Camden Hauge arrived in Shanghai in 2012 working in advertising, but almost immediately began working towards her lifelong dream: pioneering unique hospitality experiences in Shanghai via immersive events + restaurant / bar concepts.

EVENTS + EXPERIENCES

After one year in the city, she started renegade dining club + event production company Shanghai Supperclub, which has since evolved into SOCIAL SUPPLY, a hospitality-focused experiences agency founded in concert with partner Olivia Mok. They now produce events in all forms + scales, both client events as well as their own events, including their now-classic series Shanghai Supperclub, immersive film screening series Cocktail Cinema, Shanghai's first home-grown annual food festival FEAST, and many more.

HOSPITALITY + CONSULTING GROUP

In parallel, Camden opened her first venue in 2015 – Egg, an all-day dining spot in the French Concession – to much acclaim. Over the next five years, she developed the concepts for + opened venues under brands Bitter, Bird, KIN Urban Thai Kitchen, Lucky Mart, LA MATCHA, Maiya, and Lucky Diner, all based in Shanghai.

Across all of these concepts, Camden seeks to create dining / drinking destinations with hospitality at heart, venues that inspire the feeling that this is the guests’ ‘happy place’. In that spirit, she founded her hospitality / consulting group Happy Place in 2020.

Why did you wait before, and why are you not waiting anymore?

I waited to make myself happy everyday but life is too short.