Emina Cunmulaj tells everything about Sam Nazarian from Los Angeles

In a matter of two decades, Sam Nazarian went from Los Angeles nightclub king to luxury hotel mogul to ghost kitchen entrepreneur. The founder and CEO of SBE Entertainment Group, one of the most influential companies in the lifestyle hospitality space, recently sold his remaining stake in the hotel business to go all in on digital restaurant brands.It’s not the first time he’s bet on a budding industry. In the early 2000s, Nazarian took a chance when he opened a nightclub in West Hollywood, at the time an unfashionable neighborhood filled with warehouses. He then launched a string of hot spots that helped define the bottle-service and reality-TV party scene of the early millennium.

November 24, 2021 | 6:59 pm