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Ruth’s Chris Steak House Celebrates 5 Years in Huntsville

Restaurant honors seventeen team members who have been with the company since opening.

 

HUNTSVILLE (November 4, 2011) – Ruth’s Chris Steak House celebrated its 5th anniversary in Huntsville by recognizing seventeen team members who have been with the company since the Huntsville restaurant’s opening on October 23, 2006. 

 

“The tenure of our team is impressive to me, especially in an industry known for high employee turnover rates,” states Stephen Ryberg, General Manager of Ruth’s Chris Steak House.  “Nearly a quarter of our team members have been with us since the restaurant opened in 2006,” adds Ryberg.

 

To kick-off the celebration, Mayor Tommy Battle of Huntsville and Mayor Paul Finley of Madison presided over a ribbon cutting ceremony orchestrated by the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County. Following the ribbon cutting, team members who celebrated five years of service with Ruth’s Chris Steak House were honored in a private employee appreciation event.

 

Ruth’s Chris is located at the Embassy Suites at 800 Monroe Street, Huntsville, Alabama. The restaurant serves lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily and dinner from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information, call 256.539.3930 or visit www.ruthschris.net .

 

Photographs attached.

 

 

About Ruth’s Chris Steak House - Huntsville

From its humble beginnings on Broad Street in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1965 to its current position as an internationally acclaimed restaurant, Ruth’s Chris welcomes steak enthusiasts in thirty-four states and nine countries worldwide. 

 

Featuring custom-aged, USDA prime steaks, served with the signature sizzle and legendary hospitality, Sizzling Steaks Concepts’ franchise partners Jim Brooks, Phil Brooks, Mark Oswald and Nancy Oswald are dedicated to honoring the vision and traditions set forth by Ruth’s Chris Steak House founder, Ruth Fertel. 

 

Opening their first Ruth’s Chris restaurant in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta in 1986, Sizzling Steak Concepts is now the largest Ruth’s Chris franchisee worldwide, with four restaurants in metropolitan Atlanta (Buckhead, Centennial Olympic Park, Sandy Springs, and Kennesaw), two in Alabama (Birmingham and Huntsville) and three in South Carolina (Columbia, Greenville, and Myrtle Beach) and plans for further expansion throughout the southeast.

 

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MEDIA CONTACT:

 

Stephanie Tobben
Public Relations & Marketing Manager

Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Sizzling Steaks Concepts Franchise Group

Metro Atlanta, GA  |  Birmingham, AL |  Huntsville, AL  
Columbia, SC  | Greenville, SC  |  Myrtle Beach, SC


[email] stephaniet@ruthschris.net

[phone] 404.252.9300

[fax] 404.255.3100

 

[mailing address]  5788 Roswell Road, NE,  Atlanta, Georgia  30328

 

 

Stephanie Tobben
Public Relations & Marketing Manager

Metro Atlanta, GA  |  Birmingham, AL |  Huntsville, AL  
Columbia, SC  | Greenville, SC  |  Myrtle Beach, SC