Patina Restaurant Group

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Patina Restaurant Group is the nation’s leading multiconcept operator in the premium segments of the restaurant and food service industry. With over 65 years of experience, we are first and foremost restaurateurs, offering personalized service at our over 60 quality dining establishments, with over 5,500 associates servicing a broad base of customers at museums, performing arts centers, corporations, and premier catering operations across the nation. PRG manages over $300 million in revenue comprised of 70% restaurants and 30% catering operations.

PRG has perfected the art of creating destinations for premier clients. We are the partner of choice for select organizations with a vision — organizations like Disney, Rockefeller Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Metropolitan Opera House are just a few of our clients for whom, through close collaboration, we created true destinations for years to come. We pride ourselves as one of the most highly acclaimed catering programs in the nation, known for our genuine hospitality and fresh seasonal cuisine. We provide a complete range of services, including creative menu development, budget flexibility, and logistical planning. In addition to catering at any location, we are the exclusive caterer of many cultural centers, museums, and high-profile red-carpet events, such as the Emmy and Grammy awards.

Our management team is dedicated to understanding the goals and objectives of each of our clients to provide custom solutions. We are known for our high standards, maintained with continuous training in areas such as customer service, sustainability, culinary innovations, and sanitation and food safety.

we are first and foremost restaurateurs...

65+ YEARS

OF EXPERIENCE OFFERING PERSONALIZED SERVICE AT OUR OVER 60 QUALITY DINING ESTABLISHMENTS 5,500+

ASSOCIATES

SERVICING A BROAD BASE OF CUSTOMERS AT...

• MUSEUMS

• PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS

• CORPORATIONS

• PREMIER CATERING

OPERATIONS ACROSS

THE NATION$300

MILLION

IN REVENUE

70%

RESTAURANTS

30%

CATERING

Our East Coast operations were founded in 1948 and incorporated in 1965 under the name Restaurant Associates in New York City. Master chef Joachim Splichal founded the PRG business in 1989, with the opening of the renowned Los Angeles Times-four-star and Michelinstarred Patina Restaurant.

In 1998, our CEO Nick Valenti negotiated RA’s acquisition by Compass Group. This purchase was followed by RA’s acquisition of The Patina Group in 1999, which created the RA/Patina Group and began the enduring partnership of Nick Valenti and Joachim Splichal.

In 2006, Valenti and Splichal, together with majority partner Shidax USA Corporation, purchased from Compass the public dining venues to form today’s PRG. In early 2014, Shidax sold its majority ownership of PRG to Delaware North Corporation, one of the largest food service companies in the U.S.

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CULTURAL

We developed what became a revolutionary concept of taking a “highly successful restaurant company” and implementing our restaurant skills at our first performingarts center, Lincoln Center. Within two years of becoming responsible for all catering services throughout Lincoln Center — in addition to opening two new restaurants, an outdoor café, and a large bar in the lobby of Avery Fisher Hall — we were invited to take on similar tasks at other performing-arts centers throughout the United States. This foray into providing culinary services at performingarts centers led to more business, and in a short time we became the preferred provider for catering and concession services at cultural institutions such as The Museum of Natural History, The Metropolitan Opera, and the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center.

Of special note, PRG (when it was Restaurant Associates) was completely responsible for initiating, conceiving, and implementing an extensive foodservice program for the opening of Longwood Gardens, a 1,077-acre gardens on the former DuPont Estate in Kennett Square, PA. We were also named to conceive and create the first foodservice operation and the Native American Mitsitam Café for the National Museum of the American Indian, a Smithsonian institution in Washington, D.C.

Since the 1990s, we have also begun successful partnerships with several West Coast cultural centers, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the San Francisco War Memorial, and the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Driven by our unique history with a successful track record working within the best cultural institutions in the country, we believe we’ve earned the distinction of being experts in this business.

WALT DISNEY COMPANY

PRG has a long and successful relationship with the Walt Disney Company. Beginning 16 years ago in the Downtown Disney District of Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, PRG opened two restaurants — Catal and Naples. A third venue — Tortilla Jo’s — was opened three years later. Then in 2007, as a result of PRG’s outstanding performance in California, the company was named as Disney’s partner for the Italian Pavilion in EPCOT Center in Orlando, FL. Today, PRG is operating Morimoto Asia at Disney Springs, three venues in Florida at EPCOT Center, and five restaurants in Downtown Disney at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim.

RESTAURANTS

PRG is one of the country’s leading restaurant groups, with legendary restaurants in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Orlando, and New Jersey. In Manhattan, the company’s portfolio includes The Sea Grill, Rock Center Café, and the world-famous Ice Rink in Rockefeller Center; The Grand Tier at the Metropolitan Opera House; Café Centro, Naples 45, La Fonda del Sol, and Cucina in The MetLife building; Stella 34 in Macy’s; Brasserie 8 ½, and Nick & Stef’s Steakhouse in Madison Square Garden. In California, we have our flagship restaurant, PRG, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as Nick & Stef’s Steakhouse, Café Pinot, Kendall’s Brasserie, Leatherby’s Café Rouge, and Ray’s & Stark Bar at LACMA.

PATINA CATERING

What began as a few intimate dinners in the homes of our most loyal patrons developed into Patina Catering in 1992. From intimate dinners to corporate cocktail parties, wedding receptions, fashion receptions, charity galas and film premieres, Patina Catering has expertise in providing a range of services for any event, in any location, regardless of size, bringing Joachim Splichal’s signature cuisine and impeccable service to events across the country in private and landmark locations alike.

Patina Catering services also extend to the entertainment industry, including many film premieres and the annual Governor’s Ball for the Emmy Awards. Additionally, we are proud to both run restaurants/cafés and provide catering services in museums and cultural centers, including the Music Center and Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Descanso Gardens, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, and LACMA.