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Brinker International

Brinker International is a leading casual dining restaurant company that owns, operates, and franchises Chili's Grill & Bar and Maggiano's Little Italy. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Brinker operates over 1,600 Chili's locations across 29 countries and over 50 Maggiano's locations in the United States. The company leverages digital ordering platforms, loyalty programs, mobile apps, in-restaurant kiosks, and point-of-sale integrations for restaurant operations, running a unified open-source e-commerce environment built on Red Hat (RHEL, Satellite, Lightspeed) and using Prismic CMS for digital content management. Brinker operates an SSO-gated partner/franchise API developer portal at developer.brinker.com for onboarding partners; there is no public, self-service developer API, OpenAPI specification, SDK, or open GitHub organization. Consumer-facing surfaces are the Chili's and Maggiano's mobile apps and websites and their loyalty programs.

human only

Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Brinker International the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Brinker International scores 8.5/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 8.5/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Brinker International

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Brinker International. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Brinker International Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Brinker International — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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