Susan Wolfla

Las Vegas Chefs

Susan Wolfla, our Executive Chef, brings a wide range of experience to the Mandalay Bay culinary team. Her diverse career has included tenures at megaresorts both in the United States and in the Caribbean, boutique hotels and 4-star restaurants.

Chef Wolfla graduated with a BS in Cell & Development Biology from Purdue University and an AA in Culinary Arts from The Culinary Institute of America. After graduation from culinary school, she received a lead position at Chef Jean Banchet's Ciboulette in Atlanta. She went on to become Executive Chef of the 4-star Northern Italian Restaurant Benvenuti. Always up for an adventure, Chef Wolfla moved to the Bahamas and was Executive Sous Chef at the world-famous luxury resort Atlantis. She went on to executive positions at Little Dix Bay in the Virgin Islands and the Las Vegas Venetian Resort.

Committed to education and community, Chef Wolfla is on the Advisory Board for The International Culinary School at The Art Institute of Las Vegas. She is also the chairman of the Three Square Culinary Team that advises the largest food bank in Southern Nevada.