Outsourcing Offshore at Darden

Darden Restaurants owns all of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants, which amounts to over 1,700 food establishments. Olive Garden specializes in serving Italian food and Red Lobster serves mainly seafood and fish. They actually own four other chains located throughout the United States, such as: The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Longhorn Steakhouse, and Seasons 52 .To keep themselves successful the company needs to outsource work when the opportunity strikes to reduce their overall labor costs. Darden’s sources of seafood are from sustainable wild fisheries or aqua culture farms, harvested in ways that promote responsible fishing and help protect the surrounding ecosystem. All of Darden’s suppliers must adhere to their rigid food standards, which are typically stricter than the FDA, to continue doing business with them. Darden is one of the largest seafood purchasers. They pride themselves with the diversity of the employees and the company they purchase their supplies from. There are many sources in which a restaurant, like Darden, can find the opportunity to outsource some labor, such as: accounting/finance, seafood catching and cleaning, internet marketing, transportation/logistics, legal processes, cleaning, and bulk food preparation into even portions. There can be many supply-chain issues when working with 35 different countries. If there isn’t proper communication throughout the organization and their suppliers Darden could find they have too much or too little food to supply their establishments. If Darden fails to properly inspect areas of their establishments and their food they could begin to have quality issues throughout the organization. The different time zones they are working with could increase the chance of errors on arrival times of supplies. Darden may also run into problems with different cultures and work performance in all the different countries. After examining the automobile

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