King's Seafood Company is a family-owned and operated restaurant and seafood distribution company based in Costa Mesa, California,[1] with restaurants in California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and Washington. The company's restaurants include Water Grill (7), King's Fish House (12), three steakhouses (555 East in Long Beach, Lou & Mickey's in San Diego, and Meat On Ocean in Santa Monica), and Pier Burger.[1]
History
Cousins Jeff and Sam King launched the company as University Restaurant Group in 1983 as a successor to their family's long-running restaurant operations.[2] The cousins' parents, brothers Mickey and Lou King, opened their King's Coffee Shop in Huntington Park, California, in 1945. The brothers sold to Tiny Naylor's in 1982. Two years later, their sons opened 555 East