OLIVE GARDEN HONORS AMERICA???S FIRST RESPONDERS WITH 15th YEAR OF LABOR DAY LUNCH DELIVERIES
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More than 800 restaurants nationwide to deliver and serve local community heroes
More than 800 Olive Garden restaurants nationwide will deliver and serve their local first responders a special ???thank you??? lunch for their ongoing, dedicated service to the community. This is the 15th consecutive year that Olive Garden has coordinated this nationwide effort, resulting in more than 10,000 meals served from 2002 to 2016.
Olive Garden team members arriving at the location and being greeted by first responders
Olive Garden team members serving lunch to first responders
Olive Garden Manager and recipient organization to discuss partnership
Call your local Olive Garden restaurant and ask to speak with a Manager for details, including delivery location and time. For other questions, please contact:
Jenni Izzo, (407) 864-5823, jenniizzo@costacg.com
??Vanessa Tostes, (407) 739-4532, vanessatostes@costacg.com
Olive Garden is the leading restaurant in the Italian dining segment with more than 800 restaurants, more than 96,000 employees and more than??$3.8 billion??in annual sales.??Olive Garden is a division of Darden Restaurants, Inc., (NYSE: DRI), which owns and operates more than 1,500 restaurants that generate over $6.8 billion in annual sales.??Headquartered in Orlando, Fla., and employing more than 150,000 people, Darden is recognized for a culture that rewards caring for and responding to people.??Olive Garden is committed to making a difference in the lives of others in the local community.??As part of this commitment, Olive Garden restaurants have donated more than 35 million pounds of food to local community food banks across the country.
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