---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000940944-24-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRI"
cik: "0000940944"
company_name: "DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T03:14:14.415634+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Darden appoints Todd Burrowes to President, Business Development effective May 27, 2024

## Summary
- Todd A. Burrowes, currently President of LongHorn Steakhouse, will become President, Business Development on May 27, 2024.
- Burrowes will no longer serve as President, LongHorn Steakhouse upon assuming the new role.
- The Board of Directors approved the appointment on April 2, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000940944-24-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRI
- cik: 0000940944
- company_name: DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094424000019/0000940944-24-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094424000019/dri-20240402.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940944-24-000019
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940944-24-000019.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940944-24-000019.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Todd A. Burrowes was appointed as President, Business Development at DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President, Business Development
  source text: On April 2, 2024, the Board of Directors of Darden Restaurants, Inc. (the Company) approved the appointment of Todd A. Burrowes, currently the Company’s President, LongHorn Steakhouse, to the office of President, Business Development effective May 27, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094424000019/0000940944-24-000019-index.htm

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