Orlando’s Rosen Centre Appoints New Head Chef
Award-Winning Hotel Names 30-Year Veteran to Lead Culinary Team

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ORLANDO (March 12, 2007) – Orlando’s award-winning Rosen Centre hotel, part of the largest independently owned hotel portfolio in Florida, now boasts a new award-winning Head Chef, 30-year culinary veteran Michael Rumplik. Phil Caronia, General Manager of the Rosen Centre, recently welcomed Rumplik to the Rosen family.

“With almost 30 years of experience, Mr. Rumplik is a great addition to the Rosen Centre team,” said Caronia. “He’s worked for some fantastic restaurants and some world-class hotels throughout the United States and Germany, and we’re looking forward to sharing his incredible talents with Rosen Centre guests.”

As Head Chef, Michael Rumplik will be responsible for overseeing all of the Rosen Centre restaurants, including the Everglades Restaurant and Café Gauguin as well as meals for convention guests. He also will oversee staffing and overall food presentation.

“Everyone in the Orlando hospitality business knows the Rosen name and its reputation for quality and guest service,” said Rumplik. “I’ve worked at many great hotels and restaurants, but working for Mr. Rosen and becoming Head Chef at Rosen Centre is truly a privilege.”

Before being named head chef of the Rosen Centre, Rumplik spent nearly eight years working as the executive chef at the Rainforest Café in Disney’s Animal Kingdom, where he helped develop new menus for the chains’ restaurants throughout the United States.

Prior to working for Rainforest Café, Rumplik honed his culinary expertise at restaurants and hotels in nine cities in the United States and Germany over the course of 22 years, including the Peabody Hotel in Orlando and Memphis, Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, Biltmore Plaza Hotel in Providence, R.I., and the AMFAC Hotel and Resort in Dallas.

Rumplik has received honors for both his culinary skills and his people skills — he won Meeting & Conventions Magazine Gold Platter award for Catered Food and Beverage for six consecutive years from 1992 to 1997, and was named Supervisor of the Year in 1983 by the AMFAC Hotel and Resort. Rumplik graduated from Johnson and Wales School of Culinary Arts in 1976.

The award-winning 1,334-room Rosen Centre sets a spectacular standard of hospitality, service and value. The hotel recently won Meeting & Convention’s Gold Platter and Gold Key awards, as well as Corporate & Incentive Travel 2006 Award of Excellence . Rising 24 stories, this premier hotel offers a highly respected professional staff and outstanding accommodations. Adjacent to the Orange County Convention Center, it is an ideal headquarters hotel that caters to virtually every meeting need of groups from 10 to 4,000. Rosen Centre combines impressive meeting capabilities with resort-style luxury in a world-class meeting and vacation destination.

Rosen Centre is at the center of Orlando’s famous theme parks, only 15 minutes from downtown Orlando, just a short stroll from the Pointe Orlando shopping, dining and entertainment complex, and only 12 minutes from Orlando International Airport. Guests of Rosen Centre enjoy six restaurants and lounges, as well as the Body & Sol Spa, a newly renovated fitness center featuring state-of-the-art equipment, a heated tropical pool and lighted tennis courts. For more information, visit www.rosencentre.com or call (800) 204-7234.