Richard Coraine Biography

Richard Coraine is the Chief Development Officer at Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), where he leads the Department of Business Development. In this role, Coraine has spearheaded the creation of a new generation of award-winning restaurants and groundbreaking ventures for the USHG family of businesses. His notable openings include Eleven Madison Park (which earned 4 stars in the New York Times), Blue Smoke, Shake Shack, Maialino, Untitled at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and most recently, North End Grill in Battery Park City. Before his current role, Coraine served as Chief Operations Officer at USHG, overseeing all operations and directly supervising executive chefs, general managers, and directors. He also trained the management teams of USHG restaurants to provide guests with the renowned cuisine and hospitality for which the group is known. Coraine joined USHG as a partner in 1996, following a decade of leadership with the Wolfgang Puck Group and the launch of his own restaurant, Hawthorne Lane, which he opened in San Francisco in 1995. He is a Boston native and holds an AOS in Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America and a degree from the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics. In 2009, Coraine co-founded Hospitality Quotient, a learning and consulting business that helps clients in diverse industries integrate hospitality into their technical service.

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