Fayetteville Planners Approve Olive Garden
by January 21, 2002 12:00 am 63 views
The Fayetteville Planning Commission on Jan. 14 approved a large-scale development for an Olive Garden restaurant in the city’s Steel Crossing area (also known as CMN Business Park II).
As we mentioned in this column on Dec. 28, Darden Restaurants Inc. of Orlando, Fla., submitted the large-scale development plan Dec. 10. Olive Garden is a casual Italian chain of restaurants.
The proposed restaurant will be located on the east side of Mall Avenue near the intersection with Van Asche Drive. The restaurant will have 40 to 48 parking spaces.
Milholland Co. of Fayetteville is the engineer for the project.
Darden is the largest casual dining restaurant company in the world. It operates more than 1,100 Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze and Smokey Bones restaurants in North America and employs more than 122,000 people.
Darden had $4 billion in sales for the fiscal year that ended May 27. The company had $197 million in net earnings after taxes for the same year.