title: Roy Ackerman
text: # Roy Ackerman
  
  Roy Kenneth Ackerman CBE (22 February 1942 – 16 May 2017) was an English restaurateur who owned the Gay Hussar and L'Etoile restaurants and published the Ackerman Guides and Egon Ronay restaurant guides.
  
  ## Career
  
  Ackerman started his first career with apprenticeship training in the kitchen and then opened his restaurant, Quincy's Bistro in 1975.
  
  