What restaurant owner donors give in federal races

Owner-plus-sector receipts under $5.5 million

$5,509,629 is the occupation-level dollar total. 14,176 is the itemization count. 1,329 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $389 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,146 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 11 itemizations per donor record. Fourteen thousand-plus lines from 1,329 donor records is a mid-volume owner-title pattern—more people than concentrated C-suite strings, fewer lines than high-frequency trades.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $389 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per line sit in a middle band among occupation strings near this dollar total. The packet still has no median and no single-unit-versus-chain split.

Restaurant owner is not generic owner

Some donors write RESTAURANT OWNER; others write OWNER or RESTAURATEUR. FEC bulk data keeps each spelling. A donor who files OWNER in one cycle and RESTAURANT OWNER in another is split across occupation pages.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals RESTAURANT OWNER after indexing. OWNER, RESTAURATEUR, and RESTAURANT MANAGER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to RESTAURANT OWNER.

What 1,329 donor records can and cannot show

1,329 donor records used RESTAURANT OWNER on at least one matching itemization. 1,329 donor records used RESTAURANT OWNER on at least one matching itemization. That is not a census of restaurant firms. Partners, operators, and people who typed the title loosely can appear.

A person who listed RESTAURANT OWNER on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Keep food-service industry tables separate

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. Industry pages group food-service employers. This occupation page groups only the job-title string RESTAURANT OWNER. Adding the two double-counts overlapping rows. Adding $5,509,629 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the RESTAURANT OWNER occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,509,629.

How to cite the restaurant owner key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: RESTAURANT OWNER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,509,629 on 14,176 contributions from 1,329 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. The title is not a liquor-license roster and not a food-service industry total.

Treating RESTAURANT OWNER as typed owner-plus-sector text

RESTAURANT OWNER in this extract is $5,509,629 on 14,176 itemizations from 1,329 donor records, or $5.5 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. Owner-plus-sector is donor-typed text, not a business-registry match. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $389 per contribution and about $4,146 per donor record, with roughly 11 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. OWNER, RESTAURATEUR, and RESTAURANT MANAGER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to RESTAURANT OWNER. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $5,509,629. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals RESTAURANT OWNER, dollars equal $5,509,629, contributions equal 14,176, donors equal 1,329. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($5.5 million) are the same headline amount as $5,509,629, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of RESTAURANT OWNER in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have restaurant owner donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list RESTAURANT OWNER sum to $5,509,629 across 14,176 contributions and 1,329 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is generic OWNER included in this total?

No. OWNER is a separate occupation string. This page covers RESTAURANT OWNER only: $5,509,629, 14,176 contributions, and 1,329 donors. Combining them would invent a combined owner total the packet does not contain. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does listing restaurant owner prove the donor holds the liquor license?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify business ownership. Quote 14,176 contributions and 1,329 donor records with the $5,509,629 total. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where can I see the underlying receipts?

Open the RESTAURANT OWNER occupation page for the indexed table, then verify on FEC.gov. Industry pages group employer-side food-service labels separately. The occupation total is $5,509,629. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.