Executive Chef Rick Giffen brings 26 years of hotel restaurant culinary experience to his management role at the Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower. Over the course of his highly successful career, he has opened more than 40 restaurants worldwide, trained at the Hotel Intercontinental San Diego while going to culinary school, and opened the U.S. Grant Hotel as saucier for Grant Grill, which was reviewed in several culinary magazines including Food and Wine.