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Isaac Burton Tigrett (born November 28, 1948) is an American businessman, best known as the co-founder of Hard Rock Café and House of Blues. He is the widower of the late Maureen Cox Tigrett (formerly Starkey), the ex-wife of Beatle drummer Ringo Starr .
Isaac Burton Tigrett, a native of Jackson Tennessee, is the Founder of the original London Hard Rock Cafe in 1971, which he formed at age 22 with partner, Peter Morton.
Peter Alan Morton (born August 7, 1947) is an American businessman. He is the co-founder of the Hard Rock Café (along with Isaac Burton Tigrett), a chain of casual dining restaurants.
In 1971. Tigrett, then nineteen, joined forces with pal Peter Morton, who at the time was managing his father’s restaurant, the Great American Disaster. The two young entrepreneurs took London...
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Peter Morton along with partner Isaac Tigrett founded the Hard Rock Cafe in London, England in 1971, launching what evolved into one of the world's best-known; highest-grossing; and most influential restaurant creations. Years later Morton sold his share of the business for several millions but he continues to work as a Hollywood restaurateur and h...
Becoming a restaurateur must have been in the genes for Peter Morton. He was born in 1948 into a family well known for the Morton's of Chicago restaurant. After earning a business degree at the University of Denver, he left Colorado and headed to London for a little rest and relaxation before starting a job with a Wall Streetconglomerate. It was wh...
For Morton, the beginning of his ascent in the restaurant business started in 1970. After spending time in London, Morton came to the conclusion that there was a void in burger joints in the British capital and attempted to change that by opening the Great American Disaster restaurant. He later boasted, according to Nation's Restaurant News in Febr...
It was quite a run for Morton and Tigrett, who had no idea of what they were starting in London. Hard Rock grew to inspire a whole slew of entertainment-theme restaurants, all trying to copy the burger and rock-n-roll aura of the Hard Rock Cafes. Without Hard Rock Cafe, restaurants such as Planet Hollywood, which Morton sued claiming the restaurant...
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Bates, James. "Hard Rock Cafe chain, a Yankee Original, Sold to British." Los Angeles Times,8 June 1996. Bates, James. "Morton, Partners Sell Hard Rock Interest to Tune of $410 million." Los Angeles Times,8 June 1996. "Harvey's Casino Resorts and Hard Rock Hotel Complete Negotiations." Two-Ten Communications Online. Available from http://www.twoten.press.net/97/07/02/headlines/Business_Harveys_Hotel. "The History of The Hard Rock Cafe." Baltimore Hard Rock Cafe. Available from http://www.balt...
Jun 12, 2013 · There he met Peter Morton, son of a Chicago restaurant owner, and the two opened the first Hard Rock Cafe in 1971. The restaurant–the first theme restaurant ever–was an instant success, and Isaac’s exploits soon became the stuff of legend.
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Nov 8, 1996 · And here’s Isaac Tigrett on the other side: a man who was only 13 when his younger brother died in his arms, starting him on a spiritual quest that eventually led him to India and Sai Baba, the...
