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Old menu cover, original Trader Vic's, Oakland. Trader Vic's is a restaurant and tiki bar chain headquartered in Emeryville, California, United States.Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 in San Francisco – October 11, 1984 in Hillsborough, California) founded a chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants that bore his nickname, "Trader Vic".
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Trader Vic's was the only of the former major chains that was still in large scale operation. [citation needed] By 1980, most of the tiki aesthetic in architecture and elsewhere had been completely wiped away in the name of progress. Some examples of homes, apartments and restaurant buildings remained, almost exclusively on the west coast.
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The other archetypical bar is Trader Vic's, the first of which was created by Victor Bergeron in Oakland, California, in 1936. The quintessential tiki cocktail, the Mai Tai, was concocted at the original Trader Vic's in 1944. [10] He began opening franchises outside of California, beginning with The Outrigger in Seattle, Washington in 1949.
Originally a small bar named The Outrigger, it was expanded into a full restaurant in 1954 and renamed Trader Vic's in 1960. [4] Due to the restaurant's success, Bergeron worked with Western Hotels to open Trader Vic's locations in a number of its hotels. In 1955, Western Hotels assumed management of the landmark Olympic Hotel in Seattle.
The pu pu platter was probably first introduced to restaurants on the United States mainland by Donn Beach in 1934, [1] and has since become a standard at most Polynesian-themed restaurants such as Don's and Trader Vic's. [3] [4] However, pu pu platters are currently more closely associated with American Chinese restaurants.