Texas Roadhouse is a chain restaurant company that specializes in steaks and promotes a Western theme. The company was founded in 1993 in Clarksville, Indiana, by W. Kent Taylor. The company operates over 600 locations in 49 U.S. states and in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Philippines, Mexico, and Taiwan. Texas Roadhouse is known for its free buckets of peanuts at each table and its line dancing servers. The company went public in 2004 and is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol TXRH.