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Darlene Marcello
Vice President, Food & Beverage
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EDUCATION
Secondary English
Education, 1992, Our Lady of Holy Cross College
EXPERIENCE
Darlene has attained
nearly twenty years of valuable experience in both Food &
Beverage operations and project development through diverse
employment opportunities. During the time she was completing
her bachelors at Our Lady of Holy Cross, she simultaneously worked
as the Catering Director of Lenfants and La Louisianne, two fine
dining restaurants located in New Orleans, Louisiana. She then
ventured off into her first development project, Caddyshack Café
& Bar, where she developed the restaurants concept and later
served as both owner and operator. She worked as a consultant
in the opening of King Creole Restaurant & Catering in
Metairie, Louisiana and in 1998 was hired by Semolina Corporation
as Vice President of Operations with full responsibility of 35
restaurants. During this tenure, she worked with APEX group
and Metromedia group in Plano, Texas and throughout the United
States. She developed, built and operated Semolina’s
Bistro Italia. Darlene worked with Copeland’s Restaurant on
multiple concepts including Straya, Wrap n Roll, Wholly Makeral and
Copelands. She worked with renowned chefs such as Henri Davis
and Joe Savoy and consulted with Sal Siegel for a ciga hotel in
Milan, Italy. Darlene also consulted on a 14 million dollar
renovation of the Tchefuncta Country Club in Mandeville, Louisiana
as well as a bar program for Christine’s and Le Boom clubs in
Cancun, Mexico.
As Vice President of
Food & Beverage for HRI Lodging, she incorporates all of her
vast experience to oversee the daily operations of six hotels and
the development of three Seattle’s Best Coffee Cafes while
assisting in the development of all new
projects.
AFFILIATIONS
Advisory committee
member CHART Organization
Ambassador Saint
Tammany Chamber of Commerce
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