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“It all began modestly enough. An unmarried New York City perfume salesman named Alan Stillman decided that the coolest way to meet the stewardesses in his neighborhood would be to buy a broken down beer joint, jazz it up with Tiffany lamps and mod young waiters and christen it – with an eye toward attracting the career crowd – the T.G.I.F. (Thank Goodness It’s Friday). Within one week the police had to ring Friday’s (as it quickly became known) with barricades to handle the nightly hordes of young singles. Hundreds of blatantly imitative emporiums soon opened their doors in scores of major cities – and an industry was born.” In 1965, Alan Stillman founded the first Friday’s® restaurant in New York City. According to Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post, the opening of the first Friday’s restaurant heralded the dawn of the singles age. Friday’s restaurants have been the employer of several well-known celebrities - Kathy Mattea, Sean Patrick Flannery of “Young Indiana Jones? and Brad Garrett of "Everybody Loves Raymond". Friday’s restaurants have a long history of innovation, including being credited with: The Friday’s restaurant is synonymous with ‘flair bartending’. In the mid 1980s, the restaurant created the first World Bartender Championships to honor the famous, trend-setting, bottle-tossing style of Friday’s bartenders around the globe. This tradition continues today! From roller skating to singing to buttons and suspenders to showing off our ‘flair’, Friday’s team members are legendary for providing the best America has to offer in service and atmosphere. Friday’s red and white stripes are one of the most recognized restaurant trademarks in the world, next to the Golden Arches. In the past 43 years Friday’s restaurants have:
The Friday’s brand was the first casual dining restaurant chain to offer stone-ground whole wheat bread, avocados, bean sprouts and Mexican appetizers.
