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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]
Tru was a French restaurant located in the Streeterville neighborhood in Chicago. Tru was opened in 1999 by Rick Tramonto and Gale Gand with the backing of Rich Melman's Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. It was a Michelin one-star restaurant since the Chicago guidebook's inception in 2011; in 2017 the restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars. [1]
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 ...
In 2017, Mon Ami Gabi at Paris Las Vegas was named one of the top 100 restaurants in the country for gross food and beverage sales by Restaurant Business. The restaurant grossed $17.2 million in sales and served an estimated 300,000 meals. [3] Sotelino serves as head chef of the restaurant group and his son, Mark Sotelino, is a supervising partner.
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]
“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. ...
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 ...