Known For
Schrager is best known for founding and expanding the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival, a Miami staple that has raised millions for local education and now spans multiple cities.
About
Schrager revolutionized a modest FIU wine tasting into the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival in 2002, growing it into a five-day extravaganza attracting 65,000 attendees and channeling over $40 million to the university's hospitality school while debuting its New York edition in 2008 to aid hunger relief causes. Before joining Southern Glazer's in 2000, he climbed from room service at InterContinental Hotels Group to vice president of food and beverage, highlighted by opening South Beach's pioneering Torpedo bar in 1988. In Miami, he drives corporate initiatives like the VolunCheers program and chairs the Pérez Art Museum Miami board, earning honors such as the Food Arts Silver Spoon and BizBash Hall of Fame induction. A Culinary Institute of America graduate, he contributes to Ocean Drive magazine and judges Forbes' 30 Under 30 food list.