@kelleyjoneshospitality | Kelley Jones is the founding partner of Hospitality Alliance and principal of Kelley Jones Hospitality with offices in New York City, Dallas and Las Vegas. Kelley is the host of Vegas Restaurant Rehab featured on the Food Network. His ventures include the Mayfair Hotel in Los Angeles and the Intercontinental Hotel in Bellevue Washington, The Dapper Doughnut and Thunderbird Lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kelley and his Hospitality Alliance partners are creating, curating and operating Food Halls in Dallas, Ft. Worth, Colorado, Napa, and Las Vegas. Jones instructs the culture and leadership training for all managers and team members for the Madison Square Garden Company at their venues including LA Forum, Chicago Theater, Beacon Theater, MSG and Radio City Music Hall. He trains teams at Newark Airport for OTG Management and Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX for Westfield. Jones launched Gaku Ramen, loosely translated in Japanese to “educated noodle”, in Burlington Vermont and Boulder Colorado with a planned expansion into college towns across North America.

Previously, Jones opened Hops & Harvest with James Beard award winning partner Bradley Ogden, an American farm to table comfort food concept. He also partnered with Top Chef Angelo Sosa on Poppy Den an Asian gastro-pup and retained Sosa as his culinary consultant at The Malibu Inn on Malibu Beach, California. He partnered with Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian at Tudor House and HIGHBAR at The dream Hotel on Miami’s South Beach and opened Todd English Pub as managing partner in Las Vegas. He created Suite & Tender at the Se Hotel in San Diego and Eden on Miami’s South Beach, both with Michelin 2 Star Chef Christopher Lee.

Jones has been on the opening executive teams of some of the country’s leading hotel brands including The Monaco Washington DC, Hudson New York, Clift San Francisco, Argonaut San Francisco, and Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino Las Vegas. Jones has managed the operating teams of eight of the top 100 highest grossing restaurants in the country and has led the opening teams of five of the top 100 highest grossing restaurants in the United States. Jones held senior executive level positions with three of the top 75 multi-concept restaurant operators in the country (#’s 3,7 and 15) as ranked by Restaurant & Institutions Magazine.