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JAYBIRD
HOSPITALITY
Welcome to Jaybird, your new full-service hospitality partner. Our mission is to leverage our decades of expertise to provide tailored advice on the fundamentals of hospitality, aligning with your unique needs to help you build the business of your dreams. We’re not just consultants, we’re collaborators ready to help you transform your vision into a resounding success.
Curious what we can do for you?
Select Projects & Events
Hotel Alma, San Diego
B Side Pizza Bar, NYC
The Rose, Venice
Hedley & Bennett
Robot Heart
NYC + The Playa
Bodega, NYC
Eataly, LA
Poquito Mas, Los Angeles
Best Bet Pizzeria, Los Angeles
The Breakfast Club, Hollywood
Who We Are
At Jaybird, we consider hospitality to be a verb. It’s the little extras that you put into making each guest interaction a memorable one. It’s the act of creating an experience through thoughtful design, beautiful food & drinks, and attentive, genuine guest service. And it’s not easy to make it look easy. That’s where we come in.
Jaybird co-founders Jason Neroni & Jennifer Horan have over 30 years of operational experience in all walks of the hospitality industry - from fine and casual full service dining to quick service and multi-outlet operations to hotel and large scale public event planning and execution - we’ve seen it all. Throughout our careers in hospitality we have developed partnerships with some of the leading professionals in the food, hospitality, and events industries and we will be there with you every step of the way from concept to launch to help you make your hospitality business a success. We offer all kinds of tailored short and long term consulting services to meet your creative and financial goals.
Jason Neroni
CREATIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER
Chef Jason Neroni began his career at the ripe old age of 16 at Disneyland. While his goal was less driven by culinary dreams and more by free park entrance, after landing a position at Disney’s Club 33 under a traditional French chef, Jason began to widen his ambitions. He cooked his way through most of art school before disembarking for Berkley to work for Alice Waters at Chez Panise, where he began his culinary education and career in earnest. Jason worked his way up the ranks through jobs and apprenticeships at some of the most celebrated restaurants in the world, including Spago, Blue Hill, Alain Ducasse at Essex House, Champs Elyse, and Louis XV, Arzak, and El Bulli to name a few. Jason branched out on his own in 2009 as an owner/operator of 10 Downing in NYC to much acclaim and has since gone on to successfully operate a number of high profile restaurants in NYC & LA, including Superba, The Rose Venice, and, with his wife and partner Jennifer Horan, Best Bet Pizzeria.
As a consultant, Jason has advised a wide range of clients from budding restaurateurs to multi-unit hotel outlets and everything in between. He brings his passion, drive, and deep understanding of all things culinary, operational, and financial to each project with a unique insight into the needs of each client and the operation market to create sustainable, profitable, hospitality driven businesses. When he’s not working, he’s at the movies, traveling with Jennifer and the kids, or back at Disneyland in line for Space Mountain.
Jennifer Horan
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS & CO-FOUNDER
Jennifer Horan was born and raised in a food obsessed family of farmers and home cooks in Paducah, KY. She spent many evenings playing restaurant while “Chef” Grandmother Penny cooked fried chicken, fried okra, and braised collard greens. Jennifer waited tables & bartended her way through college, gaining an education in Italian food and wine and a B.A. in Art History and Political science at the University of Oregon along the way.
For the past 20 years, Jennifer has worked in a diverse range of roles across the restaurant industry that give her unique insight into guest service, branding, and design. She has worked in high-level management at James Beard Award winning restaurants such as Cafe Cluny, Mas Farmhouse, and Clark Lewis, as well as working as a freelance food and culture writer for various publications and in PR at Hall PR for various national hospitality and lifestyle brands. In 2020, Jennifer and Jason partnered to open and operate Best Bet where she earned rave reviews for her interior design. As a consultant, Jennifer has worked on a wide variety of projects from retail to hospitality on design, brand establishment, PR, operations, and FOH management. When she’s not working on the book that she’s definitely going to finish this year, she’s waiting on line for Space Mountain with Jason and the kids.
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