A Chicago restaurant company with an increasingly national presence, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc. (LEYE) is an iconoclast within an industry of food giants. Structured as a private company with each affiliated restaurant operating as its own limited liability corporation, the mothership is a restaurant management company that employs 6,000 people at the corporate level and in more than 90 upscale and casual restaurants, mostly in the Chicago area, under 40 separate names.
Founded by Rich Melman, scion of a Chicago restaurant family, LEYE began as a renegade operation in 1971 that focused on hippie-based cuisine and goofy eatery names (Jonathan Livingston Seafood, for one). Today, the company operates a portfolio that ranges from solo fine-dining establishments like Chicago’s Everest to its first foray into upscale airport cuisine, scheduled to open at O’Hare Airport’s international terminal in April 2014.
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