2 wildly popular restaurant chains opening 45 more locations

More Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants are in the works.

Fox Business reports Darden Restaurants, the parent company of the two chains, plans to open 40 to 45 restaurants. Darden CFO Rajesh Vennam made the announcement during Darden’s fourth-quarter earnings call.

Darden operated over 930 Olive Garden locations as of late May, and more than 590 LongHorn Steakhouse locations.

Darden recently increased the menu prices at Olive Garden. The company raised the Italian restaurant chain’s prices by 1 % in 2023. Last year, Darden said it planned to continue the increase by an average of 2% to 3%.

Fox Business reports Olive Garden had $5.2 billion in sales for fiscal 2025, marking a 2.8% increase from the prior year. Longhorn’s annual sales rose by 7.8% to $3.03 billion.

Darden has over 2,100 company-owned restaurants across all its brands at the end of fiscal 2025. Restaurants under the Darden portfolio include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Ruth’s Chris, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille

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