Restaurant Owner occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Two keys: RESTAURANT OWNER and 2012

LobbyVault stores FEC occupation strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Restaurant Owner and 2012 yields $786,172. That is 617 itemized lines and 327 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

An owner-title occupation string, not a restaurant-license census can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping RESTAURANT OWNER. Related titles are not added. The 327 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $5,509,629. Drop the string and you see the entire 2012 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Restaurant Owner versus OWNER

OWNER, BUSINESS OWNER, and RESTAURATEUR can sit in other buckets. This join uses the exact grouping RESTAURANT OWNER. Related titles are not added into $786,172 or $5,509,629.

A title on a form is not an employment verification. People using a household occupation, a retired title, or a short status word can all land in the same cell. LobbyVault does not recode RESTAURANT OWNER into a NAICS industry. The 14.3% ratio is $786,172 divided by $5,509,629. Other even-year joins for RESTAURANT OWNER are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $4,723,457. Citing 2012 as if it were the Restaurant Owner lifetime total would overstate this cell by $4,723,457.

Means on $786,172

Packet arithmetic: $786,172 ÷ 617 ≈ $1,274 per contribution; $786,172 ÷ 327 ≈ $2,404 per donor; 617 ÷ 327 ≈ 1.9 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. A mean of $1,274 per itemized line and $2,404 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 617 contributions remaining larger than 327 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

Lifetime Restaurant Owner money versus 2012

A lifetime figure of $5,509,629 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2012 is $786,172, about 14.3%. The leftover $4,723,457 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$5,509,629 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related title and not a sector total. 14.3% describes 2012 inside Restaurant Owner, nothing else. FEC cycle 2012 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $786,172 if they were itemized against RESTAURANT OWNER. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

National awards, research grants, and agency contracts live in USAspending. This join has no grant identifiers. Ranking occupations as more political is not a claim these facts support.

The page does not identify employers, does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift, and does not link FEC receipts to USAspending obligations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. Cite $786,172, 617 contributions, and 327 donors for Restaurant Owner in 2012. Cite $5,509,629 for the all-cycle occupation grouping. Name FEC.gov. Restaurant Owner as an owner-title occupation string, not a restaurant-license census can appear in licensing or contracting databases under similar names. Those tables are not this $786,172. The join does not claim a payment trail from campaign gifts to federal awards.

Related Restaurant Owner and 2012 tables

Restaurant Owner donations is the occupation hub behind $5,509,629. The 2012 election cycle page is the cycle census across occupations. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties collects other occupation-cycle pairs from the same two fields. Live hubs override this snapshot.

Keep the occupation string RESTAURANT OWNER attached to $786,172 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2012. Keep 617 contributions and 327 donors in the same citation. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source. Quote both keys: Restaurant Owner and 2012. Quote the dollars: $786,172. Quote the volume: 617 contributions, 327 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov. Leave NAICS codes and named donors out unless a later overlay supplies them. Restating the join without new numbers: Restaurant Owner in 2012 is $786,172 from 617 itemized individual contributions and 327 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $5,509,629 across cycles, so 2012 is about 14.3% and other windows hold $4,723,457 (85.7%). The grouping is an owner-title occupation string, not a restaurant-license census, not a restaurant PAC, a NAICS food-service rollup, or Owner stored as a shorter key. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $1,274; mean per donor about $2,404; about 1.9 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $786,172.

Questions

How much did Restaurant Owner-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Restaurant Owner × 2012 cell is $786,172. FEC.gov counted 617 itemized individual contributions from 327 unique donors. That is the join, not the $5,509,629 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $786,172, 617 contributions, and 327 donors in the Restaurant Owner × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,509,629.

What share of Restaurant Owner FEC money fell in 2012?

2012 holds $786,172 of the $5,509,629 stored for Restaurant Owner, roughly 14.3%. The leftover $4,723,457 is other windows on the occupation hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $786,172, 617 contributions, and 327 donors in the Restaurant Owner × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,509,629.

Does Restaurant Owner mean licensed restaurants only?

It is form text, not a license file. FEC.gov aggregated $786,172 for RESTAURANT OWNER in 2012 (617 contributions, 327 donors). Related occupation strings are not merged. FEC.gov is the source for $786,172, 617 contributions, and 327 donors in the Restaurant Owner × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,509,629.

Where is the overlay for Restaurant Owner in 2012?

Use the four packet hrefs: Restaurant Owner donations, 2012 election cycle, All occupations, and All FEC ties. This file explains $786,172 as the join. If a hub disagrees with $786,172, the hub and FEC.gov control. FEC.gov is the source for $786,172, 617 contributions, and 327 donors in the Restaurant Owner × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,509,629.