Landry’s will launch Morton’s Grille, a casual and less-pricey offshoot of its upscale Morton’s the Steakhouse, in a community north of Houston next week. Casual spinoffs from high-end steakhouses are catching on with other brands — Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group opened the first Del Frisco’s Grille in New York City in 2011, and the chain has since grown to six units. Read the Nation’s Restaurant News story here.

