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Contents
BusinessDescription
Operating Company Overview 2 Letter to Shareholders 4 Winning Combinations 8
Community Responsibility 14 Directors and Ocers 16 Financial Review 17
Shareholder Information inside back cover
Darden Restaurants, Inc. is the largest publicly
traded casual dining restaurant company
in the world, based on market share and
revenues from company-owned restaurants.
In scal 2007, we served more than 325 million
meals at 1,397 restaurants in 49 states and
Canada. Our four distinct restaurant concepts
together generated annual sales of more than
$5.5 billion. Red Lobster® and Olive Garden®,
our agship brands, are the market-share
leaders in their casual dining segments. Each
produced sales of at least $2.6 billion annually,
making Darden the only casual dining restau-
rant company with two restaurant concepts
of this scale. Our emerging brands are Bahama
Breeze® and Seasons 52®. Based in Orlando,
Florida, we employ more than 156,000 people,
and our Company trades on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol DRI.