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Article: Tampa Tribune, Fla., What We Hear Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 29, 2001
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Tampa Tribune, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 29--OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE INC. has an informal rule that the company's annual meetings can't end until the audience asks five questions.
Although Outback's meeting earlier this week drew a couple of hundred people to the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, folks were having a hard time fulfilling the five-question rule.
Finally, a shareholder stood up and asked Outback co-founder and chief executive officer Chris Sullivan what was the company's involvement in golf.
Seems like an odd question, but Sullivan is an investor in Old Memorial Golf Club in northwest Tampa. But Outback ...