their TV commercial. In September 2017, Chili's dropped about 40 percent of its menu items to focus on burgers, ribs, and fajitas. In February 2020, Chili's announced a new marketing campaign encouraging people to "laugh so hard you pee a little." The new campaign was focused on "Out to 'Ita" and used elements of ASMR. Locations As of 2015, they have 1,580 locations worldwide, including 839 that are company-owned and 741 that are franchised. Legal problems In October 2008, a Chili's Australia franchise was prosecuted and fined A$300,000 by the NSW Office of Industrial Relations for underpaying staff, pressuring employees to sign an Australian workplace agreement, and failing to pay A$45,000 in owed wages by a deadline set by the Office of Industrial Relations. In the same year, Chili's announced that it would be permanently closing all of its Australian locations indefinitely due to poor sales, unprofitability, and due to the company failing to comply with the Fair Work Act 2009. Controversies 2008: On June 5, a woman from Washington named Anne Paskett filed a class-action suit against Brinker International. Paskett and the rest of the plaintiffs claimed that the restaurant chain's so-called healthier offerings, like the Chili's "Guiltless Black Bean Burger" have nutritional values much different than the ones listed on the menu. Independent laboratory tests were conducted, discovering that the fat content of the items are sometimes 'double, or even triple, the amount shown on these menus. 2009: Brinker International fired a Chili's employee for the claim of sexual harassment, only to employ her again after the public outrage. They claimed that her termination was a computer error. 2018: Brinker International disclosed that its data network had been breached between March and April 2018, exposing the personally identifiable information of its customers. Subsequently, several customers of Chili's filed suit against the company, alleging that its failure to comply with industry standards for information security and implement adequate data security measures to protect its data networks from the potential danger of a data breach had caused them to incur fraudulent charges on their payment cards. 2019: Chili's Restaurant was fined after an employee fell into a vat of scalding water. 2020: Brinker International and its Chili's subsidiary paid US$150,000 to settle sexual harassment allegations from five female employees. In popular culture Chili's was a key location in The Office season 2 episode "The Client". The episode shows Michael and