03-06-2020, 12:29 AM
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OK . . . am I going off the "beaten path" again? Well . . . not really. The founder of Chili's was Larry Lavine. Who is Larry Lavine? He is the son-in-law of Carroll Shelby who just happened to have a passion about chili. Shelby owned 220,000 acres in West Texas near the town of Terlingua, where he co-founded the world’s first chili cook-off. Lavine had gone to a few cookoffs before opening the first Chili's in Dallas, TX (1975)
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