The Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, LLC is a San Francisco, California, based hotel and restaurant brand owned by IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) since 2015. Founded in 1981 by Bill Kimpton and led by Chief Executive Officer Mike DeFrino, the group was the largest chain of boutique hotels in the United States in 2011. It currently operates 68 hotels in 52 cities with a total of 13,357 bedrooms. New hotels have been announced for Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Paris, Barcelona, Charlottesville, Frankfurt, Grenada, Bali, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Rotterdam and Sanya. While most Kimpton properties are marketed under their own names as boutique hotels, the company launched two sub-brands in 2005, Hotel Palomar and Hotel Monaco. Each property has a restaurant or bar that is marketed as upscale or trendy. In 2020, Fortune magazine ranked Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants at number 10 on their Fortune List of the Top 100 Companies to Work For in 2020 based on an employee survey of satisfaction. The company also manages and operates hotels owned by other entities, under contract. On December 16, 2014, IHG announced that it would acquire Kimpton for $430 million in cash. IHG retained the Kimpton brand name within the U.S. and is expanding it globally. As a result of the acquisition, seven of Kimpton's nine hotels in San Francisco left the brand in July 2015. Hotel brands Hotel Monaco Baltimore, Maryland Chicago, Illinois Denver, Colorado Washington, D.C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Portland, Oregon (in the historic Lipman–Wolfe and Company Building) Salt Lake City, Utah Seattle, Washington Hotel Palomar Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Los Angeles, California San Diego, California Phoenix, Arizona Miami Beach, Florida Other hotels in the US In addition to the Hotel Monaco and Palomar Hotel brand hotels, other company hotels include: Alexandria, Virginia: Lorien Hotel and Spa Atlanta, Georgia: Kimpton Sylvan Kimpton Overland Hotel Asheville, North Carolina Kimpton Arras Austin, Texas: Hotel Van Zandt Boston, Massachusetts: Nine Zero Hotel Onyx Hotel Bozeman, Montana: Kimpton Armory Hotel Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hotel Marlowe Charlotte, North Carolina Kimpton Tryon Park Chicago, Illinois: The Kimpton Gray Hotel Cleveland, Ohio: The Kimpton Schofield Hotel Dallas, Texas Kimpton Pittman Denver, Colorado The Kimpton Born Hotel Fort Lauderdale, Florida Kimpton Goodland Fort Worth, Texas Kimpton Harper Huntington Beach, California: Kimpton Shorebreak Hotel Key West, Florida: Kimpton Fitch Lodge Kimpton Ella's Cottage Kimpton Lighthouse Kimpton Ridley House Kimpton Winslow's Bungalows Los Angeles, California: Kimpton Hotel Wilshire Kimpton Hotel