Olive Garden
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Olive Garden is a casual dining restaurant brand based in Orlando, Florida. Its network includes more than 800 restaurants and more than 92,000 employees. The company was founded in 1993 and is part of Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI).
Italy shapes the brand’s menu, wine list, and restaurant design, and its concept is centered on Italian casual dining. Olive Garden also operates the Culinary Institute of Tuscany, established in 1999, which is used for internal cultural immersion and training.
Through its restaurants, Olive Garden serves guests looking for full-service dining. Its scale includes more than $3.5 billion in annual sales. More than 1,200 managers and team members have participated in the Culinary Institute of Tuscany program.
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Updated 21 Aug 2026Olive Garden appears to be sticking with an expansion-through-replacement approach. Reporting says the chain plans a new Rosemead, California location at 3518 Rosemead Blvd., taking over a former TGI Fridays space in the Rosemead Place shopping center, and a separate report says Darden Restaurants submitted a liquor license application for the site, which suggests the project is moving through local approval steps.
This is a corridor play. Moving into a vacated casual-dining box points to Olive Garden targeting established retail and restaurant areas instead of greenfield sites, and filling a former TGI Fridays spot may also reflect a wider casual-dining reshuffle, with the brand seeking traffic in a place that already has visibility and infrastructure.
Signals from investors and consumers are limited in the supplied sources. Still, the Rosemead filings and location announcement point to active unit-level investment and ongoing site development, while no funding, hiring, or earnings data was provided, so there is no added evidence here on broader financial performance or sentiment.
Frequently asked questions
Olive Garden is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, United States.
Olive Garden has 10001+ employees according to its company profile.
Olive Garden operates in the Restaurants sector. Public valuation figures are not always disclosed for private companies.