Bahama Breeze comes off Darden’s menu
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:07.6 | It's always good to be with you. Today is Wednesday, February 4th. I'm Julie Morgan. |
| 0:14.2 | This first story has been trending. Darden Restaurants announces that it is closing Bahama Breeze. |
| 0:20.6 | Fourteen of the restaurants will permanently close and the other 14 will convert into other |
| 0:26.0 | concepts within the Darden portfolio. |
| 0:28.9 | The company does not anticipate that the closures will have a material impact on its |
| 0:33.3 | overall financial results. |
| 0:35.3 | The units slated for closure are expected to remain open through early |
| 0:39.0 | April, while the conversions will roll out over the next year to year and a half, with affected |
| 0:44.7 | restaurants operating until temporary shutdowns are needed to complete the remodels. |
| 0:50.3 | Darden did not disclose which brands will replace the converted Bahama Breeze locations. |
| 0:55.9 | Bahama Breeze was created by Darden in the mid-1990s as a Caribbean-themed casual dining concept, |
| 1:02.7 | with the first restaurant opening in 1996 on Orlando's International Drive. |
| 1:08.2 | DRI closed Tuesday nearly 2.3% in the green. AMD is down 7.3% in pre-market action, |
| 1:17.8 | even after reporting fourth quarter results and guidance that were well above Wall Street's |
| 1:23.0 | forecast. For the period ending December 27th, AMD earned an adjusted $1.53 per share, as revenue rose 34% |
| 1:32.9 | year-over-year to $10.27 billion. Analysts expected the company to earn $1.32 on revenues of $9.65 billion |
| 1:42.1 | for the entire quarter. Data Center revenue rose 39% year over year, |
| 1:48.0 | to $5.4 billion, which is higher than the $4.97 billion they were expecting. Alex King of Cestrian |
| 1:55.9 | Capital Research, the investing group leader for growth investor pro, said the results were rock solid. He said the stock |
| 2:03.5 | is down and he would speculate that it's because revenue growth decelerated and the guide is for |
| 2:09.2 | further deceleration and because the semiconductor sector is very extended and is probably ripe for |
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