Gerbeaud died on 8 November 1919, and bequeathed the store to his wife Ester who headed it until 1940. The shop was nationalized in 1948 and renamed "Vörösmarty", after the poet Mihály Vörösmarty, a name it held until March 1984, when it returned to its historical name. In 1995, German businessman Erwin Franz Müller bought "Gerbeaud" and had it renovated extensively. The traces of the last 50 years have thus disappeared, and today the café shines in the style built by Emil Gerbeaud.
