About Us.

Michael McGowan, the founder of The Omelet House, passed away on Christmas Eve after a short battle with cancer. Mike was a friend, mentor and brother in business with Fred Ostertag and Kevin Mills. In addition to the Omelet House Mike started many restaurant concepts in Las Vegas. He came here from southern California in 1973 to start the Food Factory, which eventually had eight locations around the valley and employed about one of every twelve young adults in LV during it’s heyday. He installed the first drivethru window in LV at the Rancho and Bonanza location. Later, he opened Alias Smith and Jones, a wildly popular watering hole at Paradise and Twain and then went on to open the Burger Garden on Flamingo. In 1979 he opened the Garden Eatery at Charleston and Rancho to try and capture the breakfast, lunch and dinner market in that area. When it became apparent that dinner was not going to be popular in that location he changed to the Omelet house concept to focus exclusively on breakfast and lunch. That move proved successful and he eventually had up to six locations (there are three still open at the time of his death). It should be noted that many of the people he hired have remained employed at the restaurants for over 30 years. In addition to his business partners, he is survived by his devoted wife, Sun and two sisters and a brother. He will be missed by all who knew him. There will be a celebration of life for him sometime in February.