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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Red Lobster Hospitality, LLC is an American casual dining restaurant chain headquartered in Orlando, Florida.The company has operations across most of the United States (including Puerto Rico and Guam) and Canada, as well as in China, Ecuador, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates; as of June 23, 2020, the company had 719 locations worldwide.
China Coast was a casual dining American restaurant chain owned by Darden Restaurants Inc., specializing in American Chinese cuisine . Founded in 1990 in Orlando, Florida, [1] China Coast was intended to join Olive Garden and Red Lobster as Darden's signature properties. [2] It had been expected by executives to become the top Chinese-style ...
Kenny Rogers Roasters is a chain of chicken-based restaurants founded in 1991 by the late great country musician Kenny Rogers and former KFC CEO John Y. Brown Jr., who was a former governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky.