EXECUTION COPY AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER Dated as of August 16, 2007 among DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC. SURF & TURF MERGER CORP. and RARE HOSPITALITY INTERNATIONAL, INC.Agreement and Plan of Merger • August 17th, 2007 • Darden Restaurants Inc • Retail-eating places • Delaware
This AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (this “Agreement”), dated as of August 16, 2007, by and among Darden Restaurants, Inc., a Florida corporation (“Parent”), Surf & Turf Merger Corp., a Georgia corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and RARE Hospitality International Inc., a Georgia corporation (the “Company”).
