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Glasgow Live
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Lee Grimsditch & David McLean

Glasgow's first TGI Fridays was unlike anything local diners had ever seen before

The late 1980s and early '90s saw a flood of American themed fast-food diners and bars open up across the UK - and Glasgow was no different.

And while the likes of McDonald's had long established itself in the city by this time, our appetite for the taste of US cuisine had only become more ravenous.

Another chain that made it to these shores was TGI Fridays, which first opened in New York in 1965 by founder Alan Stillman to help celebrate the weekend, hence its name standing for 'Thank God It's Friday.'

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