Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Dave Query, Chef and Owner, Big Red F Restaurant Group

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Kurtz Fargo LLP

Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS, and Kurtz Fargo LLP present Dave Query as our featured entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs Unplugged is a meeting place where faculty, students, and community members with technical backgrounds learn about and get involved in entrepreneurship. In particular, the program offers students, faculty and the Front Range startup community an opportunity to learn how a successful startup is created as well as an opportunity to network. Each Entrepreneurs Unplugged meeting features food, drink and – most importantly – an experienced entrepreneur to discuss his/her start-up experiences.

Dave QueryDave Query, Chef and Owner, Big Red F Restaurant Group
Dave Query grew up in Boulder and attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. After graduating, traveling and tasting his way through Europe, he lived and cooked in kitchens around the U.S. including in New Orleans, Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, Miami and northern Michigan, before he returned home to Boulder.

He was co-owner of the original Lick Skillet Café in Gold Hill, was the executive chef at Cliff Young’s Restaurant in Denver and was the chef-owner of Q’s Restaurant in the historic Hotel Boulderado all before he started The Big Red F Restaurant Group in 1994. The company is presently a collection of nine different concepts in locations throughout the Front Range.


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