The Olive Backyard is the most well-liked “Italian-American” restaurant chain in America. The USA is a rustic that loves its Italian food–every city has their Italian cafe or upscale pizza joint serving pasta dishes and wine by the glass. The Olive Backyard turned the king of Italian-American meals partly with sheer quantity. As of the top of 2010, The Olive Backyard was working greater than 700 eating places in America and Canada.

The primary Olive Backyard restaurant was opened in 1982 by the Normal Mills company. Company ventures into the restaurant enterprise weren’t precisely extraordinary within the early 80s, however not on the size that Normal Mills deliberate. In simply seven years, 200 extra Olive Backyard eating places opened. Normal Mill’s foray into meals would develop into the mannequin that the massive restaurant conglomerations would observe for the following thirty years.

The Olive Backyard’s menu has modified a lot of occasions up to now thirty years. Probably the most dramatic modifications have come in recent times. Olive Backyard eating places have been restyled, redesigned, and the complete focus of the menu has shifted. Olive Backyard eating places at the moment are styled after a farmhouse in Castellina, Italy, a particular constructing chosen for its “rustic” look. The menu took a large leap together with the design, with an entire makeover completed in cooperation with Italian chef Romana Neri, additionally the pinnacle of the Culinary Institute of Tuscany. The wine checklist was up to date, the meals is totally totally different, and the ambiance of the restaurant is extra stress-free, with comfortable mild and impartial colours.

A lot of individuals are drawn to The Olive Backyard for easy meals like soup, salad, and bread sticks–a in style menu combo. With a good number of wines by the glass and loads of appetizers and small plates, The Olive Backyard is a well-liked gathering spot for household and associates or worker lunches. The large modifications made to the menu did add a couple of {dollars} right here and there to menu objects, however the bar menu moved the other way, which means you will have a wider number of wines at a wider number of worth factors.

The Olive Backyard is now headquartered in Orlando, Florida, and the restaurant chain has modified arms a couple of occasions. Now owned by Darden Eating places, the Olive Backyard does greater than 100 million {dollars} of enterprise yearly. Olive Backyard eating places are in every single place, particularly as you journey on Interstate roads or close to large business areas like purchasing malls. With a plan within the works to develop their presence into airports and faculties, you will be seeing loads of Olive Backyard eating places within the years to come back.