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The first Outback Steakhouse location was opened on March 15, 1988, in Tampa, Florida. Canadian Outback Steakhouse restaurants began in 1996. In March 2009, Outback Steakhouse Canada abruptly closed all nine locations in the province of Ontario, citing poor economic conditions, but in June 2009, Outback Steakhouse opened a location in Niagara Falls, Ontario, with a second location later ...
In 1988 the first Outback Steakhouse was opened in Tampa, Florida. The company went public in 1991 as a 49-restaurant chain and changed its name to Outback Steakhouse, Inc. The Carrabba's Italian Grill was launched in 1993. The company's international expansion began with the first Outback Steakhouse to open in Canada.
In January 1993, under a joint venture with Outback Steakhouse, Inc. (the predecessor to Bloomin' Brands), 10 new Carrabba's locations were opened in Houston and Florida. Two years later, OSI acquired the rights to develop the Carrabba's chain nationwide. [1]
Outback is the largest steakhouse chain in America by location count (688 company-owned and franchised restaurants, as of Dec. 31, 2023) and the second-largest by sales—trailing only its ...
Outback Steakhouse's parent company Bloomin' Brands released its earnings results for the first quarter of 2024 on May 7, reporting a 4.2% drop in customer traffic at the chain's American ...
However, Outback said it plans to open as many as 18 new restaurants in the US this year, reflecting a redesigned restaurant layout that it unveiled in 2022. It has about 700 locations in the US ...
Despite the name's familiarity and frequent use as a generic term, "Bloomin' Onion" is a registered trademark and Outback's owners have issued legal threats to numerous restaurants over their use of similar names. [5] From June 21, 2016, Outback Steakhouse began serving a limited-time-only variant of the Bloomin' Onion, the Loaded Bloomin' Onion.
Two Outback Steakhouse locations in Ohio are among 41 across the country that Bloomin' Brands, the restaurant's corporate parent, is closing as it weighs underperforming units, ...