ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Darden Restaurants, Inc.
(NYSE: DRI) will be presenting at the Wachovia Securities 2008 Consumer Growth
Conference to be held in New York City, NY. There will be an on-line
simulcast of the Company's presentation which begins at 10:45 am (Eastern) on
Tuesday, October 14, 2008, available at the Company's website,
www.darden.com . An audio-only webcast of the Company's presentation will be
also available over the Internet at (Due to length of URL, please cut and
paste into browser.)
http://www.wew.com/webcast/wa52/register.aspz?conf=wa52&page=index&url=htpp%3a
//www.wsw.com/webcast/wa52 .
The archived webcast will also be available on the home page of the
company's website ( www.darden.com ) through October 21, 2008.
Darden Restaurants, Inc., (NYSE: DRI) headquartered in Orlando, Fla., is
the world's largest full-service restaurant company with almost $6.7 billion
in annual sales and approximately 180,000 employees. The Company owns and
operates over 1,700 restaurants including Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn
Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52. For more
information, please visit www.Darden.com .