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The Olive Garden started as a unit of General Mills. The Olive Garden's first restaurant was opened on December 13, 1982, in Orlando, Florida, by co-founders Blaine Sweatt, Mark Given, Gino DeSantis and Dave Manuchia. By 1989, there were 145 The Olive Garden restaurants, making it the fastest-growing units in the General Mills restaurant division.
If you’re looking for more Never Ending Olive Garden facts, be sure to check out the season five premiere of The Food That Built America on the History Channel this Sunday, February 25, at 9 p.m ...
On May 12, 2014, Darden announced that as part of the spinoff of Red Lobster, it was converting the co-located Red Lobster and Olive Garden locations into standalone Olive Garden locations. [27] On May 16, 2014, Darden announced that it would be selling the Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain to Golden Gate Capital for US$2.1 billion. [28]
Olive Garden, part of the Darden Restaurant Group, will move into the former O'Charley's building near the corner of Pearl Drive and Red Bank Road. The building sold to the Darden Restaurant Group ...
Over the course of the fiscal year, Olive Garden hiked prices up about 3.5%, compared to roughly 4% across Darden’s brands, which include LongHorn Steakhouse, Eddie V’s and Cheddar’s Scratch ...
Same-store sales at the Olive Garden chain rose 2% after three consecutive quarters of decline. In the year-ago quarter, sales grew 4.1%. LongHorn Steakhouse's same-store sales rose 7.5%, compared ...
In 1979 by Aubrey Good and Doug Rogers opened the first Cheddar's Casual Cafe in Arlington, Texas. [4] The name was proposed by a 5th-grade class when the founders asked for restaurant name suggestions. [5]
Fast food is no longer cheap, and fast-casual chains are benefiting from it. Rick Cardenas, CEO of Darden Restaurants—which owns Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, and Ruth’s ...