Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Greetings, and welcome to the Darden Restaurant's Q2 fiscal year 2026 earnings conference call and webcast. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. You may be placed into question queue at any time by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad, and we ask you to please ask one question and one follow-up to return to the queue. If anyone should require operator assistance, please press star 0. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to Courtney Aquila, Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations. Courtney, please go ahead. Thank you, Kevin. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for participating on today's call. Joining me are Rick Cardenas, Darden's President and CEO, and Raj Vinam, CFO. As a reminder, comments made during this call will include forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations and projections. Those risks are described in the company's press release, which was distributed this morning, and in the filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We are simultaneously broadcasting a presentation during this call, which is available on the Financials tab in the Investors section of our website at Darden.com. Today's discussion and presentation includes certain non-GAAP measurements and reconciliations of these measurements are included in the presentation. Looking ahead, we plan to release fiscal 2026 third quarter earnings on Thursday, March 19th, before the market opens, followed by a conference call. During today's call, all references to ...