Company type | Private |
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Industry | Restaurants |
Founded | Cambridge, Massachusetts, fish market (1950); restaurant (1968) |
Founder | George Berkowitz |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Number of locations | 26 (2023 [1]) |
Area served | Eastern Seaboard |
Key people | Roger Berkowitz, President & CEO Rich Vellante, Executive Chef Sandy Block, MW, VP of Beverage |
Products | seafood |
Brands |
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Services | Hospitality |
Revenue | US$200 million [2] (2020) |
Number of employees | 3,500 [2] (2020) |
Website | legalseafoods |
Footnotes / references [3][4] |
Legal Sea Foods is an American restaurant chain[5] of casual-dining seafood restaurants primarily located in the Northeastern United States.
The current company headquarters is located in the South Boston Seaport District. As of 2022, the group operates 25[6] restaurants in five states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia), with most in the Greater Boston area.[7][1] The restaurant serves over 7 million customers annually[8] with an average restaurant size of 6,000 square feet (560 m2).[9] Legal Sea Foods also operates an online fish market and ships fresh fish anywhere in the contiguous United States, as well as a retail products division.
In addition to the traditional Legal Sea Foods branches, the company has operated some unique concepts over the years, including Legal Test Kitchen, Legal C Bar, Legal Harborside, Legal Crossing, Legal Oysteria, Legal on the Mystic, and Legal Fish Bowl.
Legal Sea Foods’ long-standing tagline is "If it isn’t fresh, it isn’t Legal!"[10]
In December 2020, CEO Roger Berkowitz announced the sale of the restaurant's portion of the business to PPX Hospitality Brands, a Massachusetts-based hospitality group.
The founder of Legal Sea Foods, George Berkowitz, died on February 20, 2022.[11] George Berkowitz was 97.[12]
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