This well-liked seafood restaurant is about to be sold
Legal Sea Foods is planned to sell all 28 other restaurants at PPX Brands Hospitality.
In 1950, Harry Berkowitz opened the grocery store at Cambridge, MA, and 18 years later, his son George opened one of the seafoodrestaurant nearby. Within 50 years that followed, more,Legal Sea Foods would expand to nearly three dozen sites mainly concentrated in the northeast, with several restaurants in Massachusetts and some far south than Washington, DC and Northern Virginia.
Several Legal Sea Foods restaurantshave recently closed, Including six closed shutters permanently during thePandemic of Covid-19. Today, restaurant lists of the restaurant 28 active locations (at its height in 2018, the chain had 35 points), all of which are planned to be sold to an investment group PPX Hospitality Brands in the coming days, reports theBoston Globe.
This will represent a radical change of the beloved seafood chain, which under the current CEO Roger Berkowitz, remainsA family-owned business. The terms of sale include all Legal Sea Foods restaurants and a 70,000 square foot food processing plant and a food safety laboratory.
However, the Berkowitz family will keep its control over an online business selling online that will continue to operate under the name of Legal Sea Foods. PPX Brands Hospitality will add the restaurants, which also intends to keep the name of its other operations, including an international reporting chain, Grill restaurantsunderlying current.
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