[2] As of October 2022, 35 restaurants operate worldwide: twenty-two in the U.S., four in Mexico, three in Japan and one each in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Canada and Qatar.

It was named for the film's characters Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue and Forrest Gump.

In 1995, entrepreneur Anthony Zolezzi bought the rights to the name “Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.” from Paramount Pictures in an attempt to turn around a financially troubled seafood company, Meridian Products.

[10] The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. purchase also included a lone Rusty Pelican in Newport Beach, California.

[15] There have been many cases in the last few years in which the National Labor Relations Board found companies social media policies to be excessively broad, and ruled in favor of the employee(s).