How many restaurants did Paris have by 1804?

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By 1804, there were more than 500 restaurants in Paris. This rapid growth in the number of public eating establishments was largely driven by the French Revolution, which led many chefs and cooks who had previously been employed in private aristocratic households to open their own businesses or work in restaurant kitchens.12