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wildfire grill -lsb- http://www.leye.com/company/rich.htm lettuce entertain you enterprises -rsb- molly , r.j. , & jerrod united states usa 200px 1942 martha 20070516 wildfire.jpg rich melman
 rich melman chairman of the board
rich melman

rich melman is the founder of lettuce entertain you enterprises , a privately held restaurant company with more than 70 venues .
melman serves as chairman of the board of leye .
he creates restaurant concepts .
as such he is a corporate executive who sees himself as an artist .
in 1971 , melman and jerry a. orzoff founded r.j. grunts in lincoln park in chicago .
melman and orzoff continued their partnership , developing a number of restaurants , until orzoff died in 1981 .
melman continued his philosophy of `` partnership '' and now has 37 working partners .
