Definition of restaurateur
: the operator or proprietor of a restaurant
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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.
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Founded in 2016 by Evanston restaurateur Hecky Powell, the WE Program welcomed its first round of students in 2017.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The restaurant is owned by Dallas Cowboys lineman Kadeem Edwards, along with restaurateurs Blake Levison, Ryan Thompson and Eric Winsor.
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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.
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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.
Origin and Etymology of restaurateur
French restaurateur, from Late Latin restaurator restorer, from Latin restaurare
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: a person who owns or manages a restaurant
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