Coppell, Texas, US (Hybrid)1 open job
Italian-American restaurant chain with dine-in and takeout locations across the United States, known for family-style dining and part of the Brinker International family.
Maggiano's Little Italy runs Italian-American restaurants across the United States, built around a Famous Family Style Experience for groups of four or more and a dine-in and takeout menu that includes Chicken Parmesan, Baked Ziti, Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, and Fettuccine Alfredo, with gluten-free options for guests with dietary restrictions. The company is part of the Brinker International family, operating alongside Chili's Grill & Bar with shared resources and support.
The security surface is a familiar one in casual dining, and the stakes are concrete. Cardholder data flows through in-restaurant payment systems across a nationwide footprint; guest-facing ordering and takeout extend the perimeter beyond the dining room; and a distributed estate of locations means the threat model runs from point-of-sale compromise and payment-card theft to phishing, credential abuse, and third-party risk through the vendors and shared corporate infrastructure that keep restaurants running. Family-style, high-volume service for large groups does not change the attacker's incentives - it just raises transaction throughput.
For security practitioners, the work is likely to sit in domains standard to multi-unit food service: PCI-DSS scope and cardholder data protection, endpoint and POS hardening, identity and access management across shared Brinker International resources, network segmentation between restaurant and corporate environments, monitoring and incident response across many physical sites, and vendor risk management. The operating reality is a distributed retail environment with limited per-site technical staff, which favors standardized builds, centralized visibility, and controls that hold up under the tempo of a working restaurant.
