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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.
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 ...
William Bristor Darden (November 17, 1918 – March 29, 1994), known as Bill, was an American businessman and the founder of the Red Lobster restaurant franchise. He is also the namesake of the multi-brand restaurant operator Darden Restaurants, which considers Darden to be its founder.
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 ...
Olive Garden's parent company Darden Restaurants has announced it has partnered with Uber to offer delivery from the Italian restaurant, starting late in 2024.
Blum oversaw Olive Garden and Smokey Bones (considered one of Darden's most promising new restaurant companies). Darden was, and is, considered the largest casual dining restaurant company in the world, and Blum oversaw quality assurance, purchasing, and distribution for all the brand-name restaurants that Darden owned.
If you ate at an Olive Garden restaurant between Dec. 4, 2006 and Aug. 10, 2007 you could be getting a free appetizer, courtesy of a class action lawsuit. The settlement was made official on ...