10 Facts About TGI Fridays

TGI Fridays is an American restaurant chain focusing on primarily American cuisine and casual dining.

TGI Fridays operates over 869 locations in 55 countries, including 298 in the United States.

TGI Fridays lived on 63rd Street between First and York, in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge on the corner of East 63rd and 1st Avenue, and hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women.

TGI Fridays became so popular that it had to install ropes to create an area for those waiting in line, unusual at the time for a restaurant.

Franchising of TGI Fridays began two years after the Manhattan location opened, in Memphis, Tennessee's Overton Square district; that location has since closed.

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Scoggin is credited with the then-new 200 seat prototype as well as many of the TGI Fridays innovations including a large from scratch menu, potato skins, bartender Olympics, and frozen drinks.

Brand extension, which features the TGI Fridays concept combined with the atmosphere of a sports bar, called "Fridays Front Row Sports Grill", is found at two Major League Baseball stadiums which each overlook the playing field: Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona and Miller Park in Milwaukee.

TGI Fridays is a franchising operation, with franchisees owning most of the outlets.

Newer TGI Fridays franchises are more contemporary, with wallpaper, granite exteriors, and red-and-white striped lamps instead of Tiffany.

TGI Fridays has a large menu with an emphasis on alcoholic beverages.