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Carl Georigi
Platinum Dining Group
FOOD & BEVERAGE
Carl Georigi, the founder and CEO of
the Platinum Dining Group behind
six restaurants like Capers & Lemons
and Taverna, a catering company and
retail market, loves the small town
feel of Delaware, where his role has
him overseeing development, new
opportunities and daily operations
for the full-service hospitality group.
Georigi, who founded his fi rst
restaurant in 1996 alongside his wife,
Lisa, believes in slowing down and
enjoying the moment, even while
keeping fresh the rustic Italian and
Mexican food off erings of Platinum’s
businesses.
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Scott Kammerer
SoDel Concepts
Since taking over SoDel Concepts as
CEO in 2014, Scott Kammerer — who
worked for the restaurant group
long before that with his late mentor
Matt Haley — has focused on the
future development of SoDel, the
largest restaurant group in Delaware
employing more than 1,000 people.
Overseeing that momentum is no easy
feat: SoDel now includes 22 business
operations, with 18 coastal Delaware
restaurants, three sports concessions
and a wedding-and-events venue. He’s
also become a major philanthropist,
with SoDel Cares donating more than
$100,000 annually to local causes.
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Jeffrey Gosnear
Grotto Pizza
Th ere are few things more iconically
Delaware than the special blend
and swirl of cheeses on slices from
Grotto Pizza. Today, Jeff rey Gosnear
leads the charge in overseeing 23
restaurants and commercial real
estate holdings in Delaware, Maryland
and Pennsylvania as the business’s
president. Over his more than 15 years
with the company, Grotto has opened
a centralized commissary in Dover,
seven new Delaware locations and
four restaurants in Maryland. He will
oversee the development of a new
Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk hotel and
Grotto location as well.
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Chris Kenny
Kenny Family ShopRites
of Delaware
For over 25 years, Chris Kenny has
led multiple ShopRite supermarkets
in Delaware, which now generate
an estimated $300 million in annual
revenue and employ roughly 950
people. In addition to serving as
president and CEO of his multi-
generational family business, Kenny
has served on over a dozen local
nonprofi t boards, including Goodwill
of Delaware, and is actively involved
in community groups such as the St.
Th omas More Society of the Catholic
Diocese of Wilmington. He’s also been
active in politics and media, founding
the advocacy group A Better Delaware
and the Delaware Live news outlet.
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