Jimmy Gallagher is a veteran restaurateur with over seventeen years of experience in the Los Angeles hospitality industry. His experience includes launching and overseeing some of the most successful restaurants and bars in the city, as well as hiring and training aspiring entrepreneurs who would go on to open their own successful establishments throughout Southern California.

Jimmy currently serves as GM/Operations Manager for Fred 62, the highly successful 24-hour retro-chic diner located in the Los Feliz entertainment district. Jimmy was brought to Fred 62 in January of 2004 and charged with updating operating procedures and implement systems that would generate increased revenue. In his short time with the company, he has developed new inventory control systems; launched safety and human resources programs for staff training and development; trained a new management team; organized a complex accounting system; and increased revenues to an all-time high in the restaurant’s seven-year history.

Jimmy’s prior experience includes serving as General Manager of three Los Angeles nightclubs owned by Sean MacPherson. MacPherson is the restaurateur who is often credited for the revival of trendy urban nightspots for LA’s "in" crowd in the 80’s and 90’s with his now-legendary watering holes such as The Olive, Smalls K.O., Jones Hollywood, The Good Luck Bar, El Carmen Taqueria and Tequila Bar, Swingers, and Bar Marmont.

As General Manager of West Hollywood’s El Carmen Taqueria and Tequila Bar, Jimmy developed a tequila menu that was unprecedented. He secured premium tequilas from Mexico that were unheard of in the U.S. at the time. Jimmy developed a training program to educate his staff with tequila tasting classes conducted by top distributors in the industry. El Carmen’s unique selections became trendy with style-conscious LA consumers. As other restaurateurs and the media began to realize the popularity and profitability in tequila, imitators from coast to coast began creating tequila bars or added large selections of tequila to their menus. In 1998, Herrudura brought Jimmy to their facility in Jalisco, Mexico for a VIP reception to thank him for his contribution to their success in the United States.

During this time, Jimmy was also overseeing the Asian-themed Good Luck Bar at the intersection of Sunset, Hollywood and Hillhurst in the Los Feliz/Silverlake district, an area of Los Angeles that would undergo a cultural transformation and increased property value as Hollywood’s creative community flocked to the east side in the early 90s. Jimmy ran operations at the Good Luck Bar for seven years, during the height of its popularity.

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