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Darden Restaurants

Darden Restaurants is the largest full-service restaurant company in the US, operating Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and other brands from its Orlando headquarters.

Tourism & HospitalityConsumer & E-commerce
Region
City
Orlando
Revenue
$11.4B (FY2024)
Employees
~190,000 (FY2024)
Ticker
NYSE: DRI
Founded
1995

Why it matters to the ecosystem

As a Fortune 500 restaurant operator, Darden is a large-scale buyer of restaurant-tech, supply-chain and consumer-data solutions and a major hospitality and technology talent employer in Central Florida.