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Fresh Seafood Every Day McCormick & Schmick's sets standard

By SCOTT CRONICK At The Shore, 609-272-7017

Published: Nov 13, 2008

Chain restaurants and fresh ingredients don't normally go together. But when it comes to McCormick & Schmick's, the new seafood restaurant inside Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, freshness is given new meaning.

While most restaurants have a hard time reinventing a menu twice a year, McCormick & Schmick's doesn't only offer a new menu daily it offers two of them; one for lunch and one for dinner.

"We bring in product every morning, every day of the week," says general manager J. Holmes, adding that the restaurant offers 85 to 110 made-to-order dishes daily. "The menu is adjusted every day based on availability and freshness. As wild salmon or halibut run, they go on the menu. If we can't get it fresh, we don't have it."

The Harrah's location is McCormick & Schmick's 87th restaurant - approximately 45 use the McCormick & Schmick's name - and the first one in a casino. The first McCormick & Schmick's opened approximately 35 years ago when Bill McCormick and Doug Schmick teamed up in the early 1970s in Portland, Ore. More

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