About Hospitality Pro Search

THE COMPANY

Gary Turner and Geordy, longtime friends and business colleagues formed HPS in 2001. With more than 60 years of Hospitality operational management experience between them in all corners of the globe, the two spent most of their careers successfully sourcing, recruiting, qualifying, hiring and developing management and culinary professional for themselves. It was a natural transition to do the same for clients.

With regional offices in Houston, TX, Jacksonville, FL, and San Francisco, CA, Hospitality Pro Search can narrow and target the search both locally and regionally while taking advantage of a national network of professional contacts. We offer performance and results. For this reason, our services have become indispensable in the expansion of many leading restaurant & hospitality companies. Whether your needs are for a General Manager, Sous Chef, Controller, Director of Catering and beyond … we have recruiters in the specialized fields to fill your open positions.

At Hospitality Pro Search, we believe that many of the highly skilled individuals you seek currently hold key positions with other successful companies and are not actively pursuing a change in employment through traditional channels. Hospitality Pro Search can find these “Game-breakers” who can make a difference in your company. We recruit exclusively within the Hospitality Industry.

Hospitality Pro Search specializes in all levels of management recruiting for Country Clubs, Restaurants, Hotels & Resorts, Nightclubs and Casinos. We concentrate on finding, recruiting and presenting the most qualified candidates the old fashioned way, through personal relationships and professional contacts. We have an experienced team to help you get the job done. As an operator you have a million different priorities every day. At HPS all we do is research and identify the most qualified candidates for our clients. Our clients have enjoyed tremendous success through our ability to provide effective and thorough executive search services.

Hospitality Pro Search’s process of qualifying a candidate includes phone screening and face to face interviews when possible. If our clients wish, we will also conduct background checks, reference checks and credit checks. We learn as much as we can about the candidate and the candidate learns as much as he/she can about the client before we present their resume. HPS stands behind every candidate we submit, as each candidate is a direct reflection of our understanding of the client’s needs. It is our desire to work side by side with our clients to create a winning team of successful employees.

At some point in time in every operator’s career, they find themselves in need of a “Game-breaker” to take their business to the next level. We can help find the right person for the right position. If and when you find yourself in that situation, give us a call – we’ll make it happen.

THE PARTNERS

Gary Turner

Gary has spent his entire professional career in the Restaurant/Nightclub industry as an operator, multi-unit operator, concept designer and owner.

Gary’s passion for the Hospitality industry, and the professional relationships he has developed over the years, is the reason he formed HPS with Geordy and Amy. Gary began his career delivering pizza in college and immediately fell in love with the industry. Career highlights include: Opening Manager for Ruby Tuesday Restaurants, Opening Manager and Director of Operations for The Hard Rock Café, Vice President of Operations for Entertainment One Nightclub and Restaurant Management Company, McFadden Ventures. Gary is currently President of Tropical Development, a restaurant management company with properties in South Alabama.

As Gary spent most of his career recruiting, hiring and training managers, the transition HPS has been easy. With Gary’s ability to find the right candidate for the position, he is able to save the client time and money.

Geordy Murphy

From 1979 to 1983, Geordy was with Club Corporations of America, where he was responsible for opening the Plaza Club in Honolulu, and Canyon Creek Country Club. After CCA, Geordy took on the role of Director of Marketing and Management for Studebakers of America. Geordy then moved on to a new project of converting 3 seafood restaurants to Charlie Brown Prime Rib Restaurants. From 1987 until 1992, Geordy was General Manager of Kuleto’s, a Kimpton Group Hotel and Restaurant Management Company unit. Geordy lead a sales effort that more than tripled the company’s revenues in three years. He also built and opened Wolfgang Puck’s world acclaimed restaurant, Wolfgang Puck’s Postrio. In 1992 Geordy became the proprietor of Geordy’s Restaurant on San Francisco’s Union Square. Geordy’s was recognized as one of the “Ten Best New Restaurants of 1994” in the U.S.A. by Esquire Magazine, and as one of the “Four Best Restaurants in San Francisco” by the New York Times. From 1996 until 2000 Geordy acted as COO and co-founder of Long Life Noodle Company, a six store, $7.2 Million annual revenue restaurant chain.

Today, Geordy brings his vast wealth of experience to Hospitality Pro Search as a partner and co-founder.

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