Red Robin (NASDAQRRGB) is a chain (restaurant chain) of casual dining restaurants founded in 1969 in Seattle, Washington, and now headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The chain is best known for its gourmet burgers (hamburger) and bottomless steak fries (French fried potatoes) as well as its freckled lemonade.

The original Red Robin stands at the corner of Furhman and Eastlake Avenues E. in Seattle, at the southern end of the University Bridge (University Bridge (Seattle)). This building dates from 1940 and was first called Sams Tavern. The owner, Sam, sang in a barber shop quartet and could frequently be heard singing the song "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin Along)". He liked the song so much that he eventually changed the name to Sams Red Robin. The original Red Robin closed on March 21, 2010 due to prohibitive maintenance costs for the old building.

In 1969, local Seattle restaurant entrepreneur Gerry Kingen bought the restaurant and expanded it. The business dropped the "Sam" and simply became Red Robin. The first restaurant was convert1200sqftm2abbr=on. In 1973, the restaurant expanded their business to include their most well-known hamburgers including the Red Robin Bacon Cheeseburger and the Royal Red Robin Burger which has a fried egg on the patty.

In 1979, Red Robin regulars, Mike and Steve Snyder, decided to open their own Red Robin in Yakima, Washington. The Snyder Group Company became Red Robins first franchisee. In 1980, Red Robin opened a restaurant in Portland, Oregon. In 1983, Red Robin adopted a mascot named Red. In 1985, the headquarters was moved from downtown Seattle to suburban Denver after Kingen sold a controlling interest in Red Robin Corp. to the Skylark (Skylark (restaurant)) Corporation of Japan. With marginal successes and poor financial performance under Skylarks management, Kingen, then a minority owner, in 1995 stepped back into the CEO position to nurse the company back to profitability. In 1994, the company introduced its "Bottomless Steak Fries." In 2000, the company celebrated the opening of its 150th restaurant. As of November 2008, there are over 400 locations across the United States and 18 in Canada.