Forbes profiles the awesomely named Tilman Fertitta, CEO of Landry's Restaurants, who owns a $2.5 billion restaurant empire that recently took over the Portland-based McCormick & Schmick's brand. Says Fertitta of the McCormick acquisition: "I had never done a hostile before. I wanted to see what it was like... It wasn't painful for me. Was painful for them." [Forbes]
