Ryan was a member of T.G.I. Friday's corporate real estate team, an assemblage of five thirty-something rambunctious Dirt Jocks on a weekly coast to coast mission in search of the elusive 100% location. Working out of Dallas, strike that, a suitcase, A Man Short is an R-rated scintillating portrayal of Friday's rise to the top of casual-dining during the 1980s, or as some like to refer as "The Decade of Excess."