ORLANDO, Fla., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI - News) will be presenting at Wachovia Securities' Twelfth Annual Nantucket Conference to be held in Nantucket, MA on Friday, June 28, 2002 at 9:00 am Eastern Time. An audio webcast of the presentation will be available over the Internet at https://www.twst.com/econf/mm/fu8/dri.html . The webcast will be available for a period 30 days. The archived webcast will also be available on the home page of the company's website (www.darden.com) through July 5, 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, FL.