Outback sells to investor group for $3.2-billion (Repug org owners buy it back

[wakeme2008]

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2006/11/outback_sells_t.html

November 06, 2006
Outback sells to investor group for $3.2-billion

OSI Restaurant Partners Inc., owner of several popular chains including Outback Steakhouse, has agreed to be acquired by an investor group for $40 a share or an estimated $3.2-billion.

The Tampa company’s buyout team includes its founders, Chris T. Sullivan, Robert D. Basham and J. Timothy Gannon, as well as private equity firms Bain Capital Partners LLC and Catterton Partners

..little more at link...

Sullivan and friends have been big Jebbie and every rightwing cause supporters in Florida. :grr:

[fasttense]

1. Well, I will never eat there again. n/t

[Skink]

2. So they bought it back.

They pay lousy however.

[buff2]

3. I'm glad I've never eaten there.........

:puke:

[starchimes]

4. Only place I ever got food poisoning from.

[kurth]

5. Don't eat at Ruth's Chris either

Overpriced, and full of Hannity/Limbaugh crowd at every location I've eaten.

[truthisfreedom]

9. plus their vegetable presentation and preparation is atrocious.

huge chunks of completely over-cooked broccoli? sorry, that's just idiotic.

[depakid]

6. Outback has a long history of anti-worker activity

Some years ago, they were forcing employees to contribute to anti-worker causes as a tacit condition of advancement.

[populistdriven]

7. Outbacks Newest Appetizer: the bloomin idiot

[kurth]

12. Their Bloomin' Onion: 1,700 calories and 116 grams of fat

REAL healthy food...

[judaspriestess]

8. I don't like Outback anyway

they can take outback and shove it up their collective asses for all I care

[truthisfreedom]

10. i've eaten there once... the marinade overpowers the flavor of the meat

so badly that there's nothing enjoyable about their steaks.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. I ate there once. I won't tell you what happened a few hours later

because of the "no bodily function threads" rule. :hurts:

And yes, it tasted wrong. Should've followed my instincts at the first bite, but noooooo. Never again.

[SoCalDem]

11. No biggie.. Their food's too expensive for what it is

and waaaay too salty for our tastes :)