TGI Fridays

50 great ideas: 2016 edition

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 14, 2016

What takes a notion from “that’s cool” to a smart, business-forward point of differentiation? We present 50 of the greatest on-trend ideas we’ve collected.

Top 100 Independents

Smith & Wollensky

Oct. 06, 2014

Founder Alan Stillman also created the first TGI Fridays.*RB estimate...

Operations

Franchisors are offering negotiable terms to attract operators

By David Farkas on Feb. 07, 2017

Here’s a look at five areas where franchisees with leverage are finding wiggle room in franchisor contracts.

TGI Fridays opts to give servers, not guests, a tablet

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 13, 2015

TGI Fridays is taking a different tack than competitors like Chili’s and Applebee’s in its embrace of order-placement tablets.

Financing

Chains break new ground in pursuit of sales

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 13, 2017

Wedding registries and third-party reservations services were once seen as too highfalutin for cookie-cutter places slinging pizza and potato skins. But not in today’s environment.

Workforce