Chili’s parent company Brinker International had a profitable first quarter of its fiscal year despite continued challenges with traffic, which was down 5.8% overall. "The strategy for continuing to steadily improve traffic, Brinker CFO Joe Taylor said during Wednesday’s earnings call, is to focus on ramped-up advertising and continued menu simplification, particularly for Chili’s which emphasizes its 'core four' menu categories: fajitas, margaritas, burgers, and Chicken Crispers," per Nation's Restaurant News.