Grill Concepts, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns, operates, manages, and licenses restaurants in the United States. The company operates upscale casual and fine dining, full service restaurants primarily under the brand names of The Grill on the Alley and Daily Grill, as well as a quick service restaurant called In Short Order Daily Grill. As of March 5, 2012, it operated or licensed 29 restaurants, including 7 The Grill on the Alley-branded restaurants in California, Chicago, Dallas, and Florida; and 21 Daily Grill restaurants in California, Texas, Portland, Seattle, and Tulsa, as well as in the Washington, D.C. region. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Woodland Hills, California.