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WBC HISTORY : T.G.I. Friday’s® is credited for modernizing and popularizing flair bartending in the United States beginning in the mid 1980s. London and Orlando were the hotbeds of flair bartending in the early and mid 1990s. The earliest known competition for flair bartending was held by T.G.I. Friday’s® in Marina del Rey, California around