Mike Whalen Founder, President & CEO
Heart of America Restaurants & Inns
Mike Whalen developed, owns and operates 26 restaurants and hotels in ten metropolitan areas of six Midwestern states. The accidental entrepreneur began with a failed 100-seat coffee shop in Davenport, IA after graduation from Harvard Law School.
The restaurants were built around varying concepts with
The
Machine Shed Restaurants as the flagship. The original
100-seats blossomed into the second highest volume restaurant
in the state, second only to his other Machine Shed Restaurant.
Heart
of America Restaurants & Inns, a proud Iowa company
was founded in 1978 by Mike Whalen.
Administrative and Sales offices are located in: Iowa
(800-395-7675), Illinois (866-799-9300),
Kansas (800-965-0502),
Minnesota (866-294-6250) & Wisconsin (262-506-6300).
