Olive Garden [merged threads]
Mar 11, 2012 | 11:47 am
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Good luck to the little guy trying to stay in business by offering high quality when the giants move in. It can be done but...
It's why, for example, we patronize this joint when we're near SEA, although they're now up to three operations and may eventually become another Olive Garden.
Mar 11, 2012 | 10:02 pm
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If you're in the restaurant business as an independent, as couple of my in-laws have been, it's certainly a sign of the times.
Good luck to the little guy trying to stay in business by offering high quality when the giants move in. It can be done but...
It's why, for example, we patronize this joint when we're near SEA, although they're now up to three operations and may eventually become another Olive Garden.
Good luck to the little guy trying to stay in business by offering high quality when the giants move in. It can be done but...
It's why, for example, we patronize this joint when we're near SEA, although they're now up to three operations and may eventually become another Olive Garden.
But perhaps being a tourist going down International Avenue if in Orlando, one tends to get drawn into the chain restaurant if a bunch of restaurants are offering pretty much same.
Mar 15, 2012 | 12:12 pm
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This right here is the key. I live in a city with about 100,000 people. We have no decent city-like restaurants. We have two "fine dining" places that just aren't. But people here think eating at those places is "like you are eating in New York". I don't particularly like going to Olive Garden but I go there here since the food isn't bad, the service is good, and the experience is consistent. It's all about what you have for comparison.
Mar 15, 2012 | 12:18 pm
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This right here is the key. I live in a city with about 100,000 people. We have no decent city-like restaurants. We have two "fine dining" places that just aren't. But people here think eating at those places is "like you are eating in New York". I don't particularly like going to Olive Garden but I go there here since the food isn't bad, the service is good, and the experience is consistent. It's all about what you have for comparison.
Mar 15, 2012 | 12:29 pm
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This right here is the key. I live in a city with about 100,000 people. We have no decent city-like restaurants. We have two "fine dining" places that just aren't. But people here think eating at those places is "like you are eating in New York". I don't particularly like going to Olive Garden but I go there here since the food isn't bad, the service is good, and the experience is consistent. It's all about what you have for comparison.
Mar 15, 2012 | 4:24 pm
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I've tried Olive Garden restaurants in a handful of places (in a handful of different states) and found them to be consistently over-salted, to a ridiculous degree. Keeps their drink sales going, I suppose. I generally avoid them when given the choice.
Mar 15, 2012 | 10:58 pm
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There is only one Olive Garden in Calgary a city of over a million.. and the place is always packed out. To avoid line ups, you pretty much have to show up 4 pm or 9 pm in the day. Lunch is packed as well.
Nov 9, 2014 | 3:04 am
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Olive garden
Olive Garden purposefully neglects salt to avoid invalidating the extended warranty agreement it has with the manufacturer of its cooking pots.
Apparently, there is an official Olive Garden policy that dictates the number of breadsticks provided at the start of each meal.Starboard claims that $5 million is wasted annually on breadsticks that go uneaten when a server doesnt follow the formula and unnecessarily serves too many.
This and other fascinating facts about the hedge-fund takeover of the parents company of Olive Garden.
https://medium.com/the-spaghetti-inc...d-1abc09cfc86a
Apparently, there is an official Olive Garden policy that dictates the number of breadsticks provided at the start of each meal.Starboard claims that $5 million is wasted annually on breadsticks that go uneaten when a server doesnt follow the formula and unnecessarily serves too many.
This and other fascinating facts about the hedge-fund takeover of the parents company of Olive Garden.
https://medium.com/the-spaghetti-inc...d-1abc09cfc86a
Nov 9, 2014 | 10:02 am
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I have to eat at Olive Garden tonight and I'm not looking forward to it. There are so many better choices in Italian restaurants in the area that offer better food and a better value. I haven't been to Olive Garden in a long time and was hoping someone here could give a recommendation on what items might not be too bad.
Aug 25, 2015 | 7:47 pm
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Lemon Cream Cake.
I've sworn off going to Olive Garden because it's turned into Chuck E Cheese with dozens of unruly children running amok. But I do miss the lemon cream cake.
I've sworn off going to Olive Garden because it's turned into Chuck E Cheese with dozens of unruly children running amok. But I do miss the lemon cream cake.
Aug 26, 2015 | 5:59 am
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