NEW YORK (AP) — It’s time for Olive Garden’s parent company Darden Restaurants to consider looking for a new CEO, an activist investor said Wednesday.

Barington Capital Group said it sent a letter to the independent directors on Darden’s board saying it was concerned by the company’s “rapidly deteriorating financial performance” under chief executive Clarence Otis.

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