Darden’s restaurants includes niche brands including Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and LongHorn Steakhouse. All of these chains account for $8 billion a year revenue, it makes Darden Restaurants the largest full service restaurant operation in the world. Darden became a dominate industry force through a strategy of standardization and collaboration. At the operating level, every individual Darden restaurant is a just-in-time manufacturing plant by using standardized preparation and service methods. It allows each restaurant to create a wide range of products in minutes that are selected, consumed, and judged by consumers who showed up unannounced. Darden Restaurant faces rising food and energy cost which is an issue because they have to be careful