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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.
From February 1991 to March 2005, Sullivan was CEO of OSI Restaurant Partners, Inc. (now called OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC). From August 1987 to February 1991, he was president of the company. In an interview with Inc.com , Sullivan stated his biggest mistake in his career was the way he handled the rollout of Carrabba's Italian Grill .
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 ...
The steakhouse chain's new menu—which it calls the 8th wonder of the world– features a special take on the Bloomin' Onion.
Sales in the fourth quarter at Outback struggled, sliding 0.3%, as well as at Bonefish, which fell 3%. Carrabba’s was actually a bright spot, with same-store sales up 2.5%.
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, according to Nation ...