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Chili's Introduces Touch Screens At Tabletops So You Can Avoid Human Contact
Maybe you're just not a people person, but you love to eat out at chain restaurants. Bing bang boom — Chili's has come up with a great way to avoid talking to a waitress while ordering and even paying for food with new touch screens installed at every table at some of its Minnesota locations. Three cheers for the socially awkward!
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Tequila-Spiked Smoothies Served To Trio Of Children At Chili's
Someone at a Chili's in Colorado made a big oopsy over the holiday weekend by serving up three fruit smoothies loaded with tequila to a trio of youngsters.
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Mother Claims 4-Year-Old Served Boozy Mudslide Instead Of Milkshake At Chili's
There might be something wrong when a 4-year-old child doesn't want to finish a chocolate milkshake. A mother in Chicago claims that her daughter didn't want to finish her shake at Chili's because it was actually the sweet, boozy chocolaty concoction known as a Mudslide. The child was diagnosed with alcohol ingestion overdose, but did she take in the booze at Chili's?
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Chili's Says Club Members' Personal Data Was Leaked
In a mass message sent out to its "e-mail club" subscribers, Chili's revealed its service provider sprung a leak in user data, letting loyalists know first and last names, email addresses and birthdates went up for grabs.
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Chili's Salads Come From Where?
David writes in with what may be the most questionable piece of Chili's advertising since Mike Myers — as Fat Bastard in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me — co-opted the "I Want My Baby Back" ribs jingle to express his fascination with eating infants.
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Man Goes Balls Out -- Literally -- Trying To Steal Soda Truck From Chili's Parking Lot
While some inept robbers think
wearing panties on your face will mask your identity, one man in Oklahoma seems to think that a complete lack of underwear — or really any clothing — is the key to a successful crime.
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Five Guys Named Best Fast Food Burger In U.S. By Zagat Guide
Earlier this year, the burgers at quickly growing fast foodatrorium Five Guys made the Center for Science in the Public Interest's
list of most calorie-filled meals in the country. Perhaps that's why the voters at the Zagat Guide recently chose Five Guys as the best burger in the country.
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Chili's Server Says Chain Is Getting Portable Payment Devices
It's always a tense moment when you hand off a credit card to your waiter. There are so many potential pitfalls: Your card could slip out of the folder, an unscrupulous employee may skim your data or inflate your tip, and you could forget your card at the table.
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Chili's Gives FourSquare Reason To Exist
FourSquare, that helpful location-based social networking service for those oblivious to the fact that nobody on Twitter or Facebook cares which hardware store they're frequenting, may have some redeeming value after all. That's because Chili's is now offering up free chips and salsa to those who check in at participating stores.
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Chili's Fires Employee Accused Of Placing Camera In Restroom
A former Chili's employee is set to answer charges that he stashed a cellphone camera aimed at the women's toilets in the Arroyo Grande restaurant. The camera was discovered after a 41-year-old patron noticed something suspicious concealed in a bucket of cleaning supplies.
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