UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP ( ) Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instructions 1(b). 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person Basham, Robert Danker 2202 North Westshore Boulevard, 5th Floor Tampa, Florida 33607 United States 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Outback Steakhouse, Inc. OSI 3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary) 4. Statement for Month/Year 12/31/01 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) (X) Director (X) 10% Owner (X) Officer (give title below) ( ) Other (specify below) President, Chief Operating Officer 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) (X) Form filed by One Reporting Person ( ) Form filed by More than One Reporting Person ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned | ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| 1. Title of Security |2. |3. |4.Securities Acquired (A) |5.Amount of |6.Dir |7.Nature of Indirect | | Transaction | or Disposed of (D) | Securities |ect | Beneficial Ownership | | | | | Beneficially |(D)or | | | | | | | A/| | Owned at |Indir | | | Date |Code|V| Amount | D | Price | End of Month |ect(I)| | ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| Common Stock, par value $.0|- |- |-|- |- |- |212,853 |D | | 1 | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Common Stock, par value $.0|- |- |-|- |- |- |7,820,060 |I |(1) | 1 | | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Common Stock, par value $.0|12/20/|J |V|1,940,000 |N/A|N/A |1,940,000 |I |(2) | 1 |01 | | | | | | | | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Table II -- Derivative Securitites Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned | ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| 1.Title of Derivative |2.Con- |3. |4. |5.Number of De |6.Date Exer|7.Title and Amount |8.Price|9.Number |10.|11.Nature of| Security |version |Transaction | rivative Secu |cisable and| of Underlying |of Deri|of Deriva |Dir|Indirect | |or Exer | | | rities Acqui |Expiration | Securities |vative |tive |ect|Beneficial | |cise | | | red(A) or Dis |Date(Month/| |Secu |Securities |(D)|Ownership | |Price of| | | posed of(D) |Day/Year) | |rity |Benefi |or | | |Deriva- | | | |Date |Expir| | |ficially |Ind| | |tive | | | | A/|Exer-|ation| Title and Number | |Owned at |ire| | |Secu- | | | | | D |cisa-|Date | of Shares | |End of |ct | | |rity |Date |Code|V| Amount | |ble | | | |Month |(I)| | ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| Explanation of Responses: Note 1: Owned by Multi-Venture Partners, Ltd., a Nevada limited partnership ("MVP"). The reporting person is a limited partner in MVP and owns an interest in the General Partner of MVP. Note 2: On December 20, 2001, Mr. Basham contributed 1,940,000 shares to the Robert D. Basham Irrevocable Trust Agreement of 2001 of which the reporting person is the beneficiary. Mr. Basham continues to report beneficial ownership of all of the common stock held by the trust. The foregoing transaction is exempt from Section 16 pursuant to Rule 16a-13 as a change in form of beneficial ownership. The shares are now reported as indirectly owned as reflected in Table 1. SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON Robert D. Basham