Darden Concepts, Inc. doing business as Yard House, is an American restaurant chain, with 80+ locations across the United States.[2] Yard House was purchased by Darden Restaurants in 2012 for $585 million and now operates out of Orlando, Florida.[3][4]
History
Yard House was founded in 1996 in Long Beach, California, by Steele Platt, Tom Yelenick, William Wollrab and Steve Reynolds.[5] The Yard House began its East Coast expansion in 2010, with a restaurant in the Legacy Place lifestyle center in the Boston suburb of Dedham.[6]