Maryann Ferenc

CEO, Mise en Place, Mise en Scene (event catering) First Flight and Sono Cafe at the Tampa Museum of Art
Tampa | Hospitality

Company: The year was successful for Mise en Place, an upscale restaurant, even if the business didn't see a spike in sales as it did the prior year when the Republican National Convention converged on Tampa. “We'd do a convention like that every summer if we could,” says Maryann Ferenc, who founded Mise En Place 27 years ago.

Business has been steadily improving at the restaurant and its related businesses, including First Flight, a wine bar at Tampa International Airport, she says. Ferenc expects sales to continue to grow in 2014. She declined to provide specific figures on revenue other than to say it's upward of $3 million and the business employs 75 to 100 people.