While remaining independent and privately held, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants has grown to 50 restaurant locations across the country from Beverly Hills to New York City, and 20 different concepts in 15 states and the District of Columbia, including the steakhouse and seafood restaurant, Ocean Prime.

[1] The group's Ocean Prime concept opened in Troy, Michigan in June 2008 and has locations in Columbus (under the name Mitchell's Ocean Club) and in seventeen other cities across the United States.

[3] The group formerly owned the Mitchell's Steakhouse and Mitchell's Fish Market brands, but sold both of these concepts along with one Cameron's Steakhouse location to Ruth's Chris in February 2008.

He gained notoriety in the restaurant industry in 2008, when two of the company's concepts: Mitchell's/Columbus Fish Market and Mitchell's/Cameron's Steakhouse—a total of 22 units—sold to Ruth's Hospitality Group for $92 million.

[30] Mitchell is a 1986 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where he was the first alumnus to hold the position of Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees.