Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants Joins the Bilt Neighborhood to Connect Its Restaurants with Local Communities and Drive New Guest Experiences

Leading restaurant group to deploy Bilt Neighborhood OS, connecting its restaurants to nearby residential communities, offices, hotels, and sports teams to attract new guests, unlock neighborhood spending power, and create personalized dining experiences

CHICAGO, IL — Nov. 10, 2026 — Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, one of the nation’s leading restaurant groups with more than 110 restaurants across 60 concepts, today announced the start of a partnership with Bilt, beginning with RPM Italian in Chicago.

For more than 55 years, Lettuce has built its business around creating exceptional dining experiences and meaningful connections with its guests and the communities it serves. Through its work with Bilt, Lettuce is exploring new ways to connect its restaurants with local residents, office workers, hotel guests and sports fans, while creating more personalized hospitality experiences.

The partnership will kick-off at RPM Italian in Chicago, with the potential to expand to additional Lettuce restaurants over time.

Through Bilt Neighborhood OS™, the goal for participating Lettuce restaurants is to be able to:

• Reach new guests through neighborhood channels: Connect with Bilt’s growing network of apartment communities, merchant partners, hotels, fitness studios, sports venues and more.

• Tap into neighborhood spending power: Explore opportunities for guests to use Bilt-funded credits and rewards at participating Lettuce restaurants, helping drive incremental visits and spending.

• Create experiences at meaningful moments: Find new ways to welcome residents, engage local fans, connect with nearby office workers and introduce hotel guests to Lettuce restaurants.

The relationship also creates an opportunity to explore how Bilt Neighborhood OS could work alongside Lettuce’s existing Frequent Diner Club loyalty program and LettuceEats app. Over time, this could create new ways to introduce guests to Lettuce’s loyalty program and make recognition and rewards feel even more seamless.

Bilt’s technology is also designed to work across existing restaurant systems, creating opportunities for more connected guest recognition, personalized offers and loyalty experiences. The goal is to explore how technology can make hospitality more personal without adding unnecessary complexity for restaurant teams.

“Our restaurants have always been about bringing people together and being part of the communities we serve,” said R.J. Melman, President and CEO of Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants. “We think Bilt is doing some very innovative things around neighborhoods, loyalty and hospitality, and we’re excited to explore what that could mean for our restaurants and our guests. It’s a natural extension of how we’ve always thought about hospitality.”

“The best neighborhoods are built around great local businesses, and restaurants are at the center of that,” said Ankur Jain, Founder and CEO of Bilt. “Lettuce Entertain You has spent decades creating some of the country’s most loved dining experiences. We’re excited to work together and explore new ways to connect those restaurants with the people who live, work and spend time in the neighborhoods around them.”

Together, Lettuce and Bilt are exploring how technology, loyalty and neighborhood connections can create more value for guests while supporting long-term restaurant growth.

About Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants

Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants is a family-owned restaurant group founded in Chicago in 1971. With more than 110 restaurants across more than 60 brands, Lettuce is known for creating distinctive dining experiences, ranging from casual neighborhood favorites to acclaimed fine dining destinations. Its portfolio includes RPM Italian, RPM Steak, RPM Seafood, Aba, Beatrix, Sushi-san, Wildfire, and many more. For more information, visit www.lettuce.com.

About Bilt

Launched in 2021, Bilt is the membership for where you live and the Neighborhood Operating System powering everything around it. More than 8 million members use Bilt to earn rewards on housing payments, build a path to homeownership and redeem rewards across travel, dining, fitness, sports and more. With Neighborhood OS, an AI platform that helps businesses run their operations and grow through the neighborhood, Bilt connects housing providers, hospitality businesses, sports organizations and more than 50,000 merchant partners with customers through the places they live, work, stay and gather. For more information, visit www.bilt.com.