RESTAURANT OWNER

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.

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.