Founder and CEO of RAR Hospitality, Rauch’s name has arguably become as well-known as the hotel properties he develops or operates. However, he sure did not start at the top.

Rauch first dipped into the hospitality industry when he got a job as a banquet dishwasher in 1974 at Ramada Inn in Champaign, IL.

/// Through Unbreakable ambition and desire to aim higher, he climbed the ladder from Manger Trainee, Sales Manger, Food and Beverage Manager, and then eventually promoted to General Manger within a span of jut five years, making him the youngest GM for Ramada in the country at the time.

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