A New York hospitality recruitment and placement agency is reaping the benefits of new hotel construction and restaurants across the country.
Steven Kamali, a New York-based restaurant consultant, launched The Chef Agency a year ago.
Kamali has been placing big-name chefs, and midlevel and top-tier executives, with hotel, casino and restaurant operators around the globe.
His latest New York deals are interesting — developing food and beverage concepts for the new Four Seasons on Church Street and the recently opened Diamond Horseshoe in Times Square, a dinner theater being revived by developer Aby Rosen.
Rosen is spending $23 million to revive the once-fabled nightclub and cabaret from the late 1930s and 1940s at the Paramount Hotel.
Those at the New Year’s Eve launch of the club’s show, “Queen of the Night” — before the official premiere in early February — included actress Bonnie Wright, artist Jennifer Rubell, director Diane Paulus, and actors Ian McKellen and Peter Gallagher.
Kamali just executed a string of high-profile management agreements with three yet-to-be-announced celebrity chefs on behalf of Starwood Capital Group for its new hotel brands under development.In The Chef Agency’s first year of business, the company completed more than 50 placements.