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Has Olive Garden Lost Its Way In A Forest Of Breadsticks & Cheap Gimmicks?
We can see it clearly: Olive Garden, alone and afraid, wandering around the the maze of casual dining, not knowing which way to turn, lost in a forest of unlimited, greasy breadsticks, as its sale...
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Olive Garden Accidentally Serves 10-Year-Old A Rum Cocktail
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a new “kid gets booze at chain restaurant” story, so, take it away, Olive Garden: Police say a 10-year-old boy made his way through half a rum cocktail at an Olive...
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Behold An Olive Garden And A Red Lobster Under One Roof
Darden, parent company of ubiquitous chain restaurants such as Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and LongHorn Steakhouse, likes to cluster its restaurants near each other. So it makes sense that in smaller...
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Handy Video Explains Exactly How To Opt Out Of Olive Garden's Invasive...
As consumers, we value our personal space and carefully guard the right to make our own choices. So perhaps Olive Garden’s tactic of offering unlimited breadsticks to whoever happens to walk through...
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Sears & Olive Garden To Give Workers Money To Go Choose Their Own Health...
(Morton Fox)The powers that be at two large U.S. companies — Sears and Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, and others) — are looking to transition away from their...
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Darden Experiments With Cutting Worker Hours To Avoid Paying Health Insurance
(Eva_Deht) As more pieces of the Affordable Care Act federal health care law come into effect, employers are evidently beginning to brainstorm ideas to save money and avoid having to provide health...
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Just What We Don’t Need — More Gift Cards! And This One’s From Facebook
(Facebook) Say the word “gift card” around Consumerist HQ and hackles will raise at an alarming rate. Which is why we’re greeting the news of a new gift card offered by Facebook with what one might...
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Olive Garden Servers Getting First Uniform Upgrade Since 1982
Olive Garden servers get new duds. Anyone who hates getting a stranger’s necktie in their plate of reasonably priced pasta will be glad to hear that Olive Garden is getting with the times and changing...
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Is This Comped Olive Garden Receipt The Real Deal Or Just Viral Marketing?
Is this receipt too good to be true? ANOTHER UPDATE: The man who originally posted the image has written back to confirm that this is indeed a genuine receipt, but that he doesn’t fault people for...
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Customer Who Posted Olive Garden Receipt Says He Understands The Skeptics
Click the image to see full size.Earlier today, we told you about a receipt posted by an Olive Garden diner whose meal was comped, and about all the doubters that came out of the woodwork to claim it...
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Salads Sold At Red Lobster & Olive Garden Linked To Cyclospora Outbreaks In...
(Morton Fox) Taking some of the guess-work out of figuring out why your stomach may currently be turned inside out, the Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that salads linked to a cyclospora...
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Olive Garden Waiter Boosts Tips By Impersonating Time-Traveling Alien
(Great Beyond and Morton Fox) We’re all tired of customer service platitudes and the same spiels that every restaurant server gives. When someone finds a way to make the experience fresh and funny, it...
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Are These The Final Days Of Automatic 18% Tips At Restaurants?
(Eva_Deht)Many restaurants have a policy of automatically adding a 15-20% tip for large groups of diners, but that practice may be going the way of the dinosaur as a new revision to IRS income tax...
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Olive Garden Will Start Serving Burgers And Fries Because Why Not
Would you buy a plate of ravioli from McDonald’s? How about the complete reverse of that: a burger from Olive Garden? The freshest idea from the chain eatery is a “Burger Italiano” intended to compete...
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Darden Is Preparing To Dump Red Lobster & Stop Trying To Expand Olive Garden
These are those biscuits your friend talks about. (Morton Fox) Before any Red Lobster fans go into some kind of crustacean-related panic, the chain isn’t going away forever. But that being said, it...
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Close To 20,000 Workers Join Lawsuit Claiming Darden Restaurants Underpaid...
(Eva_Deht) There’s a storm a’brewin’ and it’s made of almost 20,000 former and current Darden Restaurants employees who have joined a federal lawsuit against the company. The suit alleges that Darden...
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Olive Garden Will Provide Free Babysitting If You’ll Eat Dinner There...
(Morton Fox) Either Olive Garden is feeling helpful or just really, really wants customers to walk in its doors and sit down and eat. In any case, the casual dining chain is serving up free babysitting...
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Olive Garden Touting Its New Logo As The Symbol For Its “Brand Renaissance”
(Darden) Olive Garden has been busy trying to convince people it’s not the same fast casual dining experience it’s always been — first with tapas, then a burger and some new menus, and now Darden is...
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Olive Garden Suggested A Deceptively High Tip On My Receipt…Or Did It?
Raphael recently went out to eat at Olive Garden, the food and service were, he says, “fine.” He was less delighted when he looked at the receipt, though. It provided useful suggested tips for 15%,...
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The Most Calorie-Filled, Super-Salted Menu Items At Your Favorite “Italian”...
Olive Garden’s Lasagna Fritta appetizer has more than 1,000 calories and a full day’s worth of sodium.Most of us are fully aware when we step into an American-style, sort-of-Italian restaurant like...
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