A graduate of Cornell University, Larry Stuart holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Hotel & Restaurant Administration and has more than 30 years of experience in the field of hospitality management, restaurant operations and marketing. As President & CEO of Larry Stuart Hospitality (LSH), his expertise includes the design, development, start-up and management of food and beverage operations for the Loews Hotels at Universal Studios Florida (Portofino Bay Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel and Royal Pacific Resort). Prior to joining Loews Hotels, Larry was a director in designing, development, opening and operating 12 restaurants producing $40+ million in annual revenues at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort. LSH facilitated projects that included Finn’s Grill at the Hilton at Walt Disney World, Park Plaza Gardens, Manuel’s on the 28th, Hue, the NASCAR license for their Café proliferation to include Universal’s CityWalk. The company has been successful at improving the profitability of more than 100 food service operations throughout the U.S. and Caribbean. He also serves as customer service specialist for Spirit & Southwest Airlines, Peabody Hotel and MotorCity Casino Hotel. Larry has held a five-year professorship at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida and also supports extended credit hour courses for Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His teaching expertise encompasses innovative business strategies, service delivery and execution, and entrepreneurial hospitality finance. Continuing his mission to educate he is currently the President of the Cornell Hotel Society here in Central Florida. His ability to visualize, build and execute the service delivery process to exceed guest expectations has created professional partnerships in successful businesses entities including: Wyland Galleries of Florida (five-unit gallery chain - $8M/annually) and The Downtown Orlando Embassy Suites food service operation ($3M/annually). Larry is involved with clients such as MotorCity Casino Hotel, Dick Clark American Bandstand Hotel & Restaurants, Lavazza Café, Living Provence and Caldo Trattoria & Enoteca. When it comes to creative restaurant design, optimizing efficient operations through management, implementing quality service standards/training, marketing strategies and execution, Larry Stuart Hospitality holds the key ingredients to build products built to last through proven positive results. Titles The Spirit of Hospitality Navigating Profitability in the New Economy An Idea is Worth a Buck; Making it Happen is Worth a Million! Genuine Guest Service Excellence Service Details and Execution Why in the World Do You Want to Be in the Restaurant Business? Are you a Leader? Testing the Leader? Measuring the Leader! Team Building ~ Reinforcing Culture, Mission and Individual Spirit Brand Marketing Process & Basics Winning is not a Sometimes Thing! Topics Business, Customer Service, Celebrity, Leadership, Human resource, Branding, Marketing, Team Building, Motivation, Management Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $7,500 - $9,999 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State FL Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.