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Joe's Darden Restaurant History

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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

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