Brinker International

Brinker International is a hospitality industry company in the United States. They own two major restaurants: Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy restaurants. Their headquarters are in Dallas, Texas, and there are more than 1600 franchise restaurants operating under these two names located all over the world. As of the last count, which was in 2011, Brinker International had over 60,000 employees working for them. Brinker International's employment opportunities include account managers, talent selection managers, assistant property and licensing manager, director of operations, asset managers, finance analysts, and many more.

Harry Lavine started the company in 1975, with the first Chili's Grill and Bar in Dallas, Texas. In 1983, Norman Brinker took over the company and changed the name to Chili's Incorporated. He also took Chili's public in 1988. Brinker partnered with the Pac-Am Food Concepts organization to expand to the east and made several acquisitions that restructured the company considerably putting it in its current state. The company also had several other restaurants in addition to the two that are now under the Brinker name, including the Big Bowl Asian Kitchen, the Corner Bakery Cafe, the Flyers Island Express, Grady's American Grill, Rockfish Seafood Grill and the On the Border Mexican Grill and Cantina.

There are over 1600 restaurants either named Chili's Grill and Bar or Maggiano's Little Italy restaurants worldwide. As of the 2017 fiscal year, the company reported revenue of $3.14 billion and had revenue per share of $68.61.