John Allen Hill (played by Keene Curtis) is the owner of Melville's, the seafood restaurant located directly above Cheers. Though Melville's was mentioned often throughout the series, Hill did not first appear until season 9, during which he bought the restaurant and first became its proprietor. Hill is a pompous, acerbic, older man with a disdain for the Cheers gang, he considers them to be low-class buffoons. In the season nine episode entitled Achilles Hill, Sam dated Hill's daughter Valerie as a way to get back at Hill for his condescending attitude towards the himself and Cheers.