When he was 24 years old he decided to set out new challenges for himself and so he moved to the USA. He first set his foot in Indianapolis and started working in an Italian style restaurant called La Tour. He worked there for almost 2 years and left the place in order to achieve greater heights. He later went to Los Angeles and became a chef and also partly owned the Ma Maison which is a very highly regarded restaurant in Los Angeles.

In 1981 he wrote a book called Modern French Cooking for The American Kitchen. It was an instant success among the American people as it was a very well written piece of DIYs and many recipes. A year later he opened a restaurant called Spago. This restaurant won many awards for the best restaurant and served quality food for millions of American people and people from all around the world. In 1997 he moved his restaurant to Beverly Hills and since then the Spago has been listed under the best restaurant in the USA.

He launched the Wolfgang Puck Companies inspired by the success of his restaurant. This company has a lot of subsidiaries which are dining groups, hotels, restaurants etc. Puck is dominating the restaurant industry for the past decade or two and shows no signs of stopping. His knowledge and experience have made the world visit his restaurants as if its some kind of magic.

Puck's story is the classic Started from the bottom and reaching the top kind and for good reason. He was very much influenced by his parent's divorce and went through a lot of sad phases but he pulled himself up and started working to achieve his dreams and here he is, ranked among the best chefs in the world right now which says a lot of the person's determination. His company also makes cookware and other products . he also owns a charitable organization called Puck-Lazaroff Charitable Foundation and it has raised around $15 million for the needy and less privileged .

Puck has had wives throughout his life, his current wife Gelila Assefa is a designer and they got married in 2007. The second wife still works as the co-founder of the company and also takes care of the interior design of their restaurants.

His biography can be read in Live, love, Eat which he wrote along with many other books he can be contacted through Twitter and Facebook and also by sending him a mail to his personal address. He has a total of four children 2 from current marriage and two from the previous one.