This is a list of restaurateurs. 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.
Restaurateurs edit
- Gastón Acurio
- Pius Alibek Hermez
- Alex Atala
- Askar Baitassov
- Eddie Blay
- Marcel Boulestin
- Norman E. Brinker
- Ion Luca Caragiale
- Engracia Cruz-Reyes
- Teun van Dijck
- Gato Dumas
- Robert Earl
- Guy Fieri
- Will Guidara
- Károly Gundel
- Juan José Gutiérrez
- Ching Hai
- Leopold Hawelka
- Jean-Pierre Koepp
- Jimmy Lahoud
- Brian McKenna
- Georges Mora
- Ken Oringer
- Ioan Gyuri Pascu
- Jacky Robert
- Sakis Rouvas
- Wilhelmina Skogh
- Eduardo Sousa
- Stephen Starr
- Jean-Philippe Susilovic
- Chin-hui Tsao
- Oscar Tschirky
- Mór Ungerleider
- Virgilio Martínez Véliz
- Cajsa Wahllund
By nationality edit
Australia edit
Austria edit
Bahrain edit
Brazil edit
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- Hugh Acheson
- Shereen Arazm
- Sean Avery
- Nat Bailey
- Joe Beef
- Massimo Capra
- Maggie Cassella
- Christy Chung
- Lynn Crawford
- Meeru Dhalwala
- Danica d'Hondt
- Stefano Faita
- Rob Feenie
- Ryan Gosling
- Wayne Gretzky
- Ryan Holmes
- Hector Jimenez-Bravo
- Harry Kambolis
- Jamie Kennedy
- Susur Lee
- Brad Long
- Mark McEwan
- Robert J. Patterson
- Duke Redbird
- Tim Rozon
- Joey Ghazal
- Guy Rubino
- Michael Smith
- Marc Thuet
- Vikram Vij
- Stephen Yan
- Zal Yanovsky
- Maurice Zbriger
Denmark edit
El Salvador edit
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- Antoine Beauvilliers
- Louis Bignon
- Georges Blanc
- Raymond Blanc
- Paul Bocuse
- Joël Dupuch
- Stéphane Froidevaux
- Jean Galatoire
- Jacques Genin
- Michel Guérard
- Jean Joho
- Ludo Lefebvre
- Édouard Loubet
- Sébastien Masi
- Michel Michaud
- Jean-Christophe Novelli
- Claude Philippe
- Thierry Rautureau
- Stéphane Reynaud
- Kilien Stengel
- Jean Sulpice
- Pierre Troisgros
- Roger Vergé
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Hong Kong edit
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Italy edit
Massimo Dobrovic
Japan edit
Lithuania edit
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- Muquim Ahmed
- Enam Ali
- Kaniz Ali
- Siraj Ali
- Jamie Barber
- Aldo Berni
- Frank Berni
- Mark Birley
- Peter Boizot
- Vito Cataffo
- Foysol Choudhury
- Peter Evans
- John Maria Gatti
- Rose Gray
- Nick Jones
- Omar Khan
- Joel Kissin
- Atul Kochhar
- Abdul Latif
- Alvin Leung
- Magnus Lindgren
- Simon Loftus
- Tommy Miah
- David Moore
- Timothy Moxon
- Alan Murchison
- Jean-Christophe Novelli
- Hüseyin Özer
- Claude Philippe
- Gordon Ramsay
- Bajloor Rashid
- Mandy Rice-Davies
- Egon Ronay
- Mohammed Sabir
- Siegi Sessler
- Lisa Vanderpump
- Iqbal Wahhab
- Marco Pierre White
- Sarah Willingham
- Simon Wright
- Alan Yau
England edit
Scotland edit
United States edit
By type edit
Restaurant founders edit
Fast casual chain founders edit
Fast-food chain founders edit
- Dave Barham
- Burt Baskin
- Glen Bell
- Samuel Truett Cathy
- Derek Cha
- Blake Chanslor
- Andrew Cherng
- George W. Church, Sr.
- Al Copeland
- Lucia Cunanan
- Fred DeLuca
- David Edgerton
- Tom Forkner
- Jack Fulk
- Todd Graves
- Murray Handwerker
- Nathan Handwerker
- Wilber Hardee
- Pete Harman
- Tim Horton
- Howard Deering Johnson
- Ron Joyce
- Carl Karcher
- Margaret Karcher
- Daniel J. Kim
- Ray Kroc
- Young Lee
- Gust E. Lundberg
- Pat McDonagh
- Richard and Maurice McDonald
- James McLamore
- Hugh Morris
- Albert Okura
- Robert O. Peterson
- Harold Pierce
- Irv Robbins
- Joe Rogers, Sr.
- William Rosenberg
- Vernon Rudolph
- Nabi Saleh
- Colonel Sanders
- Ike Sewell
- Troy Smith
- Esther Snyder
- Harry Snyder
- Felix Stehling
- Brody Sweeney
- Tony Tan
- Dave Thomas
- Lovie Yancey
Pizza chain founders edit
See also edit
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