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nyteacher13
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Ruth's Chris...
I don't know - every time I see that name, it makes me cringe. I know it's a great steakhouse, but something about the name peeves me. Ruth's Chris? As opposed to Steve's Chris?
Does anyone know where this name came from?
SO curious! Maybe knowing how the name originated will make me less peeved by it... 
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Posted 2/27/07 5:31 PM  |
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CathyB
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Re: Ruth's Chris...
My brother's old roommate was a bartender there and I seem to remember her saying that the founder was named Ruth, and her son was Chris. So Ruth's Chris.
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| Posted 2/27/07 5:33 PM |
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Chatham-Chick
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Re: Ruth's Chris...
The chain was founded by the late Ruth Fertel, a single mother of two, in 1965, after she bought the existing Chris Steak House in New Orleans. In buying the restaurant, Fertel had to agree that the restaurant keep the "Chris" name for a specified period of time. After the original location sustained a kitchen fire, she relocated the restaurant about 1/2 mile (1 km) to the west on Broad Street and renamed the rebuilt establishment "Ruth's Chris" (under her purchase agreement, the name Chris Steak House could not be used at any other location, and she did not want to lose customers already familiar with the Chris name). Fertel started to franchise the restaurant in the 1970s.
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| Posted 2/27/07 5:34 PM |
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Phyl
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Re: Ruth's Chris...
I heard that Ruth loved a steakhouse that was named Chris, thus the name! She was on a radio show I was listening to.
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| Posted 2/27/07 5:35 PM |
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nyteacher13
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Re: Ruth's Chris...
AHHHHH!!!! Mystery solved! So it WASN'T some terrible error in grammar...
THANK YOU for clarifying!!!!
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| Posted 2/27/07 5:35 PM |
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Phyl
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Re: Ruth's Chris...
Posted by nyteacher13
AHHHHH!!!! Mystery solved! So it WASN'T some terrible error in grammar...
THANK YOU for clarifying!!!!
I know! It sounds so wierd!
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| Posted 2/27/07 5:36 PM |
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