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Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants
Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants is an independent, family-owned restaurant group based in Chicago that owns, manages and licenses more than 110 restaurants and counting. We were founded when Richard Melman and Jerry A. Orzoff opened R.J. Grunts in 1971. Today, thanks to the creativity and dedication of our 95 partners and over 7,500 team members, we proudly serve guests at more than 60 restaurant concepts ranging from fast casual to fine dining in Illinois, Florida, Minnesota, Maryland, Nevada, Texas, Virginia, and Washington D.C. For more information, visit www.lettuce.com or follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
Mission
Lettuce Entertain You's founder, Richard Melman, has instilled in Lettuce the guiding philosophy of not being the biggest, the richest or the most well-known restaurant company, but rather in being the best we can be. Lettuce places enormous value on our teams and their continued success and our Culture of Caring is at the heart of everything we do: Caring for ourselves. Caring for each other. Caring for our guests.
Additional Culture Details
“Lettuce Entertain You started because of ideas. We are a group of entrepreneurs who work under one umbrella and it’s our culture of caring that bonds us.” - Richard Melman, Founder & Chairman of Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants
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