Michael Whiteman

Michael Whiteman is president of Baum + Michael Whiteman International Restaurant Consultants. His company’s best known projects include master planning and operation of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, and all the restaurants in the New York World Trade Center. Mr. Whiteman works around the globe planning food and beverage services for clients such as the Raffles Hotel Group; creating the first food courts in Europe, Japan, and America; developing signature restaurants for Hotel Arts Barcelona, the Regent of Sydney, and the Beverly Wilshire hotel; and several fast food and casual dining chains. Among his current projects are five dining venues for a Starwood hotel in northern Punjab; a multi-story multi-restaurant building in New York; and creating food programming for a two-hotel, million square-foot mixed-use development in Mumbai. Mr. Whiteman was founding editor of Nation’s Restaurant News, now the industry’s most powerful trade publication. His works have been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, and Newsweek. (New York, NY)