Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Tex., is a global restaurant company.

Carlson Restaurants is divided into three divisions – T.G.I. Friday’s U.S.A. (T.G.I. Friday’s, Friday’s Front Row Sports Grill and Friday’s American BarÒ); T.G.I. Friday’s International (T.G.I. Friday’s®, Friday’s American Bar® and Front Row® Sports Grill); and Pick Up Stix, a leader in the fast-casual segment. As of December 30, 2003 Carlson Restaurants, which is included in the Carlson Hospitality Worldwide division of Carlson Companies, Inc., operates, franchises and licenses 825 restaurants in 55 countries.

The company’s roots date back 38 years to the opening of the first T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant in New York on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Since then, Carlson Restaurants Worldwide has reached more than $2 billion in systemwide sales.