{"id":9459,"date":"2017-05-11T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:15:10","slug":"csg-snapshot-bloomin-brands-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/05\/csg-snapshot-bloomin-brands-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"CSG Snapshot: Bloomin\u2019 Brands Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-176-restaurant-franchisee-premier-database.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/glance_bloomin_2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>2202 N. West Shore Blvd.<br \/>\nTampa, FL 33607<br \/>\n(813) 282-1225<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloominbrands.com\" target=\"_blank\">bloominbrands.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores<\/strong><br \/>\n1,486<\/p>\n<p><strong>Systemwide Sales<\/strong><br \/>\n$4.3 billion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded<\/strong><br \/>\n1988<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trading Areas<\/strong><br \/>\nAK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, GU, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VI, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY, AB, ON, FC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives<\/strong><br \/>\nChairman + CEO: Liz Smith<br \/>\nChief Brand Officer: Chris Brandt<br \/>\nChief Development + Franchising Officer: Suk Singh<br \/>\nPresident (Outback): Patrick Murtha<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #3a64ae;\">SNAP<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">FORWARD<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Looking for a way back in from the cold, <strong>Bloomin\u2019 Brands Inc.<\/strong> has joined the recent trend in refranchising a number of stores, albeit in a Bloomin\u2019 Brands sort of way. Turning over 54 restaurants to long-term partners with 20+ years each in the <strong>Outback <\/strong>business, as it did last month, is a far cry from trying to unload of the balance of company-operated stores as we\u2019ve seen with some chains recently. However, for a company that has historically held operations close to the vest (still operating 1,074 of 1,242 US units after the deal), it\u2019s a sign that a real need for real change to right the ship may be resonating in the C-suite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/170511_rest_cs.jpg\" alt=\"Bloomin Brands\" width=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"nra_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/t-nra2017.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/t-nra2017.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/nra2017sig2.png\" alt=\"\" name=\"Cont_0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2202 N. West Shore Blvd. Tampa, FL 33607 (813) 282-1225 bloominbrands.com Total Stores 1,486 Systemwide Sales $4.3 billion Year Founded 1988 Trading Areas AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, GU, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/05\/csg-snapshot-bloomin-brands-inc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSG Snapshot: Bloomin\u2019 Brands Inc.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurant-foodservice","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}