John Cooper is a consultant with over 15 years in the hospitality industry.
Cooper advises on Michelin dining experiences, builds award-winning cocktail lists, restaurant operations, and brewery operations.
Senior hospitality executive and leader with over 15 years of experience and 8+ years of progressive multi-unit management experience across Michelin-starred fine dining, luxury hospitality, and high-volume concepts in Chicago, New York, Miami, and Washington, DC.
Cooper is a Miami native working and opening restaurants From working at 50 Eggs, Beaker & Gray and Macchialina Taverna Rustica to national impact from Manhattan to Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Cooper consults on wine, restaurant openings, cocktail menus and setting up best-in-class staff operations.
Wine Advisory
Looking to take a trip through Italy via a wine tasting? Let Cooper enchant your senses with education Italy’s finest wines.
His 2025 summer favorites are:
G.D. Vajra, her wine “Kye,” which is a wine made from Fresia, an obscure grape from Piedmont that is used for blending. It has notes of dark plum, raspberry and wild herbs.
Elisabetta Foradori farms the region of Trentino-Alto Adige and grows many grapes one of which is Teroldego, a grape similar to syrah. It has notes of dark berries, chocolate and dried herbs.
Vigneti Massa: farms the area of Colli Tortonesi an area of Piedmont and specializes in grapes called Timorasso. He practices organic farming and is responsible for keeping this grape from going extinct in the 1980s. Tasting notes: minerality, honey and green tea.
Award-Winning Cocktail Menu Consultation
Cooper advises restaurants and cocktail bars with cocktail design, training, setup prep, costing, establishes and executes SOP’s around executing a tasty and cost-effective cocktail menu.
Food Tech Advising & Restaurant Operations
The combination of being an owner/operator, an exit and working most front of house positions, Cooper has excellent insight into how to go from “good to great.”
It was the first time that we've been approached to do any sort of collaboration [with MoMA]," says John Cooper, former head bartender at The Modern. John Cooper presented his creation to the Matisse family at a private dinner prior to the Henri Matisse Exhibit in the fall of 2022.- Food & Wine Magazine 2022
