We Are Your Voice


At TRA, we love making restaurants more successful. Want to learn more about what we're doing to make Texas restaurants the best in the country?

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On average, restaurants in Texas can save 17% on essential items for their business, including office supplies, health insurance, energy, and rebates on your most purchased items. 

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Protect, Advance, Educate

The Texas Restaurant Association is a membership organization that helps restaurant and foodservice businesses stay open, staffed up, educated, and profitable so that they can focus on their communities and the art of hospitality.  

Cost-Savings

We love negotiating good deals on behalf of our members, and you'll find a growing list of relevant partners working with us to keep your doors open.

Industry News

Valuable content whenever and wherever you need it - TRA mobile app, newsletters, webinars, articles, and action alerts.

Education & Training

Receive discounts on all your needed certifications and attend local or statewide association events to meet industry experts.

Advocating for your restaurant business

TRA is pro-business on local, state, and federal issues important to our members' bottom lines. We support ideas, legislation, and proposed laws that stimulate the economy and protect the growth of our industry and oppose those that could harm the success of our members' businesses.
 

Recent legislative wins include:

2021

Alcohol To-Go

HB 1024 makes permanent Governor Abbott’s emergency waiver allowing restaurants to sell beer, wine, and liquor with pick-up and delivery food orders, protecting a critical revenue stream for many restaurants.

2021

PPP/RRF Deductibility

HB 1195 protects businesses from unexpected tax bills by providing relief dollars from federal, tax-free relief programs like the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) do not count as revenue for the purposes of Texas’ franchise tax.

2021

3rd Party Delivery

SB 911 protects restaurants in the third-party delivery market by enacting transparency protections and empowering restaurants to file a civil lawsuit against a company that violates the protections.

Support during COVID-19

Throughout the entire COVID-19 pandemic, the TRA was in constant communication with restaurant operators, bringing them the latest and most important resources. Working with our lawmakers, regulators, members, and allied partners, the Texas Restaurant Association has created critical lifelines to support the industry’s recovery from the economic devastation caused by COVID-19.

Texas Restaurant Promise

TRA lead the reopening standard with the governor’s office, ensuring that restaurant employees and guest would follow standard safety protocols to keep everyone safe while dining out.

TX Restaurant Relief Fund

By launching the TX Restaurant Relief Fund in 2020, TRA & the Foundation raised $3.5M and distributed more than 800 grants to Texas restaurants who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advocacy & Legislative Accomplishments

TRA fought for tax relief and special waivers (i.e. mixed drinks to go) to support operators’ evolution of their business models to adapt during the pandemic. 

Your restaurant community is waiting


Members of the TRA represent everything from quick service to fine dining, fast casual to catering, and everything in between. As a member of the TRA, you've found the tribe you can turn to for advice, education, and understanding.