Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc. is the largest privately held restaurant group in the United States and a distinctive leader in hospitality. Lettuce currently owns, licenses or manages 115 establishments nationally. Founded in June 1971 by Richard Melman and Jerry A. Orzoff with the opening of R.J. Grunts and today, thanks to the creativity of our partners, we proudly serve guests at more than 50 concepts ranging from fast casual to fine dining restaurants. Lettuce’s extensive network of brands and locations operate under the leadership of more than 80 equity partners as well as a team of experts across operations, culinary, design, events, marketing, technology, loyalty programming and more.