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By 1976 the company had 5 restaurants and a band called Fresh Lettuce. [4] The partners continued expanding the company's network of restaurants. By the mid-1980s, the company employed over 2,000 people and had annual revenues of $40 million. [4] Since its founding the company has opened 130 restaurants, with 70 concepts. [5]
Maggiano's Little Italy (Italian: [madˈdʒaːno]) is an American casual dining restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American cuisine. The company was founded in Chicago's River North neighborhood, at Clark Street and Grand Avenue, in 1991 by Rich Melman's Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (LEYE). It was named after Melman's late partner ...
Rich Melman (born 1942) is an American businessman, and the founder and chairman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, a privately held restaurant company with more than 100 venues. [2] [3] In 1971, Melman and Jerry A. Orzoff founded R.J. Grunts in Lincoln Park in Chicago. Melman and Orzoff continued their partnership, developing a number of ...
Corner Bakery Cafe was founded by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, a Chicago-based restaurant group. [1] It was sold to Brinker International, and then in 2005 to Il Fornaio (America) Corporation. [citation needed] Roark Capital Group bought Il Fornaio in 2011. [2]
The concept for Mon Ami Gabi was created after a family dinner that Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (LEYE) founder Rich Melman had at Ambria, a fine dining French restaurant owned by LEYE. Melman enjoyed the more casual French bistro dishes prepared by the French cooks and in 1998, LEYE opened the first Mon Ami Gabi in the Lincoln Park ...
“You don’t necessarily see your colleagues every day,” says Samantha Henry, a partner in The Oakville Grill & Cellar and 167 Green Street Events, two entities in Chicago’s Lettuce ...
Ever since the Lettuce Entertain You restaurant group announced the West Loop project would have the largest California-only wine list in the city, I decided to, shall we say, do some homework. ...
If you ever were going to ask someone to marry you at a restaurant, this should be your choice. Outstanding in every way. I especially loved the soft piano music that was close to our table. The ...