Outback Steakhouse Survey Guide: What Happened to Telloutback.com

Status update, August 2026: we are publishing this as a status page rather than a normal how-to guide. For years, Outback Steakhouse receipts carried a short survey invitation pointing guests to Telloutback.com, and third-party guides widely described completing it as an entry into a monthly cash sweepstakes. When we checked on July 28 and again on August 3, 2026, telloutback.com did not resolve at all, so there was nothing for us to open or confirm. We could not find a working replacement address on Outback's or Bloomin' Brands' own websites, and we could not find an official statement that the program has ended either. Below is what we were able to verify about the chain and the historical survey, what we specifically could not verify, and the feedback channels that do still appear to exist. Whatever is printed on your own current receipt is more reliable than this page or any other outside guide.

About Outback Steakhouse

Outback Steakhouse opened its first restaurant on March 15, 1988, in Tampa, Florida, founded by Bob Basham, Chris T. Sullivan, Trudy Cooper, and Tim Gannon. The chain built its identity around an Australian-inspired casual dining concept, becoming known for menu items like the Bloomin' Onion appetizer and its steak-focused entrées. Outback is now owned by Bloomin' Brands, Inc., also headquartered in Tampa, which owns several other casual dining concepts including Carrabba's Italian Grill, Bonefish Grill, and Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar. Outback operates locations across the United States as well as in a number of international markets.

What the Reward Was Reported to Be

Third-party survey-guide sites have consistently described the Telloutback reward as an entry into a monthly sweepstakes drawing for a $1,000 cash prize, with one winner picked at random from that month's pool of entries. We want to be precise about where that number comes from: we have never been able to open an official rules document for it, and now that telloutback.com does not resolve, every source still repeating the $1,000 figure is an unofficial site rather than Outback or Bloomin' Brands. Treat it as an unverified historical figure, not a live offer. Even when the program was running as described, this was a sweepstakes rather than an instant reward — the overwhelming majority of people who completed it won nothing, and the realistic benefit was that the feedback reached the location visited. If your current receipt prints a specific offer and address, that printed information supersedes anything on this page.

Why the Search Results Are Risky Right Now

This is the part of the page that matters most in August 2026. Advice you will still see elsewhere — “just make sure the address bar says telloutback.com” — no longer works, because that address does not load for anyone. What fills the gap instead is a cluster of lookalike sites reusing the Telloutback name on domain endings such as .bond, .site, and .autos, several of which rank highly when you search the term and still advertise the $1,000 prize. None of those are operated by Outback Steakhouse or Bloomin' Brands, and we are deliberately not linking to them.

Practical rules while the official address is unreachable: do not enter a receipt code, email address, phone number, or date of birth on any site that merely has “outback” in its name. No legitimate restaurant survey needs your Social Security number, bank account, or card number to begin. Treat any survey link that arrives by text message, email, or a social media ad as unverified regardless of how official it looks. The only address worth trusting is one printed on a receipt you are holding — and if what is printed there is telloutback.com, it will simply fail to load, which is the expected result rather than a problem with your device.

Survey Rules & Requirements

These are the terms third-party guides reported while the program was reachable. We could not confirm them against an official rules document, and with the survey address down we cannot confirm any of them are still in force. They are recorded here for reference only.

• Entry was reported to be limited to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico, aged at least 18 at the time of entry.
• A valid, recent Outback Steakhouse purchase receipt carrying a survey invitation and code was required. The receipt itself stated how long the code stayed valid, which is why the printed receipt always outranked outside guides on this point.
• Entries were reported as limited to one per person per monthly entry period, with each additional online entry requiring a different, unused code from a separate receipt.
• Employees of Outback Steakhouse, its parent company Bloomin' Brands, affiliated restaurant brands, marketing agencies, and their immediate family members were reported to be ineligible. Sweepstakes of this type in the U.S. ordinarily also carry a free mail-in alternate method of entry, but we cannot verify the current mailing address for one without a live rules page to read it from.

What to Do Instead

1. Check your most recent Outback Steakhouse receipt for a printed survey address or QR code. If it prints something other than telloutback.com, follow what is on the receipt — that is newer information than this page.
2. If your receipt prints telloutback.com, expect it to fail to load. Do not go looking for a substitute in search results, because that is exactly where the lookalike domains are waiting.
3. To send feedback about a specific visit, use Outback's own contact page at outback.com/contact-us, which sits on the brand's own domain rather than a third-party survey host.
4. Bloomin' Brands, Outback's parent company, also runs a guest relations help center at guestrelations.bloominbrands.com with a request form covering its restaurant brands. Our automated checks were blocked from reading these two pages directly, so we can confirm they are live on company-owned domains but cannot quote their current contents.
5. Do not enter a receipt code or personal details anywhere just to chase the reported $1,000 prize. There is currently no address we can verify that would put you into such a drawing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

• telloutback.com — does not resolve in DNS (checked July 28, 2026; re-checked August 3, 2026)
• outbacklistens.com, outbackfeedback.com — alternate addresses suggested by third-party sites; neither resolves (checked August 3, 2026)
• Outback Steakhouse — Contact Us (outback.com)
• Bloomin' Brands — Guest Relations help center
• Outback Steakhouse — About Us (outback.com)
• Bloomin' Brands — Our Brands