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The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant in Long Beach, California.
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Outside of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. in Times Square, NYC.

The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant and Market is a chain of seafood restaurants inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. As of January 2009, 31 Bubba Gump's restaurants operate worldwide. Twenty-two of these locations are in the United States, two are located in Mexico, and seven are in Japan, Bali, the Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

The first Bubba Gump's restaurant opened in 1996 in Monterey, California by Viacom Consumer Products, the distributor of Forrest Gump. Viacom is owner of Paramount Pictures, and also owns the Rusty Pelican restaurant chain. The Bubba Gump restaurant is named after the movie's main characters Benjamin Bufford "Bubba" Blue and Forrest Gump, who were inspired to go into the shrimping business per Bubba's suggestion.

History

San Clemente, California-based Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurants, Inc. and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Intl. LLC operate or franchise the like-named restaurant as well as "Capi's Italian Kitchen", "Mai Tai Bar", and the sole-remaining Rusty Pelican restaurant in Newport Beach, California. Rusty Pelican locations in other cities were sold to Landry Seafood Restaurants and are no longer related.[1]

The menu consists mostly of shrimp dishes, but also other seafood, as well as Southern and Cajun cuisine, due to the main character Forrest coming from Alabama.

References

  1. ^ Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
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