Michael Whiteman
Senior Consultant, Food and Beverage

Michael Whiteman is president of the renowned restaurant consulting company Baum+Whiteman, responsible for creating the legendary Windows on the World, the magical Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, and five New York three-star restaurants.  His company created The Big Kitchen, the world’s first food court, along with the first food halls in Japan and Europe. His Equinox restaurant in Singapore was named one of the one world’s top ten hotel restaurants.  He has executed high-profile food and restaurant projects in India, Dubai, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Abu Dhabi, Bogota, and Taiwan as well as across the United States. 

His company has a deep background in parks, including consulting and master planning work for the Central Park Conservancy, the Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and Bryant Park.  A current project relates development of a new 25,000 square foot catering building in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park. A comprehensive project list can be found here.

He has worked with the industry’s most important chefs, architects and designers, and is known as the “dean of American restaurant consultants.”

He has three times been keynote speaker at the Culinary Institute of America’s food conferences, and has run trends seminars for Starwood Hotels, Taj Hotels, Les Dames d’Escoffier, International Council of Shopping Centers, Moscow’s Success Academy, Club Corporation of America, Angus Beef Growers, the Ferdinand Metz Foodservice Forum and twice in London for the Food & Drink Innovation Network.