What is Ruths Chris Steak House, Inc.?
Mr. Miller: We are the leading fine dining restaurant chain in the world. We specialize in US prime beef, and have 93 restaurants operating in the domestic US, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mexico and Puerto Rico. We have a concept that has been around for almost 41 years. The business was started by a great woman, Ruth Fertel. She started the business in 1965 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was a single mom who went out and mortgaged her home to buy a restaurant called Chris’s Steak House. A few years later, there was a fire at the original Chris’s Steak House and she was required to relocate that restaurant up the street, and she lost the rights to use the Chris’s Steak House name. So she added her name to the front of it, and that is where we got the tongue-twisting name of Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Over the history of our business, it has become known worldwide as a great fine dining steakhouse. Ruth owned the business herself for many years. She took on an investment partner, Madison
