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- Legal Sea Foods is an American restaurant chain of casual-dining seafood restaurants mostly located in the Northeastern region of the United States. The current company headquarters is located in the South Boston Seaport District and as of 2022, the group operates 24 restaurants in five states, with most in the Greater Boston area. The restaurant serves over 7 million customers annually with an average restaurant size of 6,000 square feet (560 m2). Legal Sea Foods also operates an online fish market and ships fresh fish anywhere in the contiguous United States, as well as a retail products division. In addition to the traditional Legal Sea Foods branches, the company has operated some unique concepts over the years including Legal Test Kitchen, Legal C Bar, Legal Harborside, Legal Crossing, Legal Oysteria, Legal on the Mystic, and Legal Fish Bowl. Legal Sea Foods’ long-standing tagline is "If it isn’t fresh, it isn’t Legal!" On December 22, 2020, CEO Roger Berkowitz announced the sale of the restaurants portion of the business to PPX Hospitality Brands, a Medford-based hospitality group. Berkowitz will retain the rights to online and retail sales of products using the Legal Sea Foods name. Following the sale to PPX, The Boston Globe reported that Roger Berkowitz left several vendors unpaid, owing hundreds of thousands in debt. The founder of Legal Sea Foods, George Berkowitz died on February 20, 2022. George Berkowitz was 97. (en)