Is Unlimited Soup, Salad and Breadsticks the Key to Quarterly Growth?

How Olive Garden keeps serving up fresh, hot earnings

An order of breadsticks from a Darden Restaurants Inc. Olive Garden.

Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

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On What'd You Miss this Week, Scarlet Fu, Joe Weisenthal, Caroline Hyde, and Romaine Bostick spoke with Peter Rawlinson, Chief Technology Officer at Lucid Motors, about their plan to take on Elon Musk. The electric vehicle company had recently been in dire financial straits, but received a lifeline this week. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund signed an agreement to invest over a billion dollars in the firm. Rawlinson explained how the funding would get their first model on the road in two years, and why they would be "the world's first true luxury EV." The distinction comes down to the interior, according to Rawlinson.

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