Darden's quiet AI strategy is buy-vs-build done right
Five days after Darden's Q3 print, the operator's read is that Cardenas and Vennam are running measured AI as the counterweight to measured retention. The trades called it AI-light. The stack — and the LongHorn culinary recertification underneath it — says otherwise.
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