Benjamin Berg is the founder and CEO of Berg Hospitality Group, the team behind B&B Butchers and more than a dozen restaurant concepts across Texas. Ben started out as a bellman at the Lake Placid Lodge, worked his way through fine dining in Las Vegas, Mexico City, and New York, earned his master’s at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, and spent over five years at Smith & Wollensky before striking out on his own. In 2015, Ben opened B&B Butchers in Houston with $1.7 million...
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Benjamin Berg is the founder and CEO of Berg Hospitality Group, the team behind B&B Butchers and more than a dozen restaurant concepts across Texas. Ben started out as a bellman at the Lake Placid Lodge, worked his way through fine dining in Las Vegas, Mexico City, and New York, earned his master’s at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, and spent over five years at Smith & Wollensky before striking out on his own. In 2015, Ben opened B&B Butchers in Houston with $1.7 million...
Building Jonny's Pizza in NYC at just 24 years old with Jonny Rashtian
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Building Jonny's Pizza in NYC at just 24 years old with Jonny Rashtian
Jonny thought he was headed for a JD/MBA and a career in tech. Instead, a chance encounter with the founder of 7th Street Burger pulled him into the restaurant world. He hustled through cashier shifts, shadowed build-outs, and cycled through ice cream shops like Cafe Panna and il laboratorio del gelato before landing in the pizza game. In June 2024, at just 24 years old, he opened Jonny’s Pizza on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side. The buildout cost $250–300K, with a $16.5K/month lease, a...
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Benjamin Berg is the founder and CEO of Berg Hospitality Group, the team behind B&B Butchers and more than a dozen restaurant concepts across Texas. Ben started out as a bellman at the Lake Placid Lodge, worked his way through fine dining in Las Vegas, Mexico City, and New York, earned his master’s at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, and spent over five years at Smith & Wollensky before striking out on his own. In 2015, Ben opened B&B Butchers in Houston with $1.7 million...
