Ruth’s Chris Steak House
1000 Darden Center Dr, Orlando, FL 32837
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Approximately 95-100% of the Ruth’s Chris Steak House restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
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Ruth's Chris Steak House is an upscale dining steakhouse brand that began when Ruth Fertel mortgaged her home in 1965 to buy Chris Steak House in New Orleans and, after a 1976 fire forced a move, renamed the restaurant Ruth's Chris Steak House. Headquarters for this brand row is at 1000 Darden Center Dr in Orlando, Florida. Ruth's Chris Steak House is the concept, and the company operates as its franchisor with a little more than half of locations franchised to partners while the balance are company restaurants. Darden Restaurants is its parent company. Darden completed its acquisition of Ruth's Hospitality Group in June 2023, folding the steakhouse into its fine-dining portfolio. Restaurants operate across many U.S. states and into Canada as a national fine-dining steak footprint known for USDA Prime steaks served sizzling on 500-degree plates. The format is upscale dining, serving lunch and dinner across steakhouse menus with elevated sides and hospitality-driven service. Typical units seat about 250 guests in roughly 7,000 square feet. Ruth's Chris itself is not separately listed as a brand-level equity under Darden and continues as the group's flagship steakhouse brand.
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