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The proprietors, Italian natives Aniello and Emanuele, take great pride in making sure each dish is consistently good.
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
Keep in mind, the card is only available to corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs) or limited partnerships (LPs); sole proprietors are ineligible.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025
When an escaped Eleven finds her way to a diner (the image of a bald Brown in a hospital gown shoving fries into her mouth is indelible), Brenner’s team impersonates social services, kills the kind proprietor, but fails to apprehend her.
—Judy Berman, Time, 26 Dec. 2025
Sujan Sarkar, the chef and proprietor at Chicago’s Indienne, calls his tasting-menu spot the most expensive Indian restaurant in America and says all 90 seats are booked every night.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2025
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owner
Noun
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Cleggett was the owner of a sober home business that operated in Boston, Wakefield, Quincy, and Weymouth.—
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Around 1970, the Clarks, the home’s second owners, subdivided the property into five separate lots, keeping one for themselves and selling the other four.—
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“Proprietor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proprietor. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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