Meet the CEO
Tilman J. Fertitta, Chairman, President and CEO of Landry's Inc.
There are many published articles about him, and these are just some of the best at describing his success as an entrepreneur, business leader, community leader and charitable leader and his company's success at promoting happiness and enjoyment of life.
Tilman Fertitta shares secrets to success with Forbes
Tilman Fertitta, chairman, president and CEO of Landry's Inc., says he's done buying up chains of 40-some restaurants. — Houston Business Journal, August 28, 2012
An Evening with Tilman Fertitta of Landry's Inc.
Tilman Fertitta, CEO of Landry's Inc., likes to sit down to a clean table when he orders his Grey Goose with soda on the rocks with two limes. — Houston Business Journal, August 16, 2012
The Deal Maker
Landry's CEO steps up acquisition engine to build hospitality empire. — Nation's Restaurant News, February 20, 2012
Savvy native son looks to recapture Isle's past
Fertitta resurrecting iconic Pleasure Pier built in 1943. — Houston Chronicle, January 29, 2012
The GOLD Standard
Tilman Fertitta's consummate marketing savvy will be in full force during the transformation process of Atlantic City's Golden Nugget. — Atlantic City Weekly, August 8-24, 2011
Restaurant tycoon Fertitta goes extra mile for friends
Intense loyalty seen after tragic Giffords shooting. For six months, he has been a giant in the background for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, quietly leveraging his power to help the couple rebound from devastation. — Houston Chronicle, July 27, 2011
Landry's CEO says patience is the key to making deals
Houston business titan Tilman Fertitta has long had his eye on national seafood chain McCormick & Schmick. But his effort to acquire the upscale eatery hasn't won a deal. Yet. — Houston Chronicle, June 3, 2011
The operator is in
Tilman Fertitta is all in. After more than two years of negotiations to take Houston-based Landry's Restaurants private and become the sole owner of the near-300-unit casual dining, hospitality, gaming and entertainment company, the deal finally got done in early October, 24 years after he was named company president and CEO. Fertitta says his passion is making deals and this was undoubtedly his biggest. — Seafood Business, January 2011
Fertitta finally lands the big one
Perched on the top floor of Landry's Restaurants Inc Galleria-area headquarters, Tilman Fertitta's cavernous office is packed with conference tables, mock-ups of furniture projects and an array of computer screens tuned to footage of the properties owned by the high-profile excutive. — Houston Business Journal, December 3-9, 2010
Having Words with Tilman Fertitta - Chairman and founder, Landry's Inc.
Tilman Fertitta, founder and chairman of Landry's Inc. of Houston, in October closed on a $1.4 billion deal that took the restaurant-hospitality company private. — National Restaurant News, October 25, 2010
It's now a table for one
When Tilman Fertitta took Landry's Restaurants public in 1993, the company had nine restaurants. Today it's an empire, with more than 200 restaurants, amusement venus, hotels and casinos. — Houston Chronicle, October 6, 2010
Golden Nugget opens $150 million, 500-room tower
Tower is the first to open in downtown Las Vegas in two decades. The Golden Nugget celebrated a milestone Monday for downtown Las Vegas. — Las Vegas Sun, November 2009
Landry's Takes a Gamble
A shark-filled aquarium, five restaurants, 1,300 blinking slot machines. At the Golden Nugget hotel and casino, Tilman Fertitta is in his element. — Houston Chronicle, December 2006
Fish & Chips
Landry's Restaurants is placing a $140 million bet on the casino industry after reaching a deal with the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. — Houston Chronicle, February 2005
White tigers settle in new home after Fertitta gets city's blessing
After extracting agreements from the city for a giant Ferris wheel and oversized signs, Landry's Inc. President and CEO Tilman Fertitta planned to bring a tiger and lion exhibit to downtown Houston. — Houston Business Journal, December 2004
Everything about Houston-based Landry's Restaurants is as big as the lone-star state it calls home
Big concepts, big promotions, big sales, big growth-all navigated by a big-living showman of a CEO. Just trying to keep up with the company's aggressive acquisitions and development plans makes one's head spin, from flashy "eatertainment" projects like the Downtown Aquarium in Houston — replete with a 90-foot Ferris wheel and kiddie train that chugs through a tunnel filled with sharks — to a hotel division with 1,000 rooms under ownership or development. — Restaurant Hospitality, September 2004
Fertittaville
The restaurant mogul has invested $150 million to help change the face of Galveston. Now critics warn that he wants to turn the island into Atlantic City. — Texas Monthly, July 2004
He Knows Development, and He Wants to Play in S.A.
A mixture of Walt Disney visionary and Barnum & Bailey circus ringmaster Tilman J. Fertitta, CEO of Landry's Restaurants, creates projects that stir controversy. — The San Antonio Express Business Section, April 18, 2004
Dine with the Fishes
New Opry Mills eatery employs 2,000 tank dwellers for entertainment — not eating. Enjoy the red snapper on your plate? Good. So did the shark next to you. After all, what's a tank full of fish for if a sharp-toothed mate can't pick one off every now and then? Welcome to Aquarium restaurant, where fish are friends and food. — The Tennessean Living Section, April 14, 2004
Landry's Towering Achievement
The City Council unanimously handed control of San Antonio's landmark Tower of the Americas to Houston's Landry's Inc. on Thursday, shutting out calls to keep the contract in local hands. The decision ends Tower Foods' 35-year run in the tower's revolving restaurant and gives it to Landry's until 2019. — The San Antonio Express, March 5, 2004
Where to Eat Now 2004
The year 2003 will be remembered in Houston as the year restaurant mogul Tilman Fertitta vacuumed up three of the city's most fashionable outposts — Pesce, La Griglia and Grotto — into his burgeoning empire. — Texas Monthly, February 2004
Landry's Enlarged Chain Portfolio Nets $1.1B in revenue for 2003
A strategy of aggressive acquisitions and expansion has catapulted Landry's Inc. into the rarified world of billion-dollar foodservice companies. Landry's which operates such concepts as Joe's Crab Shack, Landry's Seafood, Chart House, Saltgrass Steak House and Rainforest Cafe, reported net earning of $2.5 million, or 9 cents per diluted share, for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 21, compared with $4.6 million, or 16 cents a share, in fiscal 2002. — Nation's Restaurant News, February 23, 2004