A lot of country stars have plenty of bad jobs they took before they were able to make a living in music, but Tyler Rich has nothing but fond memories of his job before music.  “I worked at Red Robin for about eight years.  Red Robin was such an incredible company to work for,” says Tyler.

That’s pretty much the only job Tyler had before music because he started when he was 17 and climbed the corporate ladder within the company.  He says, “When I was 17 [I was] a busser and then lead into training bussers, to serving, to training servers, to bartending, to managing, to being a corporate trainer where I would travel and open up these new locations, and train all the locals that were going to work there full time. “

What made Red Robin the perfect place to work is that they completely supported Tyler’s dream of becoming a singer.  He says, “They all just believed in me. And anytime I would go on the road, with one of my bands, ‘Yeah, I need two months off.  We’re going to go travel around in a van and play music to anybody that will listen. And they’d be like, ‘Absolutely. When you get back all your shifts will be the same.’ And they were just always really amazing.”

We imagine the people at Red Robin who supported Tyler’s dream feel pretty smart now since his debut single, “The Difference,” is steadily climbing the charts, and he was just announced as an opener for Brett Young this fall for CMT On Tour: Here Tonight.

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“I worked at Red Robin for about eight years. Red Robin was such an incredible company to work for. Not only do they have bottomless fries, but man they just really supported my dream. I started when I was 17 as a busser and then lead into training bussers, to serving, to training servers, to bartending, to managing, to being a corporate trainer where I would travel and open up these new locations, and train all the locals that were going to work there full time. And they all just believed in me. And anytime I would go on the road, with one of my bands, ‘Yeah, I need two months off.  We‘re going to go travel around in a van and play music to anybody that will listen. And they’d be like, ‘Absolutely. When you get back all your shifts will be the same.’ And they were just always really amazing.”