- Olive Garden is a unit of General Mills.
- The first Olive Garden was opened December 13, 1982
- In just 7 years there were 145 Olive Garden's that had been opened
- Olive Garden eventually became the largest chain of Italian based foods in the U.S
- In 2010 alone Olive Garden generated 3.3 billion dollars
- Olive Garden launched a new logo as of July 9, 2014
- As of 2013 there are over 800 Olive Garden's globally