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Darden Restaurants, Inc. is the largest publicly held casual dining restaurant
company in the world1, and served over 350 million meals in fiscal 2007. As of
May 27, 2007, we operated through subsidiaries 1,397 restaurants in the United
States and Canada. In the United States, we operated 1,362 restaurants in 49
states (the exception being Alaska), including 651 Red Lobster ®, 608 Olive
Garden®, 23 Bahama Breeze®, 73 Smokey Bones Barbeque & Grill ® and seven Seasons
52® restaurants. In Canada, we operated 35 restaurants, including 29 Red Lobster
and six Olive Garden restaurants. Through subsidiaries, we own and operate all
of our restaurants in the United States and Canada. None of our restaurants in
the U.S. or Canada are franchised. Of our 1,397 restaurants open on May 27,
2007, 842 were located on owned sites and 555 were located on leased sites.