In 1988, Outback Steakhouse® was founded in Tampa, Florida by four friends who were all veterans of the hospitality industry and had the dream of opening their own restaurant. They wanted a place with a casual atmosphere and a strong focus on quality food and service.

Outback Steakhouse is one of the many casual steakhouse chains that has risen to popularity in America. It's best known for, of course, a menu filled with grilled steaks and the iconic Bloomin' Onion.

Chris Sullivan, Robert Basham, Tim Gannon, and Trudy Cooper, all sterling veterans of the hospitality industry. To ensure their haven would stand out from the pack, they chose an Australian theme to fit the relaxed but lively mood of their ideal restaurant.

William Snow (born 15 June 1960) is an Australian actor born in Sydney.

It was founded in March 1988 with its first location in Tampa by Bob Basham, Chris T. Sullivan, Trudy Cooper, and Tim Gannon. It was owned and operated in the United States by OSI Restaurant Partners until it was acquired by Bloomin' Brands, and by other franchise and venture agreements internationally.

The term “Outback,” or “the bush,” defines any part of Australia removed from the more-settled edges of the continent. In other words, it is “out back” from the larger cities that reside on Australia's coasts. The Outback is typified as arid or semiarid, open land, often undeveloped.

With a rich crop of Aussie wildlife, the Northern Territory offers plenty off road, outback experience, which you can easily explore for yourself with a 4WD drive vehicle. Spot enormous crocs, uncover Aboriginal rock art or be awed by the sunrise over Uluru.

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land, and pay respect to their Elders, past and present.

• Uluru is taller than the Eiffel Tower.
• There are only 0.16 people per square kilometre in the Northern Territory.
• There are over 150 different Indigenous languages spoken across Central Australia.

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Pete Gustin is the most widely heard voice on the planet. Pete Gustin is also legally blind having lost the majority of his eyesight due to a genetic disorder called Stargadt's Disease.

Temperatures in the central deserts can reach 50 degrees in the summer, but plunge to as low as minus 10, with regular frosts in winter. 8) The Outback has the only known fossilised dinosaur stampede in the world! Thousands of footprints are preserved in mudstone near Lark Quarry Conservation Park.

The Australian Outback is both harsh and breathtakingly beautiful. It is a unique and ancient landscape unlike anything anywhere else in the world. The flora and fauna have evolved over millions of years of isolation to be uniquely adopted to the harsh and arid conditions found here.