DALLAS (AP) - Norman Brinker, who built a worldwide offhand dining empire that includes Chili’s Grill & Bar, On the Border and Maggiano’s Little Italy, died Tuesday at adulthood 78. Brinker died at a health centre in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Robin Rymer at the Swan-Law Funeral Home. She did not recall the cause of death.
Brinker retired as chairman of Dallas-based Brinker International in 2000 after construction the secure of more than 1,000 casual-dining restaurants. The entourage now has 1,700 restaurants in 27 countries, according to its Web site. Brinker got his quail with a coffee rat on in Dallas in the 1960s and later developed the concept for Steak & Ale restaurants, where he’s credited with popularizing the salad wine bar and uninterested dining. He sold Steak & Ale to Pillsbury Co in the original 1970s and went to produce for Pillsbury’s restaurant division. During his regulate at Pillsbury’s restaurant division, he created the Bennigan’s tie and became known for creating a "fern bar" restaurant trammel concept intended to pull singular people.
Brinker later purchased Chili’s, which had started as a lone restaurant in Dallas, and took the bond social in 1983 under the trade-mark Brinker International. Chili’s now has about 900 company-owned restaurants and more than 550 franchises. Among the chains Brinker International has bought and sold are Corner Bakery Cafe, EatZi’s Market and Bakery.
It now operates Romano’s Macaroni Grill in counting up to the other dignitary names. Brinker started out as a busboy in Southern California, moved to Dallas in the 1960s with his victory wife, tennis great Maureen Connolly Brinker, who died in 1969. In 1993, Brinker was critically injured when a horse level on him during a polo match.
He was in a coma for three weeks and was paralyzed on his communist unimportant for nearly three months but recovered and in due course walked again. Brinker was divorced from Nancy Brinker, a ci-devant U.S. delegate and Republican fundraiser, who persist month was named the World Health Organization’s "goodwill ambassador" to lift cancer awareness. She is the abort of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a heart cancer munificence named for her only sister who died of the ailment at 36.
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