In 1938, at the age of the 19, the eventual founder of Red Lobster Bill Darden opened a diner named the Green Frog and defied the laws of the southern state Georgia by refusing to segregate customers based on race.
The Biography of Red Lobster Founder Bill Darden William B. Darden was born in 1919, which meant that he was too young to enjoy the prosperity of the “Roaring Twenties,” but just the right age to be emotionally scarred by the economic ravages of the Great Depression. This hit his native South especially hard. Nevertheless, […]