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Olive Garden

1000 Darden Center Dr, Orlando, FL 32837-4032

olivegarden.com
Track This Company Profile reviewed October 2026

Ownership Hierarchy

40 Ultimate Parent
Darden Restaurants 9 concepts

Approximately 95-100% of the Olive Garden restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.

Enterprise Snapshot
(US & CAN)

Public profile metrics.

~975 Restaurant locations
~$5.5B System sales (US & CAN)
33+ C-suite connections

Cuisines

1 of 1 shown
Italian

States & Provinces

3 of 54 shown
AB AK AL View All

Summary

Olive Garden began in Orlando, Florida, in 1982 and remains headquartered there. The company operates a single casual/family Italian concept. Its cuisine is Italian. Menus center on pasta, soups, salads, entrées and family-style dining for lunch and dinner. Darden Restaurants is the parent company, making Olive Garden a child company within Darden’s multi-brand portfolio. The system has locations across the United States and Canada. Almost all restaurants are company-operated, although selected locations may use franchise arrangements. A typical Olive Garden has about 250 seats and occupies approximately 7,000 square feet. The concept generally uses a large full-service dining-room format. Restaurant size, seating and layout can vary by market, building design and nontraditional setting.

Recent Olive Garden Development Activity

RestaurantPipeline activity

Selected location-development activity by weekly cut

A weekly cut is a selected portion of RestaurantPipeline’s broader location-development research. This profile may show selected examples when the indexed company appears in that week’s research.

Weekly RestaurantPipeline activity cut

October 31, 2026

October Week 5

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Selected new opening record
Olive Garden: Rexburg, Idaho, Madison County

590 Mikan Dr · Rexburg, ID 83440

Projected openingNovember 9, 2026
SourceRegional news publication

Weekly RestaurantPipeline activity cut

October 17, 2026

October Week 3

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Location
Olive Garden: Oregon, Ohio, Lucas County

2810 Navarre Ave · Oregon, OH 43616

Projected openingNovember 9, 2026
SourceRegional news publication

Weekly RestaurantPipeline activity cut

October 9, 2026

October Week 2

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Location
Olive Garden: Hesperia, California, San Bernardino County

9640 Cataba Rd · Hesperia, CA 92345

Projected openingWinter 2027
SourceAlcohol-license filing

Additional examples may be added
Selected records from later weekly cuts may appear here; not every matching record will be shown.

The broader RestaurantPipeline weekly research file also includes companies outside the Restaurant Enterprise Index. The records shown here are selected examples, not a complete record of the company’s location development or every matching weekly record. Projected timing reflects findings at the dated research cut and may change as permitting, construction and operator schedules move.

Olive Garden Growth History

Restaurant Vector™

Olive Garden Vector Profile

RestaurantData’s selected archived development trail for Olive Garden begins with an April 1998 report in Westminster, Maryland. The record follows multi-state activity through 2014, with Texas and California prominent in the 2015–2019 window. Later opening-year research and development reports extend the history into 2026.

For sales teams and investors, these historical windows help identify markets for closer review, compare current development with earlier activity and place individual locations within the brand’s longer expansion history.

Research begins April 1998. Historical U.S. activity view · Current restaurant footprint appears in the Enterprise Snapshot.

Four selected historical windows

  • 1998–2004

    Early multi-state trail

    50+ opening signals

    25+ states with signals

  • 2005–2014

    Broader development trail

    130+ opening signals

    35+ states with signals

  • 2015–2019

    Texas and California activity

    50+ opening signals

    15+ states with signals

  • 2020–2026

    Recent multi-state activity

    130+ opening signals

    35+ states with signals

Olive Garden’s development arc

Selected opening signals and researched location history, 1998–2026.

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Olive Garden selected restaurant development history, 1998–2026An illustrative cumulative arc of selected, deduplicated restaurant-address evidence. The archived development report trail is solid through 2014. A dotted continuation includes later development reports and researched opening years. Four windows summarize 50 or more selected opening signals across 25 or more states in 1998–2004, 130 or more selected opening signals across 35 or more states in 2005–2014, 50 or more selected opening signals across 15 or more states in 2015–2019, 130 or more selected opening signals across 35 or more states in 2020–2026. The trail includes announced development. The arc has no operating-unit scale and does not measure net growth. Each profile uses its own illustrative vertical scale. A flat segment means no additional dated evidence was included for that year. Shaded markers identify the labeled historical periods; marker widths do not measure period duration.VECTOR · NEW-OPENING EVIDENCESHADED · SELECTED PERIODS1998: annual position in the selected research trail1999: annual position in the selected research trail2000: annual position in the selected research trail2001: annual position in the selected research trail2002: annual position in the selected research trail2003: annual position in the selected research trail2004: annual position in the selected research trail2005: annual position in the selected research trail2006: annual position in the selected research trail2007: annual position in the selected research trail2008: annual position in the selected research trail2009: annual position in the selected research trail2010: annual position in the selected research trail2011: annual position in the selected research trail2012: annual position in the selected research trail2013: annual position in the selected research trail2014: annual position in the selected research trail2015: annual position in the selected research trail2016: annual position in the selected research trail2017: annual position in the selected research trail2018: annual position in the selected research trail2019: annual position in the selected research trail2020: annual position in the selected research trail2021: annual position in the selected research trail2022: annual position in the selected research trail2023: annual position in the selected research trail2024: annual position in the selected research trail2025: annual position in the selected research trail2026: annual position in the selected research trail130+ selected opening signals35+ states · 2005–2014Location history into 2026Recent arc in development199820042009201420202026Location evidence year →50+ signals25+ statesEarly multi-statetrail1998–2004130+ signals35+ statesBroaderdevelopment trail2005–201450+ signals15+ statesTexas andCalifornia activity2015–2019130+ signals35+ statesRecent multi-stateactivity2020–2026Illustrative research arc · Shaded markers identify labeled periods · No operating-unit scale
Archived development reportsDevelopment reports + opening-year researchSelected activity windows
The solid segment follows archived development reports through 2014. The dotted continuation adds researched opening years to later reports. Archived reports continue within the dotted segment. Each restaurant address is counted once at its earliest included evidence year.

Vector readout: The archived record spans 25+ states in 1998–2004 and 35+ states in 2005–2014. Texas and California feature prominently in the 2015–2019 window and in the combined 2020–2026 research. The location examples connect Maryland and Minnesota research to later records in Colorado, California, Nevada and Texas.

Recent arc in development. The 2020–2026 window contains 130+ selected opening signals across 35+ states. Later reports include announced development; 2026 is a partial year.

RestaurantData source trail: Archived reports draw on state and legal filings, building permits and regional news. Atlas by RestaurantData™ contributes researched opening-year attributes to the later segment. A development report year and an opening year can differ for the same location.

Restaurant location examples along the expansion arc

  • 1998
    Development report year

    Olive Garden

    500 Gorsuch Rd
    Westminster, MD 21157
    Carroll County
  • 2002
    Development report year

    Olive Garden

    380 17th Ave Nw
    Rochester, MN 55901
    Olmsted County
  • 2014
    Development report year

    Olive Garden

    14175 W Colfax Ave
    Lakewood, CO 80401
    Jefferson County
  • 2019
    Researched opening year

    Olive Garden

    1301 W Renaissance Pkwy
    Rialto, CA 92376
    San Bernardino County
  • 2025
    Researched opening year

    Olive Garden

    316 W Lake Mead Pkwy
    Henderson, NV 89015
    Clark County
  • 2026
    Development report year

    Olive Garden

    311 N Clark Rd
    Cedar Hill, TX 75104
    Dallas County
6 selected restaurant locations.

Contact RestaurantData for full location and development histories.

Source: RestaurantData U.S. restaurant-location research. Corporate, regional and franchisee headquarters are excluded. The first two windows use archived development records; later windows combine development and opening-year research, counting each address once at its earliest included dated evidence. Signal and state bands are rounded down. They do not represent complete opening totals, currently operating units or net growth.

The latest included development report is October Week 4, 2026. The six examples use their stated date basis. Development reports can precede opening, including projects assigned future opening years. Verification dates are not opening dates, and a historical record does not establish present operating status.

Source availability varies across jurisdictions and years. Wider research coverage in the dotted segment should be considered when comparing periods. The curve uses an illustrative vertical scale specific to this profile. Unresolved opening years are not used to assign opening dates; gaps do not by themselves establish a pause or contraction.

Read the Restaurant Vector™ overview for the research method and source definitions.

Historical reference: Olive Garden in the 2018 Top 300 Restaurant Concepts report on RestaurantChains.net. The ranking provides a separate company-level snapshot from the historical research period.

For additional historical addresses and source details, see the Olive Garden location archive on RestaurantChains.net.

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