11.   General Mills launches Darden into an increasingly competitive industry and a stock market that has ruthlessly penalized restaurant companies that fall short of expectations, however slightly.

12.   He sees restaurant companies do it all the time.

13.   Industry executives said they eagerly awaited the inevitable Pepsico marketing hoopla over the naming of the new, yet-untitled restaurant company.

14.   Kentucky Fried Chicken is a subsidiary of PepsiCo, the Purchase, New York-based soft-drinks and restaurant company.

15.   Many restaurant companies continue to be hurt by higher labor costs.

16.   Norman Brinker will step down as chief executive of the restaurant company that bears his name.

17.   Not as a chicken chain, or even a restaurant company, but as a multifaceted conglomerate offering a full menu of business opportunities for franchisees.

18.   Now the restaurant company has been spun off to stockholders and the joint ventures are contributing to profits, Sanger said.

19.   Others simply found it hard to build business as they were competing against a crowd of other, newly public restaurant companies.

20.   Owen Dean, a lawyer for the U.S. restaurant company, said he expects the company to appeal the decision.