Tony Roma's: Playboy, Pivoting to Ribs, and "Winning Best Ribs in America"

🍖🔥 Tony Roma's: The Rib Pivot That Took Over the World (and Then Left America?) 🔥🍖

This week, Gabe Legg (@gabe_legg) joins me to unpack the history of Tony Roma's, a restaurant that stumbled into ribs, built an empire on them, and somehow ended up bigger overseas than in the US. From Playboy beginnings to NFL ownership to a string of financial shakeups, Tony Roma's might be one of the strangest success (if you can call it that?) stories in chain restaurant history.

🍖 A Random Rib Special That Completely Rewrote the Menu
🍸 Tony Roma & Hugh Hefner
🏈 A Dallas Cowboys Owner Added Tony Roma's to His Portfolio
📉 Bought, Sold, Flipped, Bankrupted...Repeat?
📺 "Show Us Your Rib Face" Is a Messy But Clever Campaign
🧅 The Onion Loaf: The Bloomin' Onion's Spiritual Cousin
🔥 The Heat Lamp Debuts: Gabe Fires Off His Controversial Restaurant Hot Take
🤢 Yelp from Strangers: Violent Illness Still Nets FOUR STARS??

💬 COMMENT BELOW: How do you like your ribs?

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👉 NEXT WEEK: We put Tony Roma's to the Chili's Test and see if the ribs hold up.