Taulier : nm et f. (or sheet metal worker, ière tollier; one who works in the sheet metal).
Owner or manager of a Hotel.
This term is also used for the boss of a bistro.
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “I have to make a decision for the hotel: either I pay what I owe or I clear the floor. That’s what the note says, the note that the boss slipped under my door” in the novel Ask the dust (1939)