Blue Frog Bar and Grill is a Western cuisine restaurant chain in China, operated by Blue Frog Catering Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a member of AmRest. Its headquarters are in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone in Pudong.[1]
History
It was established in 1999 by Bob Boyce, an American from Harlowton, Montana,[2] and its first restaurant was opened on South Maoming Road in Shanghai in 2002.[3] That year, Boyce had purchased a restaurant operation from Kathleen Lau,[4] a woman from Boston. Boyce arrived in China in 1994 for the purpose of developing his Chinese language skills. Lau had arrived in China in 1996 and started a restaurant that year in Guangzhou, where she had previously instructed courses for the English language. Boyce met Lau at her restaurant and the two collaborated on starting another restaurant.