Luke's Lobster

Please join us tomorrow at Orange Bike Brewing Company for a discussion on sustainability in the tourism industry in Maine and beyond. We'll be addressing climate change, over-tourism, and environmental degradation, and how we can all contribute to more sustainable practices. Event Details: 📅 When: Tomorrow, Tue, June 25 📍 Where: Orange Bike Brewing Company 🌱 What: Sustainability in Tourism Meet our esteemed panelists: - Topaz Smith Founder of EN-NOBLE (Moderator) - Rob Holmes Founder of GLP Films - Dr. Tracy Michaud Associate Professor of Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Southern Maine - Ben Conniff Chief Innovation Officer at Luke's Lobster - Tae Chong, DEI and Multicultural Business Consultant, former Portland City Council member Join us for this important conversation and learn how we can all make a difference. [Learn more here] https://lnkd.in/ef24Xhgv Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! Onward together, Tom Lisa Parham Jones Jeff Marks CLIMATEWORK MAINE City of Portland, Maine Troy Moon Hannah Pingree Rachel Talbot Ross 1% for the Planet Celine Miranda Jenny Kalanges B Lab U.S. & Canada Janet Mills Portland Trails Bicycle Coalition of Maine Dajuan Eubanks Anne Marisic Yale School of Management Luke Truman Dan Carlson Katie Fletcher Dan Burgess Jeremy Pare Nina Scheepers Joe Powers Maine Venture Fund Renee Kelly

An absolute honor to have our flagship location in our hometown included in The New York Times 36 Hours in Portland, Maine amongst so many other amazing businesses! Thanks to our team at Portland Pier for being ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✨SURPRISE!✨We’re now open in Provincetown🍾 A couple things to know about this amazing new Cape Cod location: 📍We’re located at 317 Commercial Street, just steps from the ferry! 🦞 For now we will operate as a take-out window only. Stay tuned here for details on when we’ll open the entire restaurant with an expanded menu and full bar. ⏰ Open daily 11-8 🌭 Beyond our classic seafood rolls we’ll also have local delicacies like Linguiça rolls, fried seafood by the half pint, and more! 🏳️🌈 We will be donating a portion of sales from our opening week to Summer of Sass, a local organization that offers summers in Provincetown to LGBTQI 18-20 year old from oppressive areas in the US so they can live and work in a community that celebrates them. We are excited to join this amazing community and share our food and Maine-way hospitality with locals and visitors alike!

5 years at Portland Pier🥹 Please bear with us as we get a little sappy here.⁠ Bringing a flagship restaurant home to Maine after 10 years opening restaurants around the country was always the dream. Finding a home at the end of a dilapidated pier and rehabbing it back to its former glory as a working wharf was the vision. Being voted Portland Old Port's Best Lobster Roll & Best Waterfront Dining was the cherry on top. But the people; the team of servers, bartenders, managers, and cooks, the community of locals, the visitors from away, the fishermen, the students of the Lift All Boats program, those people and the impact they have had on the last 5 years was something we never could have imagined. Here's to many, many more years wading through king tides, serving up lobster rolls, and watching the sunsets from the back deck. Thank you, all ❤️🦞

Each year during the Maine Way trip we give out 4 awards to our GMs; the Sales Shark award to someone who focuses on sales growth and development, the Founders award to someone who embodies our founding principles and core values, New GM of the Year to someone who has made great impact in their first year, and GMs Choice to any candidate deemed worthy by their piers. This year we were proud to present these awards to Federico Barona out of our Garment District shack, Matt Conner out of Rittenhouse in Philly, Sean Doherty out at our San Fransisco shack, a tie for GMs choice between long tenured GMs, Thanh Le at Grand Central and Imer Huertas at Back Bay in Boston. Congrats to you all!! 🍾 We were also extremely proud to present the Moxie Award, an award that is voted on by the entire company and recognizes someone who is the dictionary definition of moxie; determined, creative, and strong-willed to accomplish any task. We were proud to present this award to our two amazing Directors of Operations, Maria Dawn Alicea and William Fechtmann. Photo of them receiving their award post chugging a Moxie (because Maine way, of course!) Thanks to our sponsors, Qu POS, Restaurant365, Cambridge Insurance Advisors, US Foods, Verrill, and North Nova! Luke Holden Bryan Holden Jim Gensheimer Ben Conniff

A day spent volunteering with our GMs at Maine Needs and Cultivating Community was good for the soul ❤️ Thankful for this group of leaders who are ready, willing, and happy to roll up their sleeves to make an impact on our local Portland, Maine community. After all, that is the Maine way 💪 Thanks to our sponsors, Qu POS, Restaurant365, Cambridge Insurance Advisors, Verrill, US Foods, and North Nova Seafoods!

Maine Way 2024 has begun!🦞 Each May we bring our GMs from across the country together in Maine to kick off the busy summer season together and so they can get a first hand look at how the lobsters they sell in rolls get from the coast of Maine to their restaurants across the country. We’re excited for a few days filled with lobster, volunteering, eating, and sight seeing! Thanks to our sponsors of this trip, Qu POS, Verrill, Restaurant365, US Foods, Cambridge Insurance Advisors, and North Nova Seafoods Ltd.!

#9 in NY ✅ Yesterday was our grand opening day in the iconic Rockefeller Center! 💪 It was a busy day serving Maine-style lobster rolls to visitors and locals alike but this team, with their infectious enthusiasm and stellar hospitality, made it look easy! 👫 Our GM Darren, who you might recognize from his long tenure at our Upper West Side shack, is pictured here with one of his regulars from the UWS who made her way downtown to support Darren and all of us on the big day. 🦞 The magic of serving up fresh, Maine lobster in the heart of Manhattan is never lost on us. Yesterday we had lobster knuckle and claw meat direct from the Port Clyde Fishermen's Coop. 🍻 We are proud to be pouring Rhythm Brewing Co., a Black female founded local brewery. Thanks to Alissa, pictured here with our fearless leader Maria Dawn Alicea, and her whole team for coming in to celebrate with us! ❤️ All of that, that is the Maine way Maria Dawn Alicea Luke Holden Ben Conniff Jim Gensheimer Virginia Rector-Birbal Steven Song Meaghan Dillon Bryan Holden Garret Currier Michael Holden Shelbi McCarthy

Thanks for including our Rockefeller Center opening (tomorrow!) in this great round up of other openings, Florence Fabricant and The New York Times!

Ben Conniff joins the prestigious speaker line-up at the Blue Food Innovation Summit. Ben is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Luke's Lobster, a vertically-integrated seafood company serving seafood they buy directly from fishermen fishing sustainably. Ben is an advisor and board member to startups in the seafood and blue innovation space, and author of Real Maine Food, the Luke’s Lobster cookbook. Ben will join the opening panel, 'Beyond Blue Horizons: Forging Transparent and Traceable Paths for the Future of Sustainable Food' on May 22 alongside leaders from Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, Wholechain and The Pew Charitable Trusts to discuss best practices aiding traceability in the blue value chain.  Meet Ben and 350+ dynamic blue food pioneers at the summit in London. Register before Monday April 22 to avail an exclusive 10% off your pass: https://bit.ly/4bVtk44