Olive Garden is a chain of an ‘Italien’ restaurant. While their garlic bread is delicious I find that literally, every other experience with their menu is the exact opposite.
After going to little Italy in NYC, id say im the Alan Richman of Italian food. He’s a famous food critic. Now I’ve eaten at Olive Garden plenty of times, but I have some moments that stick out to me. A little back story before hand. My family and I don’t usually go out to eat but when we do its something simple and easy. Usually, in the case that we do go out to eat its to celebrate a little something. For example, Good grade, good sports game, or family gathering. Let the storytime begin. . .
Around 9th-grade 2nd quarter my family and I decided to go out for my approved of grades. Olive Garden wasn’t my choice but I have been once before, so there were high hopes. We arrived and got seated. First wrong in this restaurant was that they were obviously short staffed. We waited almost 30 minutes for our drinks. My mom was already fed up, but we decided to stay for the heck of it. At this point we are about to order. This waiter, the poor guy, was working so many tables but he still didn’t have the need to be as rude as he was. While everyone had their choice of food already, I was a bit indecisive about what I wanted. By the time it was my turn I really had no clue. When he asked me for the third time I didn’t respond, and his response was so harsh. Being so rushed I picked the simplest thing. Mac and Cheese. He made a snarky comment but I don’t really remember what he said. The food comes and I was all excited. Yea, that was brought down real quick. My mac and cheese was cold and almost tasted like the box mac and cheese you get at the grocery store. Then my sisters chicken wasn’t cooked all the way through. I’m almost 99.9% sure that’s a health code violation. We asked this waiter to fix this and he goes, and I quote “Its fine. Just eat it.” He walked away.
Moral of the story is Olive Garden needs to get it together. Maybe I went on a bad day for the restaurant but that is still unacceptable. We complained to the manager and he offered to redo our orders but thankfully we left.
