- Crediting with inventing the restaurant salad bar.
- Died about a week after aspirating food while celebrating his birthday.
- Elected to the Polo Hall of Fame in 1998.
- Was an alternate with the United States Olympic equestrian team at the 1952 Summer Games.
- Mutli-millionaire restaurateur whose Dallas-based Brinker International owns the Chili's, Bennigan's, On the Border, Maggiano's, Romano's Macaroni Grill, and Steak & Ale chains.
- Father of Brenda Brinker Bottum and Cindy Brinker.
- His third wife, Nancy Goodman, is the founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, named after her sister, who died from breast cancer in 1980.
- Growing up poor in Roswell, New Mexico he bred rabbits to supplement his family's income.
- Graduated with a business degree from San Diego State College.
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