Ruth's Chris Steak House

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"Sure, Ruth’s Chris is now a 100-plus unit chain of high-end steakhouses run by a hospitality group based in Florida. But that doesn’t change that more than 40 years ago, Ruth Fertel, a divorced mother of two, mortgaged her home for $22,000 to buy a 60-seat restaurant in New Orleans named Chris Steak House. When she relocated the chophouse, she renamed the restaurant Ruth’s Chris Steak House and ran it herself, doing everything from cutting meat to greeting politicos and celebrities until 1999, when failing health caused her to sell off controlling shares. Ruth’s Chris still make the steaks the way she insisted, sizzling and perfect." - Beth D’Addono