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'''Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc.''', brings the trademark cuisine of one of America's most celebrated chefs to an audience far beyond the white tablecloths of Los Angeles' renowned Spago restaurant. Since arriving in the United States in the 1970s, Wolfgang Puck has become one of the wealthiest and possibly the most famous chefs in history, thanks in part to regular appearances on national television programs. Observers have described him as the first chef ever to successfully start and run his own chain of restaurants, while his company has been successful in capitalizing on his name in both mid-range restaurant chains, frozen foods, cookware, consumer packaged foods, and the home meal replacement category.

Puck's former wife, Barbara Lazaroff, has been instrumental in his success as she focuses on management details and designing the restaurant's unique interiors. Puck and Lazaroff's interests in their seven fine dining restaurants, each separate partnerships with other investors, were held under Puck Lazaroff Inc. These produced approximately $60 million of revenue in 1997. Puck and Lazaroff owned 30 percent of the Wolfgang Puck Food Company in 1998, which operated 21 casual restaurants (the full-service Wolfgang Puck Cafes and Oba-Chine, and the counter-service Wolfgang Puck Express) and Wolfgang Puck Packaged Foods. In 2001 Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc. was founded to oversee the myriad activities of the Wolfgang Puck brand name, including not only its fine dining restaurants, casual dining restaurants, catering business, and packaged food products, but Puck's television shows, books, and syndicated newspaper column as well.