Darden Restaurants To Present At The Suntrust Robinson Humphrey 31st Annual Institutional Conference

April 12, 2002

ORLANDO, Fla., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Darden Restaurants, Inc. will be presenting at the SunTrust Robinson Humphrey 31st Annual Institutional Conference to be held in Atlanta on Monday, April 15, 2002 at 10:40 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. An audio webcast of the presentation will be available over the Internet at http://www.twst.com/econf/mm/strh1/dri.html. The archived webcast will also be available on the home page of the company's website (www.darden.com) through Monday, April 22, 2002.

As the largest casual dining restaurant company in the world, Darden Restaurants, Inc., owns and operates over 1,100 Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Bahama Breeze and Smokey Bones BBQ Sports Bar restaurants with annual sales of over $4 billion. Darden is headquartered in Orlando, FL.