Victor Rosellini

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Victor Rosellini (1915–2003) was a Seattle restaurateur, and president of the National Restaurant Association and the Restaurant Association of the State of Washington.

The National Restaurant Association is a restaurant industry business association in the United States, representing more than 380,000 restaurant locations. It also operates the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. The association was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Victor Rosellini was born in Tacoma in 1915, the son of Italian immigrant parents.^[1]

In 1936, Rosellini went to San Francisco to run "front of house" at his brother-in-law Agostino Giuntoli's Bimbo's 365 Club, a large and glamorous nightclub.^[2]

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References

1 2 Ko, Michael (11 January 2003). "Seattle restaurant legend Victor Rosellini dies at 87". Seattle Times. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
1 2 "Rosellini, Victor (1915-2003), Restaurateur and Epicure". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved 24 October 2014.

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[SeattleTimes-1] 1 2 Ko, Michael (11 January 2003). "Seattle restaurant legend Victor Rosellini dies at 87". Seattle Times. Retrieved 24 October 2014.

[HistoryLink-2] 1 2 "Rosellini, Victor (1915-2003), Restaurateur and Epicure". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved 24 October 2014.