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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
restaurateur
noun
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▪ Also patron of cooks, cutlers, glaziers, restaurateurs, and Sri Lanka.
▪ His office was in his home, and day or night restaurateurs or grocers might call to report a refrigeration emergency.
▪ I have a foot in both camps, as a restaurateur, and as a board member.
▪ Leading hoteliers, publicans and restaurateurs will converge at the Kings Hall, Balmoral, to choose new wines for their customers.
▪ The recipes, I was happy to notice, rapidly found favour with restaurateurs.
▪ The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
▪ The would-be restaurateur became, by accident, an importer.
▪ You aren't simply at the mercy of restaurateurs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Restaurateur

Restaurateur \Re`stau`ra`teur"\ (r?`st?`r?`t?r"), n. [F.] The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
restaurateur

1796, from French restaurateur, agent noun from restaurer "to restore" (see restaurant) on model of Late Latin restaurator "restorer." Native form restauranter is recorded from 1877.

Wiktionary
restaurateur

n. The owner of a restaurant.

WordNet
restaurateur

n. the proprietor of a restaurant [syn: restauranter]

Wikipedia
Restaurateur

A restaurateur is a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who owns a restaurant, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of the restaurant business.

Usage examples of "restaurateur".

It was soon reported that upon all occasions of the kind, the smile of Bon-Bon was wont to differ widely from the downright grin with which that restaurateur would laugh at his own jokes, or welcome an acquaintance.

Yet in the indulgence of a propensity so truly classical, it is not to be supposed that the restaurateur would lose sight of that intuitive discrimination which was wont to characterize, at one and the same time, his essais and his omelettes.

I am willing to allow much in the outward man of the restaurateur calculated to impress the imagination of the quadruped.

The daughter as well of famed restaurateur Jimmy Landi, Heather had died early last winter, killed when her car plunged down an embankment as she was driving home from a weekend of skiing in Vermont.

Chicago restaurateur who was something of a celebrity in his own right.

According to these sources, Wyatt conceived the idea of kidnapping Daniel Donovan after Bartlett showed him a recent newspaper article including a picture of Daniel and his mother, restaurateur Kate Donovan.

He had descended from restaurateur to the stars to a homeless existence on the streets.

Muriel Verloren could not say where her husband, Robert Verloren, a former Malibu restaurateur, is now located.

I have no doubt you know the best restaurateur, and afterwards you will get us a cab to go home in.

The restaurateur he favoured with his company was Veri, whose establishment was situated on the terrace of the Feuillans with an entrance into the garden of the Tuileries.

There was a grain of truth, and even more than a grain, in what the restaurateur had said.

He went across to the platform and our fat restaurateur Schultze, and shortly afterward returned with a bulky parcel, which he duly handed over.

Despite enormous resistance when it was first proposed, Euro Disney has become the number one tourist attraction in France, and the largest restaurateur in that country of high cuisine, selling 30 million meals a year.

There was even a picture of the happy restaurateurs beside an enormous cartoon cowboy with lariat.

At this time the Regent Grill was enjoying one of those bursts of popularity for which restaurateurs pray to whatever strange gods they worship.