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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000703351-20-000017
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200409

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BRINKER INTERNATIONAL, INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000703351
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812]
		IRS NUMBER:				751914582
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0624

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		3000 OLYMPUS BLVD.
		CITY:			DALLAS
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			75019
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9729809917

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		3000 OLYMPUS BLVD.
		CITY:			DALLAS
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			75019

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	BRINKER INTERNATIONAL INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	CHILIS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19910528
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="ib133372fb6ae41be8b5fc23b25ff53a8_1"></div><div style="height:72pt;width:100%;"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Brinker International, Inc</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">3000 Olympus Boulevard</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Dallas, Texas  75019</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">April 9, 2020</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Via EDGAR Transmission</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Division of Corporation Finance</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Office of Trade &#38; Services</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">100 F Street, N. E.</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Washington, D. C. 20549</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Attention&#58; Theresa Brillant, Lyn Shenk</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;"> </font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Re&#58;  &#160;Brinker International, Inc.</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June 26, 2019</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Filed August 22, 2019</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;File No. 001-10275</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Dear Division of Corporation Finance&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">We hereby submit our response to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission conveyed in a letter to us dated March 31, 2020, in connection with the Staff&#8217;s review of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 26, 2019 (the &#8220;Form 10-K&#8221;).  For your convenience, we have reproduced the Staff's comments in bold preceding our responses. </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration: underline;">Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended June 26, 2019</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration: underline;">Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, page F-19</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;">1. We note your presentation of the sub-total &#34;Company restaurant expenses&#34; on the face of your statements of comprehensive income and that this sub-total excludes certain operating expenses for restaurant-related charges for impairments and asset write-offs as detailed in note 5 on page F-37. We also note that the name of this sub-total is very similar to the expense captioned &#8220;Restaurant expenses&#8221; included within it. Please tell us your basis for presenting this sub-total and for excluding restaurant-related charges from it.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:72pt;"><div style="position:absolute;bottom:0;width:100%;"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="height:72pt;width:100%;"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration: underline;">Response&#58;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">We present the subtotal caption &#34;Company restaurant expenses&#34; on the face of our consolidated statements of comprehensive income to provide investors with better insight into the expenses directly related to Company sales for the periods presented.  We believe investors in our industry focus on analyzing food and beverage costs, restaurant labor and restaurant expenses more frequently in comparison to sales volume.  The Restaurant expenses caption primarily includes restaurant rent, property and equipment maintenance, supplies, utilities, advertising, credit card processing fees and property taxes.  </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">As noted by the Staff, the sub-total caption &#8220;Company restaurant expenses&#8221; excludes certain expenses for restaurant-related charges such as impairments or asset write-offs that are included in the &#8220;Other (gains) and charges&#8221; caption. We do not include these expenses in the &#8220;Restaurant expenses&#8221; caption as these expenses are not directly related to the sale of food and beverages.  The &#8220;Other (gains) and charges&#8221; caption is generally reflective of a history of underperformance relative to a small number of restaurants, rather than to current period sales of food and beverages at all of our restaurants.  Therefore, we believe this presentation and related disclosure in Note 5 of our Form 10-K provides users of the financial statements with transparent disclosure of the current period operating results, including impairments and asset write-offs. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;">It appears from your disclosure on page F-53 that &#8220;Cost of sales&#8221; may consist of food and beverage costs. If so, we believe you should consider retitling this caption accordingly because your cost of sales expense is not burdened with other direct and indirect costs of producing your food and beverage.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration: underline;">Response&#58;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">The &#8220;Cost of sales&#8221; caption on the face of our consolidated statements of comprehensive income includes the outside purchase costs of the raw materials and ingredients used in the preparation of food and beverage products we sell in our company-owned restaurants.  The amounts included in the &#8220;Cost of Sales&#8221; caption are not burdened with other direct or indirect costs.  In future filings we will retitle this caption to &#8220;Food and beverage costs&#8221;.    </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;">Please revise the notes to your financial statements to narratively describe the types of expenses included in &#8220;Restaurant expenses.&#8221;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration: underline;">Response&#58;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">In future filings we will revise the notes to our financial statements to include a narrative disclosure regarding the composition of &#8220;Restaurant expenses&#8221;.  This caption primarily includes restaurant rent, property and equipment maintenance, supplies, utilities, advertising, credit card processing fees and property taxes.  </font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">In connection with responding to the Comment Letter, the Company acknowledges that the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in the Form&#160;10-K, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the Staff.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><font><br></font></div><div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:72pt;"><div style="position:absolute;bottom:0;width:100%;"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="height:72pt;width:100%;"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">If you have any questions regarding our responses please contact me at (972) 770-5888.  </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;"> </font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Sincerely,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;"> </font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">&#47;s&#47; Joseph G. Taylor</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Joseph G. Taylor</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255, 0.0);color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;">cc&#58; Daniel Fuller, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary</font></div><div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:72pt;"><div style="position:absolute;bottom:0;width:100%;"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>
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