TGI Friday CEO explains how the company to make a comeback after filing for bankruptcy in 2024.
BOTH Offer restaurant chains The throwing shade of each other on social media where one has the best mozzarella sticks, even if the blows are thrown under the belt if there is one more business.
Chili’s grill & bar shares a tweet from TGI Friday on Thursday and took some digs in the process.
“A man says to stay on their way,” TGI Friday Posted by X. “Y’all not mozzarella stick to people. We’re. That’s Tweet.
Along with TGI postage Friday, Chili’s commented, “@ US next, as well, we real don’t know you’re still open.” Greetings! “
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Chili’s many followers also surprised TGIs Friday open, a writing, “Burnnn! It’s calling a trip to Chili’s!”
Another follower wrote, “OMG, I think I only witnessed a murder.” Another follower wrote, “I can’t remember the last time I saw a TGI last Friday outside the frozen section.”
The replied of the answer later, writing, “ooooop.”
But many followers put on the subject in hand: Which restaurant chain is better?
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A customer walking toward a grill & bar restaurant at Chili in San Antonio. (Callaghan O’Hare / Bloomberg by Getty Images / Getty Images)
“They never had triple dipper, and for that, they were jealous of you forever,” a follower wrote to chilis, which, in turn, they could not meet triple dipper eagerness. “
Another follower wrote, “may need to get peppers at night just because of this tweet. Insasted them.”
“We brought the Heat!” Chili wrote back “Hope we see you tonight.”
In a self-posting post, TGI Friday failed to call Chili in x but shared post at restaurant, “is the cheese shall challenge accepted or arranged
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One of the followers of TGI Friday responded by writing, “@chilis” with a set of eyeballs, and TGI Friday replied, “We also wait.”
Chili’s and TGI Friday do not respond to business request ‘request for commentary on social media war starting Thursday.
Before spat, TGI Friday wrote X that the new menu didn’t, adds that the “Mozz sticks hit the better.
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TGI Friday is targeted for a comeback after several restaurants closed after filing the losses. (Jim Walsh / Courier Post / USA Today Network by imaginary / imaginal images)
The chain is trying for a comeback after a challenging year to see more closes and filing bankrupt.
The company involves many restaurants that filed for the protection of bankruptcy in court Of 2024 after failing to handle heavy debt accumulated during Covid-19 pandemic.
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| eat | Brinker International Inc. | 148.64 | -2.33 | -1.54% |
The footsteps of the US in the US has significantly reduced to 85 active sites, no third of the number moving in the US at the beginning of 2024.
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TGI Friday closed over two dosened locations, and, in structure, the company sells 27 of the 39 corporate owned by a franchisee led by franchisee. In January 2025, the former CEO Ray Blanchette, builder of TGIF management in Sugarloaf, returned to change the company.
More than Menu change, TGI last Friday also moves how to present himself. The company “changed the brand’s voice and run it,” which focuses on many consumers by social media Instead of traditional TV ad campaigns, according to Blanchette.
The Fox Business’ Daniella Genovese and Aislinn Murphy contributed to this report.
