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Lettuce company history timeline

1833

Excerpts from Benjamin F. Barker's personal letters to his brother Jacob Barker as Chicago incorporates in 1833.

1971

Open on Earth June 10, 1971, Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants began as a result of Rich Melman’s innovative ideas combined with the business acumen of Jerry A. Orzoff.

1990

1990 An automatic salad packager was developed, which bagged and sealed chopped lettuce in three, five and ten pound bags.

1991

1991 heralded the opening the largest refrigerated produce warehouse of its kind in the world at Marina, California.

1993

1993 marked the 50thanniversary of business operations, and groundbreaking for the new Soledad, California salad processing facility.

2005

The next year,2005, Dole Berry Company introduced a new strawberry variety called Albion, unique in that it grows best when the day length is long and it is quite disease resistant.

2012

The concept would later be brought back in River North in 2012 by R.J., Jerrod and Molly Melman.

2013

Lettuce Fly was created with the opening of Big Bowl in 2013 at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5.

2020

Doctor Neil Gale, Ph.D.Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 8:14:00 PM CSTEd Debevic's, the correct spelling was/is not a Melman's "Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises," restaurant.

Additional virtual concepts opened in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic including Ben Pao, Vong’s Thai Kitchen, Coastal Soups & Salads and more.

2021

In 2021, sister restaurant, Lil Ba-Ba-Reeba! opens in River North.

2022

BruNeuThursday, March 10, 2022 at 4:38:00 PM CSTThat was Deerfield and there was a Shaw's/Ed's combo location.DeleteRepliesReply

The first Lettuce restaurant in Texas opens with Aba in Austin, TX. Look out for Aba’s newest location coming to Bal Harbour Shops in Miami, Florida in 2022.

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