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Olive Garden
American restaurant chain
Olive Garden is an American casual diningrestaurant chain specializing in Italian-American cuisine. It is a subsidiary of Darden Restaurants, Inc., which is headquartered in Orange County, Florida.[2] As of , Olive Garden restaurants accounted for $ billion of the $ billion revenue of its parent, Darden.[3][4]
History
The Olive Garden started as a unit of General Mills.
The Olive Garden's first restaurant was opened on December 13, , in Orlando, Florida, by co-founders Blaine Sweatt, Mark Given, Gino DeSantis and Dave Manuchia.
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By , there were The Olive Garden restaurants, making it the fastest-growing units in the General Mills restaurant division. The Olive Garden restaurants were uniformly popular, and the chain's per-store sales soon matched former sister company Red Lobster.
The company eventually became the largest chain of Italian-themed full-service restaurants in the United States.[5]