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The firm owns three fine dining restaurant chains: Ruth's Chris Steak House, Eddie V's Prime Seafood, and The Capital Grille; and seven casual dining restaurant chains: Olive Garden Italian Restaurant, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Yard House, and Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen. In July 2024, Darden agreed to acquire Chuy's. [3]
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.
Darden Restaurants Inc. owns Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Yard House, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and Eddie V’s.
In 1980, General Mills acquired the California-based Good Earth health food restaurant chain. [18] The company eventually converted the restaurants into other chain restaurants they were operating, such as Red Lobster. [19] [20] In 1982, General Mills Restaurants founded a new Italian-themed restaurant chain called Olive Garden.
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 ...
Cheddar's is a smaller chain with just 165 locations — about one sixth the size of Olive Garden — in 28 states.
Olive Garden said Thursday it’s teaming up with Uber to offer delivery for the first time. Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and other chains, said Olive Garden will be the first of its brands to offer third-party delivery starting later this year. Individual orders will be picked up and delivered by Uber Direct ...
Darden Restaurants , which owns Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse, reported its quarterly results in June. Same-store sales at Longhorn Steakhouse grew 4%, but sales dropped 1.5% at Olive ...