ABOUT CREATE HOSPITALITY

 

Create Hospitality is a first of it’s kind agency that bridges the gap between brands and hospitality. Founded in 2017 by hospitality expert & event producer Lauren Koeppe and brand communications & marketing executive Page Jeter, Create Hospitality specializes in brand marketing, experiential, events, catering, hospitality consulting, branding and operations. The team is passionate about creating memorable experiences through experiential, brand storytelling, food & beverage, hospitality and more.

 
 
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Our Story

Create Hospitality is a first of it’s kind agency that bridges the gap between brands and hospitality. Founders, Lauren Koeppe, hospitality expert & developer, and Page Jeter, brand communications & marketing executive, had accomplished about everything they could in their respective fields before seeing a huge opportunity and coming together to offer a unique approach to both hospitality and brand clients. The hospitality industry needed people who understand both creative and operations, including how restaurants work from every single position, and who also understand brands, brand storytelling and events. At the same time, brands were so often in desperate need of culinary direction and a hospitality lens, especially where they interact with consumers at events.

Create Hospitality specializes in 3 main areas: hospitality consulting, branding & operations; marketing, experiential & communications for brands and hospitality; and events & catering. We are passionate about creating memorable experiences through experiential, events, hospitality, new restaurant concepts, food & beverage, culture and more. We are uniquely comprised of both creatives and operations experts who live for travel, music, food & beverage and culture, and we see everything through an experiential and PR lens. Our team members live and breathe hospitality and food through and through, with 20+ of experience in world-renowned restaurants in Los Angeles, New York City and Miami, working their way up, in every position, as well as higher education in food studies and private chef-ing for celebrities. We know all things front of house to back of house, elite service and guest experience, and we bring this to everything we do, from rescuing restaurants or creating brand new concepts to executing brand activations. Our catering team runs like a world-class restaurant, and our clients see the difference. We also specialize in communications and marketing for hospitality and brands, with 15+ years of experience representing global consumer brands, including CPG, beer, wine and spirits, as well as hospitality venues. There’s never been one team like this before, making Create Hospitality is a one stop shop for hospitality, brands, events and everywhere they intersect.

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Co-Founder & CEO Lauren Koeppe

Lauren Koeppe, CEO & co-founder of Create Hospitality, is a hospitality expert, restaurant developer, event producer and celebrity chef. Lauren founded Create Hospitality in Los Angeles in 2017 with the purpose of creating memorable experiences through new restaurant concepts, food & beverage, branding, operations, catering and events.

With a unique background combining restaurant management and event production as well as creative skills, coupled with her passion for food, wellness and travel, Lauren has truly a unique expertise she offers a range of clients. The hospitality side of Create Hospitality is both creative and operationally-driven via new concept development, openings, re-openings, events, pop ups, F&B development, branding, marketing, social media, operations, hiring, training and financials. Since starting her own company, Lauren has worked with the best hotels, restaurants, bars and social clubs in Los Angeles, Scottsdale and Miami, including Four Seasons, Mondrian Hotel, Rustic Canyon Group (Rustic Canyon, Cassia, Milo + Olive, Esters Wine Bar, Huckleberry, Sweet Rose Creamery), Love Serve Remember (Cafe Gratitude, Gracias Madre), Celebrity Chef Curtis Stone (Gwen), Élephante, The Pier House, Cartolina, Santé and Thunderbird. On the brand side, she has done marketing, experiential and events for William Grant & Sons (Glenfiddich), Proximo Spirits (Stranahan’s Whiskey, Hangar 1 Vodka) Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits (Gray Whale Gin, Josh Cellars, Redemption Whiskey, Bib & Tucker Bourbon & more), Jordan Winery & Vineyard, Stella Artois, BON V!V Spiked Seltzer, Estrella Jalisco, Nestle, Munchkin, WeWork, Vice, Bumble, Caruso (The Grove), The Beverly Center, NBA and the Cleveland Cavaliers, providing their pre & post game meals around the country.

Lauren got her Bachelor’s Degree in Dance from the University of Colorado Boulder and her Master’s Degree in Food Studies from New York University. Lauren began her career in management at world class restaurants, including The Standard on the New York City High Line, Hakkasan in the Fontainebleau Miami Beach and Hinoki & the Bird in LA. She later transitioned into Events Director roles at several of LA’s most popular restaurant/bars including E.P. & L.P., followed by creating, branding and launching catering companies for celebrity chefs Antonia Lofaso and Curtis Stone. She also co-founded the international yoga school and retreat company, YogaKoh, with celebrity trainer, Jolie Manza. Lauren has been quoted in Eater, Thrillist, Men’s Journal, The Zoe Report and Reader’s Digest as well as interviewed on KTLA and NBC.

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Co-Founder Page Jeter

Page Jeter, co-founder of Create Hospitality and founder of Create Entertainment, is a brand communications and marketing executive. She spent the first 15 years of her career at several of the biggest, award-winning marketing agencies in the entertainment industry, Rogers & Cowan and PMK BNC, working on Fortune 500 and other global consumer brands, primarily in entertainment, lifestyle, music, art, TV/film, food & beverage, hospitality/nightlife, fashion and tech. She has led Samsung, American Express, Budweiser, AT&T, Coca Cola, Sonos, Coach, Oakley, 20th Century Fox and many more clients to cultural phenomena, award-winning campaigns and legendary events. She always has a presence at the Oscars, Grammys, Super Bowl, Coachella, SXSW, Lollapalooza, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Art Basel and New York Fashion Week.

She co-founded Create Hospitality to fill the much needed gap between brands and hospitality with her partner Lauren. Together, they focus on creating memorable experiences. In 2017, she also joined forces with celebrity trainer/yoga extraordinaire, Jolie Manza, to create YogaKoh, the international Yoga Alliance-certified school and yoga retreat company that hosts yoga teacher trainings, retreats and workshops in Bali, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Mexico and Montana. In 2020, she founded Create Entertainment, a creative communications, marketing and consulting agency, to continue all of the work she does with big brands. Page also consults for music labels Loma Vista Recordings and Concord on artists such as St. Vincent, Rhye and Sylvan Esso.

Client experience includes:

  • Consumer/Tech: Samsung, American Express, Resy, YouTube, Audi, AT&T, Motorola, T-Mobile, Fanaply (NFTs)

  • Beverage: Coca Cola, Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser, Stella Artois, Michelob Ultra, Estrella Jalisco, BON V!V Spiked Seltzer), Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits (Josh Cellars, Beau Joie, Gray Whale Gin, Redemption Whiskey, Bib & Tucker Bourbon, The Calling), Jordan Winery & Vineyard, Ketel One, Skinnygirl Cocktails, Pabst Brewing Co., Ocho Tequila, Kubler Absinthe, Right Gin, DeLeon Tequila, Sobieski Vodka, Mezcal El Silencio, TY KU, BioSteel

  • Hospitality: Gjelina Group (Gjelina, Gjusta, Valle), Marquee Nightclub & Dayclub at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, h.wood, Las Palmas, Tea Room, Hemingway's, Roxbury, The Pier House, Cartolina

  • Music: Sonos, VEVO, SoundCloud, Serato, Rdio, Goldenvoice, Coachella, LA Philharmonic, V-MODA

  • Food: General Mills, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Lucky Charms, Wheaties, Off The Menu, Chefdance

  • Fashion, Fitness & Beauty: Coach, Fred Segal, Asics, Oakley, Official League, Universal Standard, Fashion Nova, Maven Beauty, OnePiece, MAC, Fake Bake, Aerrem, Flaunt the Vote

  • TV, Film & Entertainment/Media: DIRECTV, WarnerMedia, 20th Century Fox (The Simpsons, Sons of Anarchy, Family Guy, Alien, Avatar, Ice Age, Modern Family), Variety, SpinMedia, TBS’ Wipeout, CBS’ The Price Is Right, Thirteenth Floor Entertainment

  • Sports & Gaming: Super Bowl, MLB Opening Day, PGA Tour, NASCAR, Activision, Ubisoft, Wild Wild West League, Portland Pickles, Cleburne Railroaders

  • Cannabis: Canopy Growth, People’s DTLA, Highway Cannabis

  • Talent: St. Vincent, Rhye, Sylvan Esso, Rob Dyrdek, Metro Station, Jess King (Peloton)