Justin Amick and William Stallworth are the owners of Painted Hospitality, an Atlanta based company that creates and operates one of a kind entertainment driven concepts, bars, and restaurants. Amick oversees all operations and Stallworth oversees the private events. Their first concept is The Painted Pin, an upscale boutique bar, bowling, and entertainment venue with 20 full service lanes in an industrial warehouse space in Buckhead. Their most recent is The Painted Duck, a distinguished drinkery, duckpin bowling, and gaming parlour on Atlanta’s Westside. Among their many accolades, Amick and Stallworth were recently named the “Buckhead Entrepreneurs of the Year” by the Buckhead Business Association, while The Painted Pin was named “One of the 50 Coolest New Businesses in America” by Business Insider.
JUSTIN AMICK
PRESIDENT/CEO, PAINTED HOSPITALITY
Amick was raised in the hospitality business via his family’s restaurant group, the acclaimed Concentrics Restaurants. After graduation from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business (2004), Amick moved to New York City where he worked for Chef Tom Colicchio’s CRAFT Restaurant’s Management Training Program. Next, he moved to Napa Valley where he worked for the Trinchero Family Estates’ winemaking team. Amick then re-located back to Atlanta where he joined his family’s business, Concentrics Restaurants. Here, he managed TWO urban licks, became the General Manager and Beverage Director for PARISH Foods & Goods, and served as the General Manager and Advanced Sommelier of Chef Richard Blais’ The Spence. Furthermore, he has a heavy hand in developing beverage programs for Concentrics’ consulting arm. In 2014, he left Concentrics to found Painted Hospitality with partner, William Stallworth. Amick has been featured in The New York Post, The Atlanta Business Chronicle, Wine Business, Southern Living, Sommelier Journal and on CNN.com as part of the “new wave of vino pros.” He was a featured wine expert on nationally broadcast HLN and a featured judge on The Food Network’s “Bobby Flay’s Throwdown.” In late 2018, he was named to the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s annual “40 under 40” class which honors “Atlanta’s brightest young business leaders who have scaled the ranks, are making a mark in their industries and a difference in their communities.”Lastly, Amick is on the Atlanta Food and Wine Festival’s “Advisory Council”, is a Certified Wine Educator, an Advanced Sommelier and is the proud recipient of the prestigious Rudd Scholarship from The Court of Master Sommeliers.
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