Talk:T.G.I. Friday's

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1 "Flair"
2 Greengrocer's apostrophe?
3 No connection to "Waiting"...
4 Ballpark versions

[edit] "Flair"

In the TGI Friday's in Staten Island (New York), the staff doesn't wear anything I'd call "flair". Just a uniform shirt and pants. I only know about the one here, though.-Liz Mar. 4 2006

Would anyone care to research the previous requirement of wait staff to wear "flair" on their uniforms? A former TGI Friday's waitress told me the management used to make a big deal about it (similar to the Chochkies scenes in the movie Office Space), but people kept quitting and they had trouble keeping enough staff. "Flair" (along with the walls of antiques) was one of the things that made TGI Friday's unique, but the wait staff got tired of management's obsession with it, so they eventually dropped the policy once they had made their splash in the public cognizance. If we can find evidence for this other than my one anecdote here, I think it would be something worth mentioning in the article. --Birdhombre 19:45, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

From my visit to TGI Friday's recently I've noticed that the staff is no longer wearing flair. Not sure if this is universal or just localized. -Ichabod 08:50, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to the Aberdeen (Scotland) one later today, I'll let you know. But from memory of the last few years, the staff still wear "flair" over here in the British restaurants. Satan's Rubber Duck 12:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Yes, there is still flair, but not so much. Perhaps it was cause it was just the lunchtime staff, there was hardly anyone (staff or customers) there at all. Satan's Rubber Duck 18:43, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Sometime in the last couple of years the chain has dialed way back on the duisplay clutter in the restaurants. I suspect a policy change re "flair" may have occurred about the same time. Personally, I kind of preferred the display clutter over the new decor, but I can certainly understand eliminating the "flair" policy. 24.178.126.182 18:34, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, the Atkins menu has gone by the way. Other chains, such as Ruby Tuesday have also done away with the Atkins-pandering. 24.178.126.182 18:36, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greengrocer's apostrophe?

Does TGI Friday's belong to a TGI Friday or is it a case of an illiterate use of an apostrophe being used to create a plural?

I believe it's the second. There's no real reason for that apostraphe to be there, but it is consistant throughout the chain. Satan's Rubber Duck 12:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I always thought the apostrophe was used to suggest informality by way of the possessive case, rather like "Al's place of eatin" or something like that (if that makes any sense the way I wrote it). Kemet 11 March 2006.

I take it as an implied possessive, as commonly used in names of eating places, like "Joe's" or "Mom's", i.e., "Friday's Restaurant". --Michael K. Smith 22:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No connection to "Waiting"...

TGI Friday's was not the inspiration for the 2005 movie "Waiting". That movie was in fact based around rival chain "Bennigan's". This is clearly evident not only in the naming of the fictional restaurant in the movie (Shenanigan's), but also the fact that the movie was filmed in a vacated Bennigan's Tavern location. -Ian 09/27/2006