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We aspire to be a company that positively
affects our guests, employees, communi-
ties and business partners – quite simply,
to be a company that matters. With more
than 2,100 restaurants and 200,000
employees, our scope and scale enable
us to positively affect the economic, social
and environmental challenges facing our
communities and the world. Our efforts
are anchored in several core pillar areas
where we feel we can have the most impact.
They include:
• Darden Harvest Program: Hunger is
an issue in every community where we
do business. Our restaurants donate
wholesome, surplus food to local com-
munity food banks and soup kitchens
across the country. Since fiscal 2003,
we’ve donated more than 66 million
pounds of food to those in need.
• Good Neighbor Grants: We partner
with local community organizations to
help address priorities expressed by
our guests and employees. The corner-
stone of this effort is our Restaurant
Community Grants program where every
Darden restaurant can help award a
$1,000 grant to a non-profit organiza-
tion in its local community. In fiscal 2013,
we awarded $1.9 million to nearly 900
non-profits.
• Preservation of Natural Resources: We
are actively committed to sustainability –
starting with our own operations. We
have aggressive goals to reduce water
and electricity consumption in our
restaurants by 15 percent by fiscal 2015.
We’ve already exceeded our water goal
with a 17 percent reduction since making
the commitment and we’re well on our
way to meeting our energy goal with
a 12 percent reduction to date. Since
2008, we also expanded recycling, food
donations and grease recycling in an
effort to reach zero waste. We invested
significant time and resources into
seafood sustainability and empowered
10,000-plus restaurant employees
to identify new ways to improve the
sustainability performance of our
restaurants. Darden is also committed
to partnering with others, including
our suppliers, policymakers and non-
governmental organizations to find
collective solutions for sustainability,
and we have worked with the World
Bank, the New England Aquarium,
Clinton Global Initiative, the Sustain-
ability Consortium and many others.
Making sure we are transparent in
our sustainability efforts is key as well,
as demonstrated by our second Global
Reporting Initiative report and the
reporting we do via social media.
• Health and Wellness: Our company
is addressing one of the top health
challenges facing our society today –
obesity. Working with the Partnership
for a Healthier America, Darden has
committed to reducing the overall
calorie and sodium footprints of our
menus by 10 percent by fiscal 2016
and 20 percent by fiscal 2021, and
to enhance the nutrition credentials
of our children’s menus.
We Bring a Demonstrated
Commitment to Citizenship
15%
We seek to reduce our energy and
water use by 15 percent by 2015
and one day send zero waste
to landfills.
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Meeting Needs
In fiscal year 2013,
Darden’s 2,138 restaurants
contributed nearly 11 million pounds
of food to local food banks
across the United States
and Canada.