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{{quote|''"You can't ban me from your bistro! It's my ''chez'' away from ''chez''!"''
|'''Frasier'''
Want to make your restaurant sound like a high-class establishment serving gourmet French cuisine? Call it "Chez ''X''" (French for "''X's'' Place" or "''X's'' Home" or "At ''X's''". It's pronounced something like "shay"; the "z" is ''not'' pronounced.) Bonus points if ''X'' is either a French name or a French-sounding real or nonsense word. This naming scheme is used [[Truth in Television|in real life]] also, although it's not clear whether the fictional trope or the [[Real Life]] convention came first.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Many a New Yorker has joked about sampling the fine cuisine at "Chez Stadium" ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|get it?]]).<ref>For those unfamiliar with New York and/or baseball: [[wikipedia:Shea Stadium|Shea Stadium]], former home of [[Baseball|Major League Baseball]]'s [[Butt Monkey
* Applies, of course, to countless restaurants in France, but is somewhat subverted in that these are often simple, "family" restaurants. This naming technique also applies to many bars, often with a "beauf", low-class name such as "Chez Ginette", "Chez Bébert".
* Alice Waters' world-famous "Chez Panisse".
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