Red Lobster and Olive Garden
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on 9/1/09 11:04 pm
on 9/1/09 11:04 pm
The CEO of Red Lobster and Olive Garden
Source article: http://dallassouthblog.com/2008/01/10/the-story-of-clarence-otis-jr-darden-ceo-leads-red-lobster-and-olive-garden/
Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an Olive Garden or Red Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know that the CEO heading these large restaurant chains is a black man.
Clarence Otis Jr. is the CEO of Darden Restaurants Inc., the largest casual dining operator in the nation. The firm operates nearly 1,400 company-owned restaurants coast to coast serving 300 million meals annually. Darden employs 150,000 workers and has annual revenues of $6 billion.
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Otis moved to Los Angeles20when he was 6 years old. His father was a high school dropout who worked as a janitor. The family lived in Watts at the time of the 1965 riots. In the pos****ts period, Otis recalls being stopped and questioned by police several times a year because of the color of his skin.
A high school guidance counselor recommended him for a scholarship at Williams College, The highly selective liberal arts institution in Massachusetts. Otis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams and went on to earn a law degree at Stanford. Otis landed on Wall Street as a merger and acquisitions attorney for J.P. Morgan Securities. He joined Darden Restaurants in 1995 as corporate treasurer. He became CEO in 2004.
How many of us—or anyone else—knew this?! (But we heard all about Michael Vick, didn’t we?) Things have got to change.
Read more about Mr. Otis in this New York Times June 2009 interview: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/business/07corner.html
USA Today article, November 2006: http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-11-26-suite-darden_x.htm
Forbes profile: http://people.forbes.com/profile/clarence-otis/25167
Bio and video clip at PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wttw/ceoexchange/episodes/ceo_cotis.html
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After the Colonel (Sanders) straight-up stole Aunt Sadie's and Uncle June Bug's secret 11 herbs and spices...
After Captain Long John Silver straight-up pirated his way to a fish fortune...
And after that dayum dog made us all run for the border...
I figured a ninja didn't stand a mawfuggin chance!
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