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George Berkowitz, Legal Sea Foods founder, dead at 97

George Berkowitz founded Legal Sea Foods in 1950 as a fish market next to his Russian immigrant father's butcher shop and grocery in the suburb of Cambridge, Massachusetts

By Undercurrent News | March 1, 2022 15:32 GMT
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George Berkowitz, the founder of the Boston, Massachusetts-based seafood restaurant chain Legal Sea Foods, has died, the Boston Globe reports. He was 97 years old. [...]

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