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The restaurateur who turned a Madison Square Park hot dog cart into a $1B-revenue public company also holds 28 James Beard Awards and wrote the hospitality philosophy textbook that reshaped service industries well beyond food.
Danny Meyer is the founder of Union Square Hospitality Group, which operates Gramercy Tavern, Union Square Cafe, and The Modern, and the founder of Shake Shack, the burger chain that grew from a Madison Square Park hot dog cart to a public company with over 500 locations and more than $1 billion in annual revenue.
Shake Shack went public in 2015 at a $1.6 billion valuation. He authored the bestseller Setting the Table.
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