Cato Hospitality Group

About Us

Your Proven Airport Concessions Partner
At Cato Hospitality Group, we aim to protect and safeguard profitability and create a conduit for achieving investment objectives.

Michael E. Washington, founded Cato Hospitality Group and Palazzo Concessions with his wife Stasia Washington. We are celebrating 15 years of working in the airport concession business, consulting and 25 years of experience as a hotel general manager and hospitality executive.

Cato Hospitality Group is known for leading hotel management and concessions operations to outstanding award-winning industry performance scores and awards. We are a transformational group experienced in driving operations, sales, marketing, revenue, and financial management. We are reliable and trustworthy and collaborates with investors to optimize operations and profits.

As an ACDBE & DBE Firm, we intentionally partner with major primes and operate successful concessions both street side and in airports while assisting and mentoring others to do business in the airport ecosystem.

Our leadership experience is unique and diverse, which gives us an innate understanding of what expertise and high-value operational assistance are needed to be successful.