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Description of Business	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2013
Description of Business
Description of Business	(1) Description of Business         The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Texas Roadhouse, Inc. ("TRI"), our wholly-owned subsidiaries and subsidiaries in which we own more than 50 percent interest (collectively, the "Company", "we", "our" and/or "us") as of and for the 53 weeks ended December 31, 2013 and 52 weeks ended December 25, 2012 and December 27, 2011. Our wholly-owned subsidiaries include: Texas Roadhouse Holdings LLC ("Holdings"), Texas Roadhouse Development Corporation ("TRDC"), Texas Roadhouse Management Corp ("Management Corp.") and Strategic Restaurant Concepts, LLC ("Strategic Concepts"). We and our subsidiaries operate restaurants primarily under the Texas Roadhouse name. Holdings also provides supervisory and administrative services for certain other franchise Texas Roadhouse restaurants. TRDC sells franchise rights and collects the franchise royalties and fees. Management Corp. provides management services to the Company and certain other franchise Texas Roadhouse restaurants. All significant balances and transactions between the consolidated entities have been eliminated.         As of December 31, 2013, we owned and operated 346 restaurants and franchised an additional 74 restaurants in 48 states and three foreign countries. Of the 420 restaurants that were operating at December 31, 2013, (i) 346 were Company-owned restaurants, 331 of which were wholly-owned and 15 of which were majority-owned and (ii) 74 were franchise restaurants.         As of December 25, 2012, we owned and operated 320 restaurants and franchised or licensed an additional 72 restaurants in 47 states and two foreign countries. Of the 392 restaurants that were operating at December 25, 2012, (i) 320 were Company-owned restaurants, 305 of which were wholly-owned and 15 of which were majority-owned, (ii) 71 were franchise restaurants and (iii) one was a license restaurant.

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The entire disclosure for the nature of an entity's business, the major products or services it sells or provides and its principal markets, including the locations of those markets. If the entity operates in more than one business, the disclosure also indicates the relative importance of its operations in each business and the basis for the determination (for example, assets, revenues, or earnings).

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