Restaurateur

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (October 2015) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 6,535 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Gastwirt]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|de|Gastwirt}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

A restaurateur (/ˌrɛstərəˈtɜːr/ REST-ər-ə-TUR; French: [ʁɛstɔʁatœʁ]) 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.

Etymology[]

The French word restaurateur comes from the Late Latin term restaurator ("restorer") and from the Latin term restaurare.^[1][2][3] The word restaurateur is simply French for a person who owns or runs a restaurant.^[4] The feminine form of the French noun is restauratrice.^[5]

A less common variant spelling restauranteur is formed from the "more familiar" term restaurant^[6] with the French suffix -eur borrowed from restaurateur. It is considered a misspelling by some.^[4][6] The Oxford English Dictionary gives examples of this variant (described as "originally American") going back to 1837.^[7] H. L. Mencken said that in using this form he was using an American, not a French, word.^[8]

See also[]

• Culinary arts
• Foodservice
• List of restaurateurs
• National Restaurant Association
• Restaurant
• Restaurant management
• The World's 50 Best Restaurants

References[]

External links[]

• The dictionary definition of restaurateur at Wiktionary
• Media related to Restaurateurs at Wikimedia Commons