Emery Whalen Has Nine Restaurants and One Big Mission
Some guests walk into a conversation and immediately make you feel like you've known them forever. Emery Whalen is one of those people.
Emery is the CEO and co-founder of QED Hospitality, a nine-restaurant group with locations across New Orleans, Nashville, and Kentucky that is doing something increasingly rare in the hospitality industry: Putting people first, actually meaning it, and building a business around that belief that has lasted a decade.
QED stands for "quod erat demonstrandum,” Latin for "Thus it has been proven." It's a punctuation mark at the end of a mathematical theorem, and…
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