Karen Bremer, Executive Director - Georgia Restaurant Association (GRA)
With over 47 years in the hospitality industry, Karen Bremer leads the Georgia Restaurant Association (GRA), which serves as the unified voice for over 18,900 eating and drinking place locations that employ more than 500,000 people and generate total sales in excess of $24.9 billion per year.
Bremer is the former owner of Dailey's and City Grill restaurants and was a top executive with the Peasant Restaurant Group, as well as a founding member of the GRA. She is deeply involved in the community and serves on the boards of the ACVB, the Industry Advisory Board of Georgia State University's Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality and is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI). Bremer has also been named as one of Georgia Trend Magazine's "100 Most Influential Georgians of the Year." In 2021, Nation's Restaurant News named Karen as one of the Industry's Most Influential Solution Providers in the USA.