Darden Restaurants To Webcast Their 6th Annual Analyst Meeting

November 1, 2002

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov 1, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI) will be webcasting their 6th Annual Analyst Meeting to be held in Orlando on Friday, November 8. The sessions will run from 8:00 am until 11:30 am and resume at 1:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m., EST. A webcast of the presentations will be available over the Internet at http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=9598 . The archived webcast will also be available on the home page of the company's website (www.darden.com) through December 6, 2002.

As the largest casual dining restaurant company in the world, Darden Restaurants, Inc., owns and operates over 1,200 Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Bahama Breeze and Smokey Bones BBQ Sports Bar restaurants with annual sales of $4.4 billion. Darden is headquartered in Orlando, Fla.

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SOURCE Darden Restaurants, Inc.

Analysts, Matthew Stroud, +1-407-245-5550, or Media, Rick
Walsh, +1-407-245-5366, both of Darden Restaurants, Inc.
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