Company type | Private |
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Industry | Restaurant |
Founded | November 17, 1934 | as Hinky Dink's
Founder | Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr |
Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | United States United Arab Emirates United Kingdom |
Products | Mai Tai |
Website | tradervics |
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". He was one of two people who claimed to have invented the Mai Tai.[1] The other was his amicable competitor for many years, Donn Beach of the "Don the Beachcomber" restaurants.