Friends with Benefits: Steven Geddes at Resorts World Las Vegas

When it comes to the food and beverage industry, you might not meet a more immersed and successful person than Steven Geddes. Today, Geddes is the vice president of food and beverage for Carver Road Hospitality, which operates the popular Resorts World Las Vegas steakhouse, Carversteak. “This (job) is the crowning glory of my 45 years of hard work in all departments,” he says. “Using all my wisdom and skill set and knowledge, it’ll keep me busy and challenged.”

Geddes has helped open some of the most well-known restaurants in Las Vegas, working both front and back of house, and he’s also helped launch restaurants in Miami, New York, Seattle, Kentucky, L.A. and San Francisco.

“I’ve always believed that our business is about the art of gastronomy,” Geddes says. “A chef, a sommelier, bartender, manager, barback, server, dishwasher—it’s not just food, or beverage, or service, or ambience … it’s all of it.”

Geddes has worked as a chef, he’s a certified sommelier, he’s worked behind the bar and as a server out on the floor, he’s been a dishwasher and a restaurant manager, and he created the wine program at Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits in Las Vegas—there’s really nothing this man hasn’t done in the industry.

“The thing I’m most proud of is I have many different viewpoints,” he says. “It’s not just coming from one angle. It comes from all the different skill sets that I’ve learned and acquired, and it allows me to look at a problem from more than one angle, and that is one of my biggest superpowers—to be able to talk with chefs, bartenders, servers, and understand what’s going on.”