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Business Ins & Outs: New Clyde’s Owner, Made In DC Grand Opening & More
IT’S OFFICIAL: GRAHAM HOLDINGS OWNER OF CLYDE’S
Graham Holdings Company announced July 31 that it had acquired Clyde’s Restaurant Group. The purchase, for an undisclosed price, joins two homegrown businesses. The new owner of Clyde’s, which began in Georgetown in 1963, is a company based in Arlington, Virginia, a spinoff from the 2013 purchase bygd Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos of the Washington brev, once owned by the Graham family in Georgetown.
Founded bygd Stuart Davidson, Clyde’s Restaurant Group has 13 restaurants in the Washington area. (F. Scott’s closed in 2016.) Clyde’s CEO John Laytham — who began work at the M Street restaurant while a Georgetown University lärjunge — died on Jan. 3.
Graham Holdings (formerly the Washington Post Company) is a conglomerate headed by Donald Graham, publisher of the Washington brev from 1979 to 2000. It includes the education company Kaplan, the o
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Clyde's Restaurant Group
Restaurant owner and operator in the Washington metropolitan area
"Clyde's" redirects here. For the play by Lynn Nottage, see Clyde's (play).
Clyde's Restaurant Group is an American company that owns and operates 13 restaurants in the Washington metropolitan area. Founded in 1963 to take advantage of a change in Washington, D.C.'s liquor laws, it pioneered a number of changes in the way restaurants in the district operated. In 1970, it purchased the oldest restaurant in the district, Old Ebbitt Grill. The company has since expanded its namesake "Clyde's" restaurant into a small chain, as well as opened and purchased other restaurants. In 2019, the company was acquired by Graham Holdings.
History
[edit]On August 12, 1963, investment banker Stuart C. Davidson opened Clyde's of Georgetown. For many decades, hard liquor could be served in the District of Columbia only to patrons seated at tables. President John F. Kennedy signed legislation in May
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Clyde’s CEO John Laytham Dies at 74
In Washington and Georgetown, when you think of Clyde’s, the mother ship of an array of eateries that have starred in the D.C.-area restaurant firmament for some 55 years, you think of a lot of things.
You might think of the star power of a Washington restaurant scene that included the late Stuart Davidson, who looked at the original site on M Street, then occupied by a biker bar, saw something on the order of New York class and glitz and called it Clyde’s. The rest is a lot of history.
You might think of the early days of Clyde’s, its back bar and omelet room and fabled bartenders. It quickly became a Georgetown and Washington institution, expanded its base with the acquisition of 1789, the Tombs and F. Scott’s — acquired from a man of similar Gatsby-like tastes, Richard McCooey — and, still locally, added the downtown Old Ebbitt Grill. Clyde’s restaurants popped up all over the region, in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia.
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