Olive Garden [merged threads]
Nov 1, 2018, 8:13 pm
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I'm pretty amused to find this thread. I travel throughout the US these days for meetings and I judge how civilized a town is by whether I can find an Olive Garden there :-) I've been to about 40 or 50 of them in different cities / towns. It's a running joke on facebook when I check in at one of them. My Italian friends yell in Italian (I'm assuming its cursing) and then some other friends simply are envious. They left Ontario (Canada) a number of years ago; couldn't make any money competing against the local firms it seems. I wish they'd come back we used to have fun going there in my late teens and early twenties with friends.
I get there's better quality food out there, but the tour of Italy does it for me with a couple breadsticks. Can't usually even eat it all.
I get there's better quality food out there, but the tour of Italy does it for me with a couple breadsticks. Can't usually even eat it all.
Nov 2, 2018, 1:19 pm
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Nov 2, 2018, 10:13 pm
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Aug 13, 2019, 12:26 pm
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For the first time ever. Olive Garden Lifetime Pasta Pass
This Thursday Olive Garden will once again offer their two month unlimited pass pass for $100. 24,000 will be available. But, the first 50 people who buy a pass will have the option to upgrade it to a lifetime pass for an additional $400.
I wish they would offer a soup and salad pass. That's all I ever order when I am forced to eat there.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/yo..._content=wkmg6
I wish they would offer a soup and salad pass. That's all I ever order when I am forced to eat there.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/yo..._content=wkmg6
Aug 13, 2019, 12:44 pm
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I don't get the point of this stuff when gratuity is excluded.
Similar to how "free delivery" excludes tip. So it's not really free.
I'll never forget that one faux-luxury hotel I stayed in where the valet parking was described to me as free "and they work on tips." Gee, thanks?
Similar to how "free delivery" excludes tip. So it's not really free.
I'll never forget that one faux-luxury hotel I stayed in where the valet parking was described to me as free "and they work on tips." Gee, thanks?
Aug 13, 2019, 1:26 pm
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While this thread is acceptable in OMNI, we are going to move it to Dining Buzz where there is an existing thread on the topic.
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Aug 13, 2019, 1:30 pm
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Aug 13, 2019, 1:46 pm
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Hey I've been there many times. Their salad and soups are very good. However my post was targeted most likely at someone who will not be eating the two aforementioned food categories and will be eating bowl after endless bowl of lasagna with sausages. lol
Aug 13, 2019, 2:15 pm
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Aug 13, 2019, 5:14 pm
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Aug 13, 2019, 5:15 pm
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Not a big fan of any of the pasts I've had there, they tend to cook it much more than I cook pasta.
Aug 13, 2019, 5:41 pm
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Endless bowl of lasagna with sausages? I don’t think you’ve eaten at Olive Garden recently.
Aug 13, 2019, 5:43 pm
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I'm honestly not sure why chain restaurants constantly overcook pasta. Is there a very short window between perfectly cooked and overcooked? Even if so, you'd imagine they have it down to a science.
Aug 13, 2019, 7:07 pm
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I think there are a lot of Americans who think overcooked pasta is cooked correctly.