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Founder of Red Lobster. Spouse. Mary Green. Children. 3. William Bristor Darden (November 17, 1918 – March 29, 1994) was an American businessman and the founder of the Red Lobster restaurant franchise. He is also the namesake of the multi-brand restaurant operator Darden Restaurants, which considers Darden to be its founder. [1]
Red Lobster Hospitality, LLC is an American casual dining restaurant chain headquartered in Orlando, Florida.The company has operations across most of the United States (including Puerto Rico and Guam) and Canada, as well as in China, Ecuador, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates; as of June 23, 2020, the company had 719 locations worldwide.
History. The company's former logo, used until 2009. William "Bill" Darden opened his first restaurant, The Green Frog, in Waycross, Georgia, in 1938 at age 19. He later founded the Red Lobster Inns of America and opened the first Red Lobster restaurant in Lakeland, Florida, in 1968. [3] Red Lobster, which grew quickly, formed the basis of the ...
General Mills quickly bought Red Lobster and in 1995 spun the chain off into a new company, Darden Restaurants, named after its founder. In 2014, Darden sold Red Lobster to Golden Gate Capital, a ...
Communities around the country are losing cheddar bay biscuits and all-you-can-eat seafood deals as troubled Red Lobster closes around 100 US restaurants, with up to 135 more closures looming ...
Red Lobster floundered this past year, ... Then 33, Adamolekun was already making history as one of the few Black CEOs to lead a major U.S. company and the first to head P.F. Chang’s.
Kelli Valade. Kelli Valade (born October 11, 1969) is an American businesswoman who was formerly the chief executive officer of Red Lobster. Previously, she was the CEO and president of Black Box Intelligence (formerly TDn2K) [1] (Transforming Data into Knowledge). She is the former brand president of Chili's Grill & Bar and former executive ...
In May, Adamolekun began visiting Red Lobsters around the U.S., snacking on crab legs, Maine lobster tail, and its famed Cheddar Bay biscuits, the Wall Street Journal reported. But Adamolekun’s ...