About Good Times Hospitality
We Create Places People Want to Be.
Good Times Hospitality is a Minnesota-based hospitality company built around a simple idea: great hospitality is about more than food, drinks, or a beautiful room. It’s about how a place makes you feel.
Founded by partners Zach Sussman and Farzad Freshtekhu, Good Times Hospitality brings together more than 50 years of combined experience across restaurants, event venues, catering, private clubs, and hospitality operations.
Our portfolio may be diverse, but everything we do shares the same goal: create memorable places, experiences, and—most importantly—Good Times.
OLD BUILDINGS. NEW STORIES.
We have a particular appreciation for places with history.
Rather than starting with a blank canvas, we’re drawn to distinctive buildings and properties that already have a story to tell. Our approach is to preserve the character that makes these places special while thoughtfully reinventing them for the way people gather today.
A historic brownstone becomes a private social club. A former church and retreat property becomes a one-of-a-kind wedding and event destination. An 1880s livery stable becomes a modern event center. An iconic neighborhood property gets new life as a restaurant and gathering place.
We don’t want to erase what came before us. We want to give great places their next chapter.
HOSPITALITY FIRST.
Great hospitality is difficult to define, but you know it when you experience it.
It’s being greeted like someone is genuinely happy you arrived. It’s a bartender remembering your drink. It’s a wedding where the couple can actually enjoy themselves because someone else is worrying about the details. It’s a business dinner that feels effortless, a neighborhood restaurant where you quickly become a regular, or a private club where you walk in knowing you’ll run into someone you want to see.
That philosophy guides everything we do.
Whether we’re operating a restaurant, hosting a wedding, managing a private club, or catering dinner for hundreds of guests, we believe hospitality comes first.
The food matters. The drinks matter. The room matters.
But how you make people feel matters most.
THE GOOD TIMES APPROACH.
We aren't interested in creating hospitality concepts that feel interchangeable.
Every property starts with the same questions:
- What makes this place special?
- Who should it serve?
- Why will people want to come here?
- And what will make them want to come back?
From there, we build the concept around the property, the neighborhood, and the people who will use it.
Sometimes that means restoring and reimagining a historic building. Sometimes it means creating a better neighborhood restaurant. Sometimes it means producing a wedding, corporate gathering, or private event where every detail feels effortless to the guest.
The format changes.
The philosophy doesn't.
GOOD PEOPLE. GOOD PLACES. GOOD TIMES.
At the end of the day, we're in the business of bringing people together.
Around a dinner table. Over cocktails. At a wedding. During a business meeting. On a rooftop. At the bar during a big game. Or simply with friends at the end of a long week.
Those moments are why hospitality exists.
And creating more of them is why we started Good Times Hospitality.
Good people. Good places. Good Times.