Joseph Lyons (caterer)

Sir Joseph Lyons DL, in a photograph published in 1914, wearing the uniform of Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London

Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons DL (29 December 1847 – 22 June 1917) was an English entrepreneur and pioneer of mass catering. He was the chairman and co-founder of J. Lyons and Co., a restaurant chain, food manufacturing and hotel conglomerate created in 1884 that dominated British mass-catering in the first half of the twentieth century.