Trader Vic's Restaurant group is a collection of restaurants that incorporates different cultures from around the world and is the only upscale group of restaurants operating worldwide.

Vic "The Trader" Bergeron's success has gained international acclaim and momentum by his ability to cultivate affluent, discriminating customers intrigued by his uncanny knack for introducing unique foods, careful preparation and for his inventing exotic and crowd pleasing drinks like the famous Mai Tai. He was the pioneer of fusion cuisine, introducing ingredients that provided his signature menus and emphasis on service. Trader Vic blazed a remarkable trail of gastronomic breakthroughs that were clearly ahead of his time.

Now Trader Vic's is known around the world and is a $50 million empire of company-owned and franchised restaurants.

This new brand of American hospitality, steeped in Island style service and atmosphere is like a club without membership-- a worry-free place for customers to escape into a world of the highest culinary quality and consistency, like a faux vacation to the tropics.

We invite you to visit our locations, try our Island-Eurasian Cuisine and enhance your enjoyment of life as envisioned by the one and only Trader Vic.

Aloha !!

Hans Richter
President & C.E.O.
Trader Vic's Restaurants

 

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A Brief History of Trader Vic's

20 B.C.	Chinese oven invented (well, maybe...)
1934	Trader Vic's first establishment, Hinky Dinks, opened
1936	Trader Vic's a family owned and operated business, founded
1944	Trader Vic, the first celebrity chef, invented the Mai Tai Cocktail
1951	Mai Tai took Honolulu by storm-recipe adjusted due to quality rum shortage
1955	Trader Vic's Beverly Hills opened
1956	Mai Tai recipe adjusted a second time due to quality rum shortage
1957	Trader Vic's Chicago opened
1963	Trader Vic's London opened
1964	Mai Tai recipe adjusted to its current formula
1974	Trader Vic's Munich opened
1976	Trader Vic's Atlanta opened
1986	Trader Vic's Osaka opened
1990	Trader Vic's Hamburg opened
1992	Trader Vic's Bangkok opened
1993	Trader Vic's Taipei opened
1994	Trader Vic's Abu Dhabi opened
1994	Trader Vic's Dubai opened
1997	Trader Vic's Marbella opened
2000	Trader Vic's Bahrain opened
	Trader Vic's Cairo opened
	Trader Vic's Beirut opened
	Trader Vic's Oman opened
2001	Trader Vic's Palo Alto opened
2003	Trader Vic's opened in Berlin in April