Elvis played a boxer in the 1962 feature film, Kid Galahad. But Mario Torres, chef and food and beverage director at Elvis Presley Enterprises, is a boxer in real life.
Boxing, like cooking, is a passion, Torres says. He boxes every day when he gets home from work. “It’s my therapy,” he says, adding, “I hit a heavy bag.” And after a day of preparing his culinary creations, which include “Presley Salad,” “The King’s Cut” tomahawk steak, and pork belly pork chop, he says boxing “gives me peace.”
Torres wrestles pots and pans in seven Graceland restaurants, including the newest, “The Showroom at Graceland,” which is in the Guest House at Graceland. “We have always had a theater at the Guest House. And we continue to show a movie at 7 p.m. every day. If you stay at the Guest House, you watch a movie of Elvis.”…