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Restaurateur Jeremy King found fame and fortune on a roll of the dice

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Pure chance led to the co-owner of Le Caprice and the Wolseley’s choice of career

Jeremy King is a devotee of the dice. The restaurateur behind the Wolseley and the Delaunay gave up his place at Cambridge University in the 1970s on a throw of the dice after reading George Cockcroft’s cult novel The Dice Man.

“It was something I did casually about deciding where I should go for dinner,” King said in a speech about his career last year. “[But] then I ended up throwing the dice on my life.”

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