Max Hospitality has provided Greater Hartford with a bedrock of quality dining establishments for nearly three decades, including the popular Max Downtown restaurant in the center of the Capital City.
President and CEO Scott Smith and Vice President Steve Abrams have steered the 10-venue, 900-staff restaurant group through the bruising COVID-19 pandemic back to sales of about $60 million, topping pre-pandemic revenue.
Together, they lead a group of eight operating partners.
Max Hospitality sold a far-flung Florida restaurant in November and is now expanding once again, taking on a bar and events space in the iconic Goodwin Hotel in downtown Hartford. The company is also readying for the spring launch of a simulated golf lounge at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Abrams and Smith, in a recent interview, said Max Hospitality never seeks to expand for the sake of expansion. Instead, it waits for great opportunities and the right time to seize them.