restaurateur

noun res·tau·ra·teur \ ˌre-stə-rə-ˈtər \

variants: or less commonly restauranteur play \ˌre-stə-ˌrän-ˈtər\

Updated on: 14 Apr 2018

Definition of restaurateur

: the operator or proprietor of a restaurant

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Recent Examples of restaurateur from the Web

For the project, Patel is working with Bay Area restaurateur Daniel Patterson and his Alta Group, much like Reem Assil, who has a similar arrangement to open Dyafa in Oakland.

— justin phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, "Heena Patel to open Besharam in Dogpatch Alta space," 5 Apr. 2018
Founded in 2016 by Evanston restaurateur Hecky Powell, the WE Program welcomed its first round of students in 2017.

— kyra senese, chicagotribune.com, "Evanston high school students join career-mentoring program founded by local entrepreneur," 3 Apr. 2018
As my colleague Jacob Adelman described, the property will include a ground-floor coffee shop and a roof deck, with retractable canopy, run by restaurateurs Greg Root and Nick Kennedy, behind Fishtown’s Root and Suraya restaurants.

— michael klein, Philly.com, "More roof-deck bars are coming to Philadelphia," 28 Mar. 2018
New restaurants include Mandito's and Lulu's, opened recently by Houston restaurateur Armando Palacios, who has a second home in the Round Top area.

— diane cowen, Houston Chronicle, "Round Top: How to navigate Antiques Week," 22 Mar. 2018
Tessemae’s, the local dressing and condiment maker, has teamed up with Baltimore restaurateur Spike Gjerde to begin selling his Snake Oil hot sauce to customers across the country.

— sarah meehan, baltimoresun.com, "Tessemae's teams up with Baltimore restaurateur Spike Gjerde to sell hot sauce nationwide," 20 Mar. 2018
Ali’s job, right now, is right-hand man, confidant, and arbiter of all things chic to London restaurateur Richard Caring, who is in the throes of reinventing Annabel’s.

— pascal chevallier, Vogue, "The Reinvention of Annabel’s, London’s Legendary Nightclub," 19 Mar. 2018
The restaurant is owned by Dallas Cowboys lineman Kadeem Edwards, along with restaurateurs Blake Levison, Ryan Thompson and Eric Winsor.

— lauren delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, "First bite: Stir Restaurant & Bar in Orlando's Ivanhoe Village," 16 Mar. 2018
Perry offered to buy the convent in 2015 and the archdiocese quickly sued to block the sale to Perry, because the sisters wanted the property to go to Los Angeles restaurateur Dana Hollister.

— hannah smothers, Cosmopolitan, "Nun Involved in a Legal Battle With Katy Perry Dies in Court," 11 Mar. 2018

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restaurateur Has French Roots

Restaurateur and restaurant were borrowed directly from related French words, and both ultimately derive from the Latin word restaurare ("to restore"). Restaurateur is the older of the two; our earliest evidence dates it to 1793. Restaurant is only slightly newer; it dates to 1806. Of the two words, restaurant is of course significantly more common—a fact that may have influenced the development of the variant spelling restauranteur for restaurateur. Restauranteur first appeared a mere 44 years after restaurateur, but it is considered by many to be an error. It is, however, a standard variant, albeit one that continues to be used less frequently than restaurateur.