The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant and Market is a chain of seafood restaurants inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. As of January 2009, 31 Bubba Gump's restaurants operate worldwide.

Twenty-two of these locations are in the United States, two are located in Mexico, and seven are in Japan, Bali, the Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong. The first Bubba Gump's restaurant opened in 1996 in Monterey, California by Viacom Consumer Products, the distributor of Forrest Gump. Viacom is owner of Paramount Pictures, and also owns the Rusty Pelican restaurant chain.

The Bubba Gump restaurant is named after the movie's main characters Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue and Forrest Gump. Bubba suggested the shrimping business and ultimately Forest pursued the idea after Bubba's untimely death when they served in the Vietnam War. San Clemente, California-based Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

Restaurants, Inc. and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Intl.

LLC operate or franchise the like-named restaurant as well as "Capi's Italian Kitchen", "Mai Tai Bar", and the sole-remaining Rusty Pelican restaurant in Newport Beach, California. Rusty Pelican locations in other cities were sold to Landry Seafood Restaurants and are no longer related.

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