Infographic: How Darden Harvest Helps

Darden Harvest Program

Through Darden's partnership with Food Donation Connection, Darden’s 2,000 restaurants are able to donate surplus food to local food banks, Feeding America and other worthy charitable organizations throughout the country. Food Donation Connection provides an alternative to discarding surplus wholesome food by linking food service donors with surplus food to local hunger relief agencies. Given the growing need for hunger relief, food banks, governments and restaurant operators are rethinking those existing systems and trying to find a better way to redirect excess prepared food to hungry people rather than landfills. Since its inception, the Darden Harvest Program has distributed more than 60 million pounds of food.