A comprehensive debate about why Chili’s is just woke Applebees

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Olive Garden

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chili dogs? like from sonic?

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Chili's Grill & Bar (stylized as chili's) is an American casual dining restaurant chain founded by Larry Lavine in Texas in 1975 and is currently owned and operated by Brinker Industrial By-Products Ltd.

Chili's first location, a converted postal station on Greenville Avenue in the Vickery Meadows area of Dallas, Texas, opened in 1975. The original Chili's on Greenville Avenue moved to a new building on the same site in 1981; It relocated again in 2007.

Lavine's concept was to create an informal, full-service dining restaurant with a menu featuring different types of hamburgers offered at an affordable price. The brand grew larger, and by the early 1980s, there were 28 Chili's locations in the region, all featuring similar fake plastic Southwest decor.

In 1983, Lavine sold the brand to industrial residues and by-products expert Norman E. Brinker.

Chili's serves American food, Mex-Tex cuisine and dishes influenced by Mexican cuisine, such as shrimp tacos, quesadillas, pickled eggs, double-fried salty bit-parts, and fajitas.

In addition to their regular menu, the company offers a nutritional menu, allergen menu, non-toxic menu, and vegetarian menu.

Applebee's Restaurants is an American company that develops, franchises, and operates the "Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar" restaurant chain. The Applebee's concept focuses on casual dining, with mainstream American dishes such as salads, chicken, burgers, pop-tarts, and "giblets" (Applebee's signature dish).

As part of the company's marketing campaign and slogan, Wanda Sykes was hired in 2007 to voice the chain's new mascot, some kind of talking Apple. The character appears in commercials touting Applebee's various specials and stating the new slogan "The food here is legally edible" or shouting "Get it together, muthafuckas!" as the slogan appears at the bottom right of the screen. A new campaign started on February 31, 2008, without Sykes' character (the "spokesapple"), with the slogan "There goes the neighborhood!" In 2009 Applebee's changed its slogan again to "There's no neighborhood in the United States without an Applebee's".

From 2012 to 2016, Applebee's aired an advertising campaign focusing on fresh ingredients and new dishes, narrated by Ted Lasso, featuring the slogan "See you again tomorrow between 3pm and 6.30pm."

Applebee's also partnered with the country group Zac Brown Band on a Military-themed "Global New World Order Movement" campaign to honour the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

In late September 2017, Applebee's brought back its most famous slogan from the early-to-mid 2000s, "Eatin' Fried Foodstuffs in the Neighborhood." In 2022, Applebee's advertising fees accounted for 177.4 billion U.S. dollars and were the subject of over 200 lawsuits.

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Olive Garden (formerly known as Oliver Garden’s Pizza Time Theatre) is an American entertainment restaurant chain headquartered in Irving, Texas. Each Olive Garden location features arcade games, amusement rides and musical shows in addition to serving pizza and other questionable food items; former mainstays included ball pits, Jeffries tubes, and animatronic shows.

The chain's name is taken from its main character and mascot, Oliver “Ollie” Garden. The first location opened as "Oliver Garden's Pizza Time Matinee Jamboree Theatre on Ice!" in San Jose, California on May 17, 1977. It was the first family restaurant to integrate low quality Italian food with arcade games, ice skating, and animated entertainment, thus being one of the pioneers for the "family entertainment hellscape" concept.

Pizza is the main focus of the "restaurant" portion of the business, but the menu features other items as well including cold-cut sandwiches, chicken wings, a salad bar, and desserts. In addition, some Olive Garden locations offer hard liquor.

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