Darden Restaurants

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI) is a multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Orlando, Florida, USA. The firm owns several casual dining restaurant chains, most notably Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, and Red Lobster. Darden owns and operates 1,800 restaurant locations throughout North America and has more than 180,000 employees, making it the largest full-service casual dining company in the world by number of stores. Darden does not franchise its restaurants in the United States, but many of its international locations are not under corporate control.

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Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
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  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's July 31, 2012 filing.
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  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $529,021
    Total Spent:
    $670,544
    Cash on Hand:
    $45,626
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers through June 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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  • Top PAC Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for Darden Restaurants Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$2,060,000 Spent
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covers through Q2, 2012

Lobbying On Behalf of Darden Restaurants

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Trammell & Co $300,000
    Urban Swirski & Assoc $120,000
    Vpr Assoc $50,000
    Miller & Chevalier $50,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Taxes,
    • Health Issues,
    • Agriculture,
    • Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
    • Food Industry,
    • Immigration,
    • Finance,
    • Environment & Superfund,
    • Insurance,
    • Marine, Boats & Fisheries
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.1265 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.
    S.687 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.
    S.496 A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act to repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and grading of catfish.
    H.R.2164 Legal Workforce Act
    S.1196 Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act
    H.R.3729 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend and expand the charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory.
    H.R.2082 Work Opportunity Credit Improvements Act
    H.R.1081 Consumers Payment System Protection Act
    S.166 Good Samaritan Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Extension Act of 2011
    S.575 Debit Interchange Fee Study Act of 2011
View all lobbying data for Darden Restaurants Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

3 Mentions; 2 Submissions
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "Darden Restaurants" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Documents Submitted by the Organization
    • Submissions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 2 FDA Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments 2011
    • Toggle 1 NLRB Proposed rule amending representation-case procedures 2011
  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 2 FDA Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments 2011
    • Toggle 1 NLRB Proposed rule amending representation-case procedures 2011
    • Toggle 1 FDA Initiate Rulemaking Procedures to Reduce Human Exposure to Mercury Levels From Commercial Fish Sold in the U.S Particularly for Children, Women Childbearing Age, Pregnant and Nursing Women 2011