Olive Garden Is Still Extremely Cautious on Delivery
Photo Caption: How well do those breadsticks travel, anyways?
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Cautious isn't necessarily a bad approach, but delivery is a growing business for many competitors and it may be costing Olive Garden to be so slow to adopt.
Olive Garden isn't announcing any national delivery partnerships anytime soon.
According Eugene Lee, CEO of parent company Darden Restaurants, there are still "significant hurdles" to work out before Olive Garden will roll out delivery on a national scale. Lee said he's holding back for several reasons: the execution on delivery hasn't met the right standards yet, the path to sustainable incremental growth at s
