Olive Garden and Red Lobster at Richland Mall (Waco, Texas)

Another import from the the existing "Other Waco Roads" page at Carbon-izer (as of this writing the Internet Archive is partially down so don't expect that link at press time) comes two restaurants at Richland Mall...the Red Lobster at 5925 West Waco Drive and the Olive Garden at 5921 W. Waco Drive. More accurately, the Red Lobster started out as a China Coast, and both restaurants were owned by General Mills Restaurants Inc., the restaurant division of conglomerate General Mills. In 1995, General Mills Restaurants was spun off and renamed as Darden Restaurants and one of their first goals was to close the struggling China Coast chain. A few years later it was reopened as another concept of theirs, Red Lobster, which moved from 4900 Bosque Boulevard as that place was to be redeveloped for a new H-E-B. Despite Darden divesting Red Lobster in 2014 and its eventual bankruptcy filing, both restaurants still occupy pad spaces in front of Richland Mall.

You can see both restaurants here in Street View. I'll leave you with an article about the groundbreaking of both.