TGI FRIDAYS Dream Mall Restaurant — Restaurant in Kaohsiung

TGI Fridays Franchisor, LLC, doing business as TGI Fridays, is an American restaurant chain focusing on primarily American cuisine and casual dining. The restaurant's founder said the name stood for "Thank God It's Friday", although as of 2010 some television commercials for the chain have also made use of the phrase, "Thank Goodness It's Friday". TGI Fridays operates over 600 locations in 55 countries, including 233 in the United States.

In 1965, Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in Manhattan. in New York. He lived on 63rd Street between First and York Avenues, in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge. He hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. Stillman's choices for socializing were non-public cocktail parties or guys' beer-drinking hangout bars that women usually would not visit; he recalled that "there was no public place for people between, say, twenty-three to thirty-seven years old, to meet." He sought to recreate the comfortable cocktail party atmosphere in public despite having no experience in the restaurant business. With $5,000 of his own money and $5,000 borrowed from his mother, Stillman purchased a bar he often visited, The Good Tavern at the corner of 63rd Street and First Avenue, and renamed it TGI Fridays after the expression "Thank God it's Friday!" from his years at Bucknell University. The new restaurant, which opened on March 15, 1965, served standard American cuisine, bar food, and alcoholic beverages, but emphasized food quality and preparation. The exterior featured a red-and-white striped awning and blue paint; the Gay Nineties interior included American-made Tiffany-style lamps, mostly by the Somers family, wooden floors, Bentwood chairs, and striped tablecloths; and the bar area added brass rails and stained glass. The employees were young men: handsome jocks in form-fitting red-and-white striped soccer shirts, and every time someone had a birthday, the entire restaurant crew came around with a cake and sang TGI Fridays' traditional birthday song. Footage of interviews with patrons from this TGI Fridays was featured in Robert Downey Sr.'s film No More Excuses (1968). The first location closed in 1994 and became a British pub called "Baker Street"; the brass rails are...

Such a poor experience, almost laughable. Food is okay and service is messy. Every step was clunky and lengthy. They got some of my order wrong - not the first time that happens on a tgi fridays, for some reason they pull out the note pad half way through my order or not at all and then they don’t get it correctly, surprise surprise- so they had to re-do it and it ended up on the queue and I had to wait 30 mins after all the other people who came after me got their food. The beverage I chose was unavailable so refill was different. Payment process also slow, changed staff, changed cashier, took ages as the staff couldn’t even operate the cashier and the one who seemed the supervisor came to help laughing and giggling. Typical high school recess vibe among the staff that ends up in bad service. Less laughing and playing around, and more focus and being...

I really have no complaints. A couple years ago I think they changed management and from that point on its been much better. The service has improved, the quality of the food has also increased and the atmosphere while not quiet is nice enough.

Admittedly, I tend to go here for a burger fix. It's the only place in Taiwan I've found that will make a burger to order. The portions are large causing my wife to often take some home for another meal.

Their Jack Daniels grill menu is decent with a pretty good set of ribs on the menu.

The prices are high, I won't lie to you. You're paying normal USA Fridays prices for a meal, which comparatively in Taiwan does not match the cost of living well. So for that reason we don't go very often. Maybe once every couple of months...