Warren Luckett
Managing Partner 鈥� Founder
Black Restaurant Week, LLC
Warren Luckett is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience owning a successful business. He earned a bachelor of science degree in finance from Morehouse College in 2007. After a short time trading at Morgan Stanley in New York, Luckett returned home to Houston, where he earned a master of business administration degree from Texas Southern University鈥檚 Jesse H. Jones School of Business.
In 2016, Luckett established Black Restaurant Week, which celebrates the flavors of Black American, African, and Caribbean cuisines nationwide. The annual campaign features 1,700 restaurants, food trucks, and caterers and has generated more than one billion searches and 750 million impressions. Outlets featured include Good Morning America, Bloomberg, Forbes, Food & Wine, CNBC, the Huffington Post, and Essence. Through partnerships with corporations such as Levy, PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch, Grubhub, and Maker鈥檚 Mark, Black Restaurant Week continues to expand across North America. In 2021, the campaign grew internationally to Toronto, furthering its mission of stimulating local economies and promoting awareness of minority-owned businesses.
Luckett鈥檚 professional and civic affiliations have included the Court of Master Sommeliers, the Houston Minority Supplier Development Council, the City of Houston鈥檚 Minority Business Enterprise program, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
He was named one of the Houston Chronicle鈥檚 Most Stylish People of 2017. He has served on the junior board of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and on the board of the Greater Houston Black Chamber of Commerce, where he was board treasurer and second vice chair. Luckett also serves on the Hilton College Dean鈥檚 Advisory Board.
In 2020, Luckett became a founding member of Feed the Soul Foundation, established to aid marginalized entrepreneurs in the culinary industry through business development resources and support.