Darden Restaurants, Incorporated began with its founder William (Bill) Darden in 1938. At the age of nineteen, Bill opened his first restaurant, The Green Frog, in Georgia. Thirty years later, Bill opened another restaurant, Red Lobster. His focus for the restaurant was to provide quality seafood at affordable prices to landlocked cities. Located in the center of Florida, Lakeland was the perfect city to begin Bill’s restaurant legacy. Offering a prime location, the city sat in the center of the state, one of the furthest points from water in Florida. The first Red lobster was managed by Joe R. Lee who later became chief executive officer of Darden Restaurants. Bill and Joe regularly worked the entirety of each shift in order to maintain the
The company has been franchising since 1997 and currently has over 600 restaurants across the globe. Many celebrities such as Rick Ro$$ and
Ever since Publix first opened, the founder George Washington Jenkins Jr., believed that if a CEO takes care of their employees then they will take care of the business. Jenkins made sure to create an above satisfactory work environment where his employees would not only be happy to come to work everyday but would also be motivated.
Olive Garden was founded in 1982 owned and operated by Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants is the nations largest most successful restaurant chain. Darden Restaurants also own and operates The Red Lobster chain. Olive garden offers a family home style dining with inspiring recipes from Tuscany, Italy. Their Culinary school was founded in 1999 in Tuscany, Italy. Where they train their chefs and create menus for the restaurant. With a remarkable wine selection and great home cook Italian meal and a affordable menu price I have always enjoyed my stay at the Olive Garden. Olive Garden has received many award throughout their history. Recent awards came from the Nation's Restaurant News which presented Olive Garden with the "Menu Masters" award
Looking at the population and the center point, Hummingbird St, Houston, TX 77096, USA is the best location to establish the restaurant.
It all started with a man by the name of George McKerrow Jr, who had a passion for delicious steaks. Luckily he had a snowstorm hit his hometown in Atlanta, Georgia that brought stranded motorist into the only hospitable place available- a restaurant called LongHorn Steaks Restaurant & Saloon. The tales of the expertly grilled steak was spread like a wildfire throughout the towns. This was the beginning of a new chain restaurant called LongHorn Steakhouse, which is known for their Flo’s Filet and the Bone-In Outlaw, fall of the bone ribs, and hand cut salmon. In later years, LongHorn eventually joined Darden Restaurants with Olive Garden and Red Lobster. With a location in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, it is one of many steakhouses that you can choose from. It is a well-organized restaurant that has been serving steak, chicken, and fish for 30 years where the meat is never frozen. In addition to that, it is the only steakhouse that catches the eyes of the customer, usually from the dark red lights that light up during the night. The restaurant is opened Sunday to Thursday from 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM and Friday to Saturday 11:00 to 11:00 PM.
Chili’s originated with wanting to become a place for people to hang out with good company over some food and a drink or two. This restaurant is about creating a connection with family and friends that integrate over the love of food. The first location was opened in Dallas, Texas in 1975. It was first a post office before it became a little hangout place named Chili’s. The company was founded by Larry Lavine which is now taken over by Brinker Incorporated. Larry’s idea of Chili’s was going to be a laidback place where people can have fun and hangout. He wanted a menu that was affordable to people and wanted to create American food using a Texan-Mexican themed menu. In 1983, Larry was smart to sell the company to Brinker Incorporated.
What makes a burger the best? According to Texas Monthly, it takes a tender patty and a near-salacious experience. This is exactly what they found with Folc's Brisket Burger with Pork Belly. It was so fabulous that the magazine chose it as the number one burger in Texas.
I would like to give recognition to David Wilson for what he has accomplished in Cedar Hill. His restaurant, David’s Seafood Grill, has been and still is a great place to dine at with a variety of good food in his menu. The atmosphere is very comfortable and extremely family friendly. It is not only a fine place to dine at, but a great place to meet new people and make friends. Because of David, his staff and the restaurant, Bonnie and I have met a lot of good people and become close friends with many of them. We took our families to David’s to eat, have fun and create new memories. I have family who have searched for a David-like restaurant in their city, but to their disappointment they could not find one that come close to what David’s
The story of the foundation of the first Subway restaurant started in 1965 by the 17-year-old Fred DeLuca who, seeking to earn money for college, decided to take a $1000 loan and opened a submarine sandwich shop that eventually grew into the number-one restaurant chain in the world. The young man was willing to earn some money to have
Darden Restaurants owns a number of specialty brands that are located throughout the United States and Canada. These include: the Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, the Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Eddie V's Prime Seafood and Wildfish Seafood Grille. The company has 2 thousand locations and they employ 135 thousand people. Their primary markets are middle class to affluent families. ("Our Company," 2012)
Famed for it’s single malt whisky, the Dalmore Distillery was founded in 1839 by Alexander Matheson, and is located on the northern shores of the Cromarty Firth, over looking the Black Isle, in Alness in the Scottish Highlands.
Joe Smithson established Joe’s Garage in 2005. He currently advertises in local newspapers and receives customer calls on his cell phone. He keeps his appointments organised on his smart phone as he is relatively comfortable using this type of device.
Darden Restaurants, Inc. has been a public company since 1995. A company born of the chain Red Lobster, Darden is a recent spin-off as a result of mergers and acquisitions of various types. Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, Darden (DRI) is the parent company of Red Lobster, The Olive Garden, the now-defunct China Coast concept, and a new “Floribbean” concept: Bahama Breezes.
Multi-unit Restaurant Business concepts are represented by units with independent operators. The concepts are categorized into three industry segments 1) specialty establishments, 2) quick service restaurants, and 3) casual dining. An excellent example of this concept business is The Darden family of restaurants, founded from Lakeland, FL, which features the following most successful and recognizable brands in full- service dining: Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Long Horn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, The Capital Grille, Eddie V’s, and Yard House. According to their last SEC 10-k report filing, they own and operate worldwide more than 2,000 restaurants, employ 185,000 people, and serve more than 423 million meals a year. The
In 1995, Outback Steakhouse was proclaimed as one of the most successful restaurant chains in the United States. The chain was started by Chris Sullivan, Bob Basham, and Tim Gannon during the 1980s. Prior to starting the Outback Steakhouse chain, Sullivan and Basham were successful franchisees of the Chili’s Restaurant chain. About the same time Gannon played a significant role in several New Orleans restaurant chains. Outback Steakhouse, formerly known as Multi-Venture Partners, was founded in 1987 after Sullivan and Basham sold their Chili’s franchise to fund their venture and they invited Gannon to join. In 1988 the trio opened their first two restaurants in Tampa, Florida.