HAUTE: This Austrian-born restaurateur and celebrity chef has built a culinary empire that includes fine dining establishments, franchise restaurants, catering, cookbooks, and other culinary products. His flagship restaurant, Spago, is still the go-to establishment for Hollywood’s elite. In April, he opened the highly anticipated WP24 by Wolfgang Puck at the new Ritz-Carlton hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
