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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000703351-20-000030
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200501

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="i9321c64b658f487bb817f9510cc66313_35"></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%;">May 1, 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%;">Thank you for your response on our April 9, 2020 response to your comment letter. We hereby submit our response to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission conveyed in a letter to us dated April 22, 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 response. </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="text-indent:-18pt;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.</font><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%;padding-left:8.72pt;">We note your response regarding the presentation of the sub-total &#34;Company restaurant expenses&#34; on the face of your statements of comprehensive income. You state the subtotal captures expenses directly related to sales for the period. However, the subtotal excludes depreciation and other costs, such as remodel costs, that appear to be directly related to restaurant sales (in addition to the excluded items noted in our prior comment). In addition, as we previously noted, the name of this sub-total is very similar to the expense captioned &#8220;Restaurant expenses&#8221; included within it. We believe that a sub-total quantifying the components of the leading caption &#34;Company restaurants (excluding depreciation and amortization)&#34; should not be presented on the face of the statement for the aforementioned reasons. We would not object to your </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 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%;">continued indentation of food and beverage costs, restaurant labor, and restaurant expenses under the leading caption.</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%;">Beginning with our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 24, 2020 we will no longer present the sub-total &#8220;Company Restaurant Expenses&#8221; on the face of the statements of comprehensive income. We will continue to indent food and beverage costs, restaurant labor and restaurant expenses under the leading caption.</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 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><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><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%;">Sincerely,</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%;">&#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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