shrimp company type subsidiary industry seafood restaurant founded monterey california 1996 headquarters houston texas number of locations 44 restaurants 1 area served united states mexico malaysia london hong kong indonesia japan philippines owner landry s inc. website www.bubbagump.com the bubba gump shrimp co. restaurant in long beach california . the bubba gump shrimp co. restaurant in times square new york city . the bubba gump shrimp company restaurant and market is a seafood restaurant chain inspired by the 1994 film forrest gump . as of july 2015 forty bubba gump shrimp co. restaurants operate worldwide . twenty nine of these locations are in the united states four are in mexico three are in malaysia and one each in london hong kong indonesia japan and the philippines . the company is based in houston texas and has been a division of landry s restaurants since 2010 . the first bubba gump restaurant opened in 1996 in monterey california by viacom consumer products . that firm s parent company viacom is owner of paramount pictures the distributor of forrest gump and also owns the rusty pelican restaurant chain . the bubba gump restaurant is named after the film s characters benjamin buford bubba blue and forrest gump . in the film bubba suggested getting in the shrimping business and ultimately forrest pursued the idea after bubba s death in the vietnam war . contents 1 history 2 employee social media policy 3 notable employees 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1995 paramount pictures approached rusty pelican restaurants inc. with a desire to create a restaurant based on a theme from paramount s 1994 film forrest gump . the bubba gump shrimp co. was created as a result . within a year the bubba gump shrimp co. created a concept idea for the restaurant chain which was then licensed by paramount licensing inc. in 1996 the first bubba gump shrimp co. restaurant was opened in monterey california ; its success led to its franchising on an international scale . 2 in november 2010 landry s inc. acquired bubba gump shrimp co. for an undisclosed amount . 3 the bubba gump shrimp co. purchase also included a lone rusty pelican in newport beach california . bubba gump restaurant in hong kong like the name suggests bubba gump shrimp co. s menu consists mostly of shrimp dishes and other seafood as well as southern and cajun cuisine . the restaurant offers dishes named after characters in the movie like jenny s catch and the restaurant s bestseller forrest s seafood feast . 4 5 restaurants display movie memorabilia throughout the restaurant . guests can play forrest gump movie trivia and can signal their waiter with a stop forrest stop sign . bubba gump shrimp co. also has a children s menu . employee social media policy edit in 2013 a former bubba gump employee claimed that the social media policy in the company s employee handbook had a restrictive effect on employees rights by prohibiting them from discussing their jobs online . 6 in 2015 a national labor relations board administrative law judge ruled that bubba gump did not violate employees rights as they did not explicitly prohibit employees from discussing job related subjects but only expected them to do so in a civil manner . 7 there have been many cases in the last few years in which the national labor relations board found companies social media policies to be overbroad and ruled in favor of the employee s . 8 notable employees edit actor chris pratt was discovered in 2000 while working as a waiter at the bubba gump shrimp co. in maui hawaii . 9 he waited on the table of actor director rae dawn chong who had starred in one of pratt s favorite films commando . chong offered pratt a role in a short movie she was directing at the time . references edit http www.bubbagump.com locations.asp bubba gump shrimp company page . landry s acquires bubba gump shrimp co. . nrn.com . mackie drew september 5 2014 . 15 ways forrest gump changed pop culture and is still with us 20 years later . people magazine . bubba gump menu pdf . oldham douglas m. 7 july 2015 . outlier ... or national labor relations board shift on social media policies . the national law review . barnes & thornberg llp . retrieved 13 november 2015 . landry s inc. v. flores case number 32 ca 118213 . retrieved 13 november 2015 . nestor alexander 26 july 2015 . surprise nlrb approves employer s challenged social media policy . the national law review . allen matkins leck gamble mallory & natsis llp . issn 2161 3362 . retrieved 13 november 2015 . kaleem aftab 30 july 2014 . chris pratt from parks and recreation to guardians of the galaxy . the independent . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to bubba gump shrimp company . official website ny magazine bubba gump shrimp co. v t e landry s inc. tilman j. fertitta entertainment destinations downtown aquarium denver downtown aquarium houston galveston island historic pleasure pier golden nugget atlantic city golden nugget las vegas golden nugget laughlin kemah boardwalk restaurants bubba gump shrimp company claim jumper fish tales mccormick & schmick s morton s the steakhouse muer seafood restaurants rainforest cafe saltgrass steak house t rex cafe tower of the americas vic & anthony s steakhouse v t e winston groom s forrest gump 1986 characters forrest gump films forrest gump 1994 music forrest gump soundtrack forrest gump original motion picture score score other gump satire gump and co. sequel novel bubba gump shrimp company retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bubba gump shrimp company & oldid 743465345 categories restaurant franchisestheme restaurantsseafood restaurants in the united statesretail companies established in 1996companies based in houston1996 establishments in californiahidden categories commons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa olfran ais italianoportugu ssuomi edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 19 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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