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W woofmutt Member Seattilite Telstar Joined: Mar 26, 2002 Posts: 2639	W woofmutt Posted posted on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 8:39 AM This should help clarify the David Cohn confusion. Tuesday, September 9, 2003 David L. Cohn, Dead At 85: Restaurant empire included the Met By PENELOPE CORCORAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER RESTAURANT CRITIC Longtime Seattle restaurateur David L. Cohn, chairman of the board of Consolidated Restaurants Inc., died yesterday at Swedish Medical Center's First Hill Campus in Seattle after suffering a heart attack a week ago. He was 85. A key community figure credited with helping bring professional big-league stadium sports to Seattle, Cohn served as a member of the University of Washington's Board of Regents and president of the Restaurants Association of Washington. He started his lengthy and successful Seattle hospitality career in 1951, when he opened the Barb on Seneca Street across from what is now the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. Over the next three decades, Cohn built his portfolio of properties into the largest group of single-owner operated restaurants in the Pacific Northwest. Run by son Ron Cohn since 1983, Consolidated Restaurants' current roster of notable restaurants includes the Metropolitan Grill, Elliott's Oyster House, Union Square Grill and DC's Grill, as well as casual eateries Steamers Seafood Cafe and Quincy's Chargrilled Burgers. Until earlier this year, the company owned Hiram's at the Locks. An avid tennis player who often played five times a week as recently as this summer, Cohn attended Indiana University on a basketball scholarship after achieving recognition as a prep school hoops star in Indianapolis. He left a successful Midwest food-brokerage business to move to Seattle. In addition to multiple Barb locations, over the years Cohn's other restaurants have included the Polynesia, the Tivoli Haus at the Seattle Center, the Carriage Inn, the Cove, the Meat Market, two Windjammer restaurants and the Abigail's chain. Also, the Jet Diner in the Northern Life Tower, the Sir Loin (which eventually became Majestic Short-Order Deluxe) in Lake Forest Park, the Conquistador Southcenter and Sammamish's Coconut Beach Grill. Cohn and his wife, Ruth, residents of Mercer Island, were married in 1943. They have two sons, Ron and Steve.

This should help clarify the David Cohn confusion.

Tuesday, September 9, 2003

David L. Cohn, Dead At 85: Restaurant empire included the Met

By PENELOPE CORCORAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER RESTAURANT CRITIC

Longtime Seattle restaurateur David L. Cohn, chairman of the board of Consolidated Restaurants Inc., died yesterday at Swedish Medical Center's First Hill Campus in Seattle after suffering a heart attack a week ago. He was 85.

A key community figure credited with helping bring professional big-league stadium sports to Seattle, Cohn served as a member of the University of Washington's Board of Regents and president of the Restaurants Association of Washington.

He started his lengthy and successful Seattle hospitality career in 1951, when he opened the Barb on Seneca Street across from what is now the Fairmont Olympic Hotel.

Over the next three decades, Cohn built his portfolio of properties into the largest group of single-owner operated restaurants in the Pacific Northwest.

Run by son Ron Cohn since 1983, Consolidated Restaurants' current roster of notable restaurants includes the Metropolitan Grill, Elliott's Oyster House, Union Square Grill and DC's Grill, as well as casual eateries Steamers Seafood Cafe and Quincy's Chargrilled Burgers.

Until earlier this year, the company owned Hiram's at the Locks.

An avid tennis player who often played five times a week as recently as this summer, Cohn attended Indiana University on a basketball scholarship after achieving recognition as a prep school hoops star in Indianapolis.

He left a successful Midwest food-brokerage business to move to Seattle.

In addition to multiple Barb locations, over the years Cohn's other restaurants have included the Polynesia, the Tivoli Haus at the Seattle Center, the Carriage Inn, the Cove, the Meat Market, two Windjammer restaurants and the Abigail's chain.

Also, the Jet Diner in the Northern Life Tower, the Sir Loin (which eventually became Majestic Short-Order Deluxe) in Lake Forest Park, the Conquistador Southcenter and Sammamish's Coconut Beach Grill.

Cohn and his wife, Ruth, residents of Mercer Island, were married in 1943. They have two sons, Ron and Steve.

Post #543039 by woofmutt on Sat, Jul 17, 2010 8:39 AM