Ruth’s Chris Completes Purchase Of 22 Mitchell Restaurants

The Columbus Dispatch:

The sale of 19 Mitchell’s Fish Market restaurants, known as Columbus Fish Market locally, and 3 Cameron Mitchell steakhouses to Ruth’s Chris Steak House Inc. has been completed, the companies said today.

Ruth’s Chris bought the restaurants, which were owned by Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, for $92 million. Ruth’s Chris plans to expand the Mitchell’s Fish Market chain nationwide. Damon Liever, former Ruth’s Chris senior vice president of marketing, will be president of the new seafood division.

The 33-restaurant Cameron Mitchell chain was started in 1993 in Columbus. As a result of the sale, it now numbers 10.