Craig Trager was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and has over twenty years of experience in the restaurant and nightclub business. Trager cut his teeth managing under the tutelage of renowned restaurateur Silvio De Mori, owner of Cafe des Artistes and Mimosa. While working with De Mori, Trager learned the importance of treating customers in such a way that garnered incredible loyalty and a multitude of return clientele. Trager moved on to work with Brent Bolthouse as the Managing Partner of Babylon Restaurant. Always striving to create an environment where the customer's needs are first and foremost, Trager felt the need to venture out and open his own establishments. In 1998, Trager formed the Vintage Bar Group with the intent to own and operate bars with the same theory that the TV show Cheers was based on; to make everyone who walks into a Vintage Bar Group establishment feel like a celebrity the minute they walk through the door and to provide those customers a place where the staff not only knows its customers by name, but their drink as well.