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Vegetarian restaurants and vegan restaurants

the oldest continually operating vegetarian restaurant is Hiltl Restaurant in Zurich. It began in 1898 as the Vegetarians' Home and Teetotaller Cafe, and was renamed after being purchased by Ambrosius Hiltl in 1903. Hiltl was a cobbler who had adopted a vegetarian diet for health reasons. In Switzerland at the time, the consumption of meat was a display of social class&mdash;to not eat meat was to be poor, and not typically something to be sought out in a restaurant. Most customers were women, many were creative professionals, and others were there for religious or health reasons.