Darden Restaurants

Darden Restaurants, Inc. is an American multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Orlando.[4] As of April 2017, the firm owns two fine dining restaurant chains: Eddie V’s Prime Seafood and The Capital Grille; and six casual dining restaurant chains: Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Yard House and Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen. Until July 28, 2014, Darden also owned Red Lobster. Darden has more than 1,500 restaurant locations and more than 150,000 employees, making it the world’s largest full-service restaurant company.[1] As of 2018, Darden is the only Fortune 500 company with its corporate headquarters in Greater Orlando.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. engages in the provision of restaurant services. It operates through the following segments: Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Fine Dining, and Other Business. The Olive Garden segment is the largest full-service dining Italian restaurant operator in the United States. The LongHorn Steakhouse segment includes the results of the company-owned LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants in the United States of America. The Fine Dining segment accumulates the premium brands that operate within the fine-dining sub-segment of full-service dining and includes the results of its company-owned The Capital Grille and Eddie V’s restaurants in the United States of America. The Other Business segment aggregates the remaining brands and includes the results of its company-owned Yard House, Seasons 52 and Bahama Breeze restaurants in the United States of America. This segment also includes results from franchises and consumer-packaged goods sales. The company was founded by William B. Darden in 1938 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.