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Morgan Plant

Vice President, Food & Beverage, Joie de Vivre Hospitality

Morgan Plant brings more than 20 years of experience in the restaurant and hotel industry to her role as vice president for food and beverage at Joie de Vivre. She first came to the company in 2004 to launch the food and beverage program at Americano Restaurant & Bar at the company's San Francisco flagship, Hotel Vitale. After a regional director of operations role, she moved into the position of Vice President in 2009 and helped launch the burgeoning Joie de Vivre restaurant collection, lending her operations savvy to implement creative, timely concepts for the brand's more than 20 boutique restaurant and lounges. Ms. Plant's background includes posts as general manager and corporate wine director of Mistral Restaurant and Avenir Restaurant Group, general manager of Blue Chalk Cafe's flagship property, and wine director for Kimpton's Red Star in Portland, Oregon. Ms. Plant also worked with the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company in both its Seattle and San Francisco locations. A trained and certified sommelier, she also oversees the beverage program at Joie de Vivre. Ms. Plant has a bachelor's of science in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine; a master's degree in Biology from San Jose State University; and has completed a post baccalaureate program in Psychobiology at Stanford University.

Ms. Plant can be contacted at 415-364-5401 or mplant@jdvhotels.com