Brinker International Sets FY2029 Growth Targets at Investor Day, Reaffirms Global Franchise Footprint

Brinker International, the Dallas-based parent of Chili's Grill & Bar and Maggiano's Little Italy, held an investor day at its headquarters on September 17, 2026, walking analysts and investors through its growth strategy and long-term financial targets. Executives set out goals of 4% to 6% annual revenue growth and 2% to 3% unit growth through fiscal 2029, with the presentation streamed publicly and archived for replay through mid-October.

The company said its growth plan rests on remodeling its existing estate, opening more new Chili's locations, and continuing to invest in food value and guest hospitality. Brinker now owns, operates or franchises more than 1,600 restaurants across 29 countries and two U.S. territories, a footprint that gives the investor-day targets a genuinely international dimension rather than a purely domestic one.

For prospective international partners, a full-service casual-dining group the size of Brinker publishing explicit multi-year unit-growth and revenue targets at a public investor event is a useful reference point: it shows what a franchisor with real scale is willing to commit to in writing, and at what pace, when it is trying to win investor confidence rather than simply pitch a territory map to a single prospective partner.

Southeast Asian operators evaluating a master franchise relationship with a global casual-dining brand — or building their own multi-country growth targets to present to investors and partners — can treat Brinker's investor-day framing as a benchmark for how specific a serious growth commitment looks in public, from unit-growth percentages down to a stated timeline for delivering them.