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First lady announces restaurant chain's plan to cut calories, sodium
— First Lady Michelle Obama applauded the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster Thursday for pledging to cut calories and sodium at its restaurants over the next 10 years. Speaking at the Olive Garden, a restaurant known for its all-you-...Tags: Olive Garden, Restaurant and Catering Industry, LongHorn Steakhouse, Seasons Restaurant, Children's Health
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Healthy fork in the road
Tribune staff reporterAs consumers increasingly ask for healthier fare, the company that operates Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants said Thursday that it will cut salt and calories across its menus by 10 percent over the next five years and 20 percent over the next...Tags: Olive Garden, Consumers, Salt, Chicago Restaurants, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Central Florida's Top Employers 2011: Darden Restaurants Inc.
Darden Restaurants is the world's largest casual dining company. The publicly held company (ticker symbol DRI) owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Capital Grille, Eddie V's Prime Seafood and Wildfish Seafood...Tags: Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Seasons Restaurant, Foods and Beverages, Career and Workplace
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Red Lobster debuts new ads featuring brand’s real people
The Dish - Orlando SentinelRed Lobster has launched of a new national advertising campaign featuring the real people of Red Lobster – a first for the brand and the latest step in a multi-year brand refresh designed to broaden its appeal. The new ads feature Red Lobster... -
Darden Restaurants pays rent to itself and saves on taxes
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelOrlando-based Darden Restaurants has cut its corporate taxes in some states by renting restaurants from itself, using a strategy that has led to challenges and millions of dollars in back taxes for some other big companies. The owner of chains... -
Let’s take a look at pay of local CEOs
Rounding out our coverage of this year's proxy pageant, today we'll take a look at which local executives fattened their wallets the most last year — and who took the biggest cuts — in a list that ranks local CEOs by the size of their...Tags: Olive Garden, Publix Super Markets Inc., Corporate Officers, Clarence Otis, AirTran
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Ex-Darden exec has plans for Romano's
Brad Blum is in the midst of trying to turn around a struggling Italian chain by tapping into Americans' penchant for the freshness and simplicity of authentic recipes. Sound familiar? It should. Blum made a name for himself at Darden Restaurants, where...Tags: Politics, Olive Garden, Winter Park, Corporate Officers, Health
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Businesses open wallets for 2010 political races
We're still more than a year out from next year's race for governor and other key down ballot races — such as that of House Speaker-designate Dean Cannon of Winter Park — but the region's deep corporate pockets are already putting their...Tags: Parties and Movements, Winter Park, Corporate Officers, Republican Party, Business
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Appetite for condo eateries has vanished
The restaurant industry is rough enough. It's even rougher when your primary business is real estate during a monster recession. Steve Kodsi found out the hard way last week when he closed two restaurants he operated in the bottom of one of his...Tags: Graduation, NPR, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Stanford University, Clarence Otis
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Darden, Disney bank on big spenders
Darden Restaurants is coming up with new ways to cater to its richest clientele by keeping detailed notes on its top 10,000 customers' food and wine preferences at Capital Grille. Walt Disney Co. is forging ahead with plans to build lavish vacation homes...Tags: Consumers, Olive Garden, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Companies and Corporations, Consumer Confidence
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Volcano heats up local tourism woes
Just when it seemed like things couldn't get worse for Orange County's tourist tax, the region's largest overseas leisure market went up in a cloud of smoke. Mayor Buddy Dyer, meet Eyjafjallajokull. Ash from the tongue-twister Icelandic volcano that...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Publix Super Markets Inc., Winter Park, International Assets Holding Corporation, PepsiCo Inc.
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Trying to outrun the food police
There was the assault on trans-fats. A new law requiring calorie counts on menus. A county in California that banned toys in too-fatty kids' meals. And now there's a war on sodium. It's no wonder the food industry is hurrying to outrun the increasingly...Tags: Walmart, Olive Garden, Corporate Officers, Health, Kentucky Fried Chicken
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