Huh? Color of Change is an advocacy group for Blacks co-founded by the commie Van Jones. They claim Darden is discriminating on Black servers for not offering a clear path from their low fare restaurants (Red Lobster & Olive Garden) to their high brow restaurant, Capital Grille.
ColorOfChange | Tell Darden: No more segregated restaurants
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Black applicants are rarely hired at the Capital Grille, the only place within the Darden Restaurants company where workers can earn a living wage. And there’s no clear pipeline for workers to get from jobs at Red Lobster and Olive Garden (other brands owned by Darden) to that higher-paid work.
Restaurants that depend on African-American patrons shouldn't engage in hiring and promotions practices that discriminate against us. Please join us in demanding that Darden institute a promotions system that allows Black workers to compete for jobs as servers, bartenders and chefs at the company’s fine-dining restaurants.
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Yet the CEO of Darden is Black
The story of Clarence Otis Jr. – Darden CEO leads Red Lobster and Olive Garden | ShawnPWilliams.com
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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 Angeles when he was 6 years old. His father was a high school dropout who worked as a janitor.
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The story of Clarence Otis Jr. – Darden CEO leads Red Lobster and Olive Garden | ShawnPWilliams.com
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