$500M restaurant firm's success lies in milkshakes, closing for Super Bowl

Cameron Mitchell's multi-brand national restaurant company, which has a stable of high-end eateries and a growing presence in the region — including a new splashy, $10 million Ocean Prime in Sarasota — can credit one basic menu item as the key to the success: a milkshake.

Milkshakes have become the emblem of customer service for Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, which has nearly 50 restaurants around the country, including five on the Gulf Coast. It owns the Ocean Prime brand (with Sarasota, Tampa and Naples among its 20 locations nationwide) as well as Del Mar in Naples and The Pearl in Tampa.