Authorized Sea Meals cafe chain offered to PPX Hospitality
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston-dependent cafe chain Authorized Sea Foods has been marketed, Legal’s main government reported Tuesday.
Legal’s 25 places will now be operated by Boston-primarily based PPX Hospitality Manufacturers, which owns the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse dining establishments and Strega Italian dining places, according to a statement.
“It’s a little bit of combined feelings,” Legal President and CEO Roger Berkowitz informed Boston.com. “It was a family business — specially a family members organization that offers immediately with the public. Just one of the fantastic issues, I suppose, about the cafe business in standard is that you come in call with so numerous individuals from so lots of walks of daily life.”
Berkowitz will keep ownership legal rights of the Lawful Sea Foods name for the company’s e-commerce and retail organization.
The initially Legal Sea Foods restaurant opened in 1968 upcoming to a fish current market that Berkowitz’s father, George Berkowitz, opened in 1950. Whilst most of its restaurants are in Massachusetts, the enterprise has expanded into New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
The coronavirus pandemic has been stress filled, Berkowitz claimed.
“Would I have ordinarily picked out to promote?” he claimed. “Probably not.”
Economical terms of the offer where by not disclosed.
