Talk:Brinker International

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1. Is Brinker International a larger employer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area than American Airlines? Southwest Airlines? Safeway (Tom Thumb?) That doesn't seem likely. Can someone check the Dallas newspapers' rankings of businesses? Or, perhaps, the Fortune rankings? Best I can find, AMR (American Airlines) has 88,000 employees worldwide, and Brinker has 102,000 worldwide -- but I'd wager that AMR's 24,000 or so in the Dallas area are more than Brinker's. I don't think Brinker has 25% of its employees concentrated in Dallas -- the management of the company is much leaner than that. [Later addition] The Wikipedia entry on the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex lists Brinker at #10 in large empoyers, with 10,000 employees in the area; AMR is first with 22,000, followed by Wal-Mart, Texas Health Resources, Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics, Baylor Health Care, AT&T, Verizon Communications, Texas Instruments, and Albertson's.  Albertson's recently pulled out of Texas (again), so Brinker may be #9 (go see:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas/Fort_Worth_Metroplex)

2. The company's rather frequent purchases and spin-offs should be chronicled, I think -- there are few other sites that keep track. But care needs to be taken to keep things accurate. Did Brinker actually own Taco Cabana?

3. Norman Brinker's genius in creating Steak & Ale and Bennigan's deserves chronicling fully, if not in this entry, then in a separate one. His comeback after a catastrophic accident while playing polo is important to the history of the company, I think.

Edarrell 22:16, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Update: Brinker is #55 in employment in the DFW area, with, 3,300 employees. Wal-mart is #1, American Airlines is #2. Here is the 2007 chart from the Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/2007/scorecard_tables.cgi

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