logo used since september 2011 . type wholly owned subsidiary industry restaurant genre casual dining founded march 13 1975 ; 41 years ago 1975 03 13 founder larry lavine headquarters 6820 lbj freeway dallas texas u.s. 75240 number of locations 1 580 2015 area served worldwide key people kelli valade coo products tex mex american cuisine parent brinker international website www.chilis.com en pages home.aspx footnotes references 1 2 chili s grill & bar is an american casual dining restaurant chain that features tex mex style cuisine . the company was founded by larry lavine in texas in 1975 and is currently owned and operated by brinker international . contents 1 history 2 menu 3 advertising 4 international locations 5 legal problems 6 references 7 external links history edit chili s first location a converted postal station on greenville ave. in the vickery meadows area of dallas texas opened in 1975 . the original chili s on greenville ave. moved to a new building on the same site in 1981 before relocating again in 2007 . 3 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 proved successful and by the early 1980s there were 28 chili s locations in the region all featuring similar southwest decor . 4 in 1983 lavine sold the company to restaurant executive norman e. brinker formerly of the pillsbury restaurant group that owned bennigan s. 4 a few chili s locations chili s in santa clara california chili s in dallas chili s at palisades center shopping mall west nyack new york . chili s in santiago dominican republic next to h agen dazs . chili s in makati city philippines menu edit in addition to their regular menu the company offers a nutritional menu allergen menu and vegetarian menu . they also offer a veggie burger non vegan that is supplied by the kellogg company . 5 advertising edit chili s welcome to chili s is an advertising jingle used in chili s restaurant commercials to advertise the restaurant s line of baby back ribs . the ad features a doo wop quartet singing a cappella . the song was written by guy bommarito and produced by tom faulkner productions for gsd & m advertising of austin texas . faulkner sings both i want my baby back baby back baby back ... as well as the melodic theme . the deep bar b q sauce was sung by famed new york bass vocalist willie mccoy . advertising age magazine named the song first on its list of 10 songs most likely to get stuck in your head in 2004 . 6 in 2008 the chain aired parody ads for p. j. bland s a fictional restaurant chain with cardboard foods . 7 in 2013 chili s used wendy rene s stax single bar b q in their tv commercial . international locations edit chili s serves american food influenced by tex mex cuisine such as spicy shrimp tacos bacon burgers and steak . asia europe middle east north america caribbean central south america africa india germany bahrain canada brazil indonesia russia jordan dominican republic costa rica morocco japan kuwait mexico colombia tunisia malaysia lebanon puerto rico ecuador philippines oman united states el salvador singapore qatar guatemala south korea saudi arabia honduras taiwan peru united arab emirates venezuela countries where chili s is found as of 2015 they have 1 580 locations worldwide including 839 that are company owned and 741 that are franchised . 8 legal problems edit in october 2008 a chili s australia franchise was prosecuted and fined au 300 000 by the nsw office of industrial relations for underpaying staff pressuring employees to sign an australian workplace agreement and failing to pay au 45 000 in owed wages by a deadline set by the office of industrial relations . in the same year chili s announced that it would be closing all of its australian branches . 9 references edit brinker international inc. june 29 2011 . fy 2011 10 k . u.s. securities and exchange commission . retrieved april 17 2012 . brinker international inc. june 29 2011 . 2011 annual report to shareholders . u.s. securities and exchange commission . retrieved april 17 2012 . brinker publication october 2007 . brinker 2007 corporate report . brinker international inc. retrieved 2007 12 19 . a b brinker international . answers.com . retrieved 2007 12 19 . chili s restaurant menu . brinker international . 2012 . retrieved april 19 2012 . 10 songs most likely to get stuck in your head . the book of tens . advertising age . december 2004 . retrieved 2008 06 24 . dead link chili s spoofs restaurant ads with p.j. bland s campaign . burger business . 2009 04 15 . retrieved 2009 04 28 . http www.brinker.com company brinker2015 annualreport2015.pdf fast food chain off the boil . . illawarra mercury . 2008 . retrieved 2009 10 26 . external links edit dallas fort worth portal companies portal food portal wikimedia commons has media related to chili s. official website v t e brinker international inc. holdings chili s grill 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