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Article: ROBERT TOURNIER'S BUSINESS STARTS IN THE KITCHEN.(Le Central restaurant of Denver, Colorado)
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- ColoradoBiz
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- February 1, 2001
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LE CENTRAL'S OWNER PEDDLES AFFORDABLE FRENCH CUISINE
Robert Tournier doesn't drive a BMW 740, doesn't smoke cigars the size of Polish sausages, and doesn't have an executive office guarded by support staff. Rather, the 50-year-old owner of Le Central, one of Denver's oldest and most successful independent eateries, can be found pedaling his imposing 6-foot-2-inch frame to work on a late-model mountain bike -- in faded jeans and a simple polo shirt, his gray hair standing defiantly on end.
This makes sense to Tournier. He rode his bike (he couldn't afford a car at the time) the day he opened Le Central back in 1980, and, just as he's continued that ...