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Randy Paragary's Sporting Life:
Creating Eateries
By Don Lipper
In 1969, Randy Paragary was a 22-year-old rebel looking to start a little trouble. Sacramento, in order to shed its unsavory Wild West reputation, had made it illegal for more than a generation to open a saloon.
As soon as the law changed, Paragary, looking for a place to hang out with his gang, opened the Parapow Palace Saloon. What began as a quest for a buddy beer-joint has become a local dining empire.
Over the past 36 years, Paragary has parlayed a $2,000 investment into a family of nine award-winning restaurants in the Sacramento region.
Paragary is a Basque name, but as with many third-generation Americans, Randy Paragary, who moved to Sacramento when he was nine, has nothing from the old country, not even a family recipe.
His early exposure to the restaurant business happened when his father became the general manager of Pinecrest Resort in Tuolumne County. At 14, he was a dishwasher; at 16, a busboy. “I enjoyed the social side of the business,” remembers Paragary.
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