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Darden Restaurants, Inc. is an American multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Orlando, Florida. [1] As of May 2023, the firm owns three fine dining restaurant chains: Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Eddie V's and The Capital Grille; and six casual dining restaurant chains: Olive Garden Italian Restaurant, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Yard House and Cheddar's Scratch ...
Good Earth (restaurant chain) Good Earth was a natural foods restaurant chain and bakery originally founded in Reno, Nevada, by William Galt and Nancy Galt. The Galts sold the concept to General Mills in 1980. [ 1] After expansion to more than 50 locations across the United States, the concept lost popularity.
In 1985, Chin, who had run the day-to-day operations, sold the rights to her name and her restaurants to General Mills. [2] [3] Chin regained the ownership of her business in 1988. [3] By the time Chin left the business in the late 1990s, the Leeann Chin chain had become a Chinese fast food operation. [2]
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 ...
However, locations opened in Chicago faltered and General Mills put an end to opening new restaurants. The restaurants and name were bought back from General Mills by Leeann Chin Inc. in 1988, with the help of Capital Dimensions Venture Fund. Lorne Goldberg bought the chain in 2007, through his Los Angeles-based Mandarin Holdings.
She was taken into custody on a misdemeanor charge of defrauding an innkeeper and driven to the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff’s station — about 20 miles from the restaurant. Her car was towed to a ...
In 1970, General Mills acquired a five-unit restaurant company called Red Lobster and expanded it nationwide. Soon, a division of General Mills titled General Mills Restaurants developed to take charge of the Red Lobster chain. In 1980, General Mills acquired the California-based Good Earth health food restaurant chain. [18]
Joseph Lamour. June 7, 2024 at 11:33 PM. Eight Black employees of a General Mills plant in Georgia have filed a class-action complaint against the brand over what they say is race-based ...