Legal Sea Foods is an American restaurant chain of upscale casual-dining seafood restaurants. The company was founded by George Berkowitz who opened the Legal Cash Market grocery store in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he opened the first restaurant next door to the market in 1968. The current company headquarters is located in Boston and as of May 4, 2017, the group operates 35 restaurants in six states, plus the District of Columbia, with most in the Greater Boston area.The restaurant serves over 7 million customers annually.