Company
DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC $DRI
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Lobbying
21 filings, 2023 to 2026. Paid lobbying firms $1.3M.
Firms: Guidepoststrategies, LLC, Miller & Chevalier Chartered, Miller & Chevalier, Chtd, Penn Avenue Partners
Issues: Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Contacted: Senate, House Of Representatives, White House Office, Treasury, Dept Of, Internal Revenue Service (Irs), Labor, Dept Of (Dol)
Revolving door: 4 lobbyists held government posts
- Kate Beaulieu Guidepoststrategies, LLC · last filed 2026Legislative Aide, Senator David Vitter
- Michael Desmond Miller & Chevalier Chartered · Miller & Chevalier, Chtd · last filed 2026Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel
- Marc J Gerson Miller & Chevalier, Chtd · last filed 2025Houe Ways and Means Committee Majority Tax Counsel
- Timothy Farrell Hannegan Penn Avenue Partners · last filed 2024U.S. General Accounting Office
Former posts as each lobbyist listed them ("covered position") on the company's Senate LDA filings.
From the company's Senate LDA filings. Firm fees and in-house spend are reported on different filings, so they are shown apart. Lobbying is legal and common; it shows what the company paid to be heard on, not what it got.
PAC giving
No corporate PAC tied to this company in the FEC records we hold.
Contracts ending in the next 18 months
None in the contracts we hold for this company.
Amount: obligated to date. From the contracts in HillSignal's records tied to this ticker; the full list of contracts ending across government is on Recompetes.
Insider trades
- Martin Melvin John Group PresidentSold $448K · Oct 6, 2026
- Wilkerson John W. President, Olive GardenSold $2.6M · Aug 5, 2026
Open-market buys and sells from SEC Form 4 filings; grants and option exercises left out, and trades whose filed price failed our market check. A 10b5-1 plan is a trading schedule set in advance, so those sells say little about the insider's view. The plan box is on filings from April 2023 on.