I worked there and i have clinical depression and made me want to work there but i got bullied over my mental illness even tho they say they offer benefits and help for mental health.... They dont, and just so you all know servers dont get any benifits the other staff get, we sell the food and make 3 bucks an hour from the restaurant but get crap tips, my pay from the restaurant hardly covers my taxes, and the company owns you when you work there, they own your social media they own music you make, and they make sure they keep an eye on everything you post or say on the internet, if you work at olive garden please dont be a server it is not worth it, you have the hardest job and the company treats you like shit and the management treats you like shit and they keep a score of everything you sell and even if you have a bad section which is very common, they will gladly fire you, they held a meeting to fire 3 staff saying they werent good enough even tho they worked so hard, the corporate greed is real, dont be a server there! And the few tips you do make you have to pay 15% to staff and pay 24% taxes on that, so you dont make money dont get benifits and yur treated like a dog
Those people must have never worked in contemporary restaurants, fast food or otherwise. Or perhaps they've never worked for (or thought about the times they did) a large corporate entity.
So true about alot of the food...if reheating prepacked food (breadsticks!!) and adding your own butter and garlic is considered cooking, then hell, I've been a master chef since I learned how to use a can opener and a microwave!
I did the endless Soup, Salad, & Breadsticks it was amazing. I mostly used it to sample all of the Soups to know what I like. despite me clearly saying that, the waitress continued to serve me full bowls of soup. I tipped her very well when I left knowing what soups I would be ordering in the future.
I loved working at the Olive garden. I was an older student (35) returning back to school. The Olive Garden paid my way through. First day health insurance. Meals at reasonable (Free) prices. Money in my pocket. A party almost every night (wink, wink). For me, an absolutely wonderful experience at a transitional time of my life. I still eat there. I have nothing but good things to say about working there.
I bought the set of books by Todd Wilbur “Top Secret Recipes” just to get the Alfredo dipping sauce for Olive Garden”s breadsticks. His recipes are right on point……
Oregon servers at OG make BANK because it's $14 minimum per hour PLUS tips. Where you work at OG matters a lot. The worst part of the job is constantly having to make your OWN salad, soup and breadsticks for customers. The kitchen staff don't do it.
I used to work at Olive Garden it's owned by General Mills they make cereal. All the food you eat at Olive Garden is prepared, cooked and put in a vacuum package beggie and froze, what you're really eating is an expensive TV dinner, there is no chef in the kitchen they're only cooks boiling pots of water on stoves. They put the sealed frozen package food in the boiling pot of water until it's done. I would never spend my hard earned money for a expensive TV dinner at Olive Garden if you want to eat real Italian food go to a mom and pop shop restaurant.
I worked there for a couple years recently. While some things did come packaged absolutely not all did. Sauces were made in house, lasagna, all the soups, dinners sautéed to serve. The video is accurate. A lot more than people think is prepared in house and fresh.
Sorry that you think General Mills only makes and sells anything other than cereal. The General Foods Company makes more than just cereal and, is a company that’s been around for yrs. If you claim you worked for Olive Garden and you claim the food came from General Mills that should prove to you they make and manufacture more than just cereal. Another note people also know most restaurants that are chain restaurants get there food from big manufacture companies and, that’s also how they can sell a restaurant brand products in stores. That’s like Kraft Foods, there are tons of restaurants that manufacture food for lots of chain restaurants as well, that’s like then, they can come out with a line of products that are associated with those restaurants, which racks them in more money. One being for instance Kraft is associated with Cracker Barrel and Bob Evans just to name a couple.
I learned this back in the 1990’s when Olive Garden was just popping up big around my area. An acquaintance was hired as a cook and he was so disgusted that all he did was heat up frozen stuff that he quit.
I used to drive semi truck pulling a reefer trailer and I in the days hauled alot of stuff to General Mills in Minneapolis Minnesota and directly to there Lab up there. Also I hauled alot of juice out of Random Lake Wisconsin to Kraft foods in Springfield Missouri and I hauled alot of cheese there also that was put into Lunchables that so many kids and people snack on. And I hauled alot of cheese from creamery's in Wisconsin and Minnesota and Iowa down to Carthage Missouri to the caves and was distributed to many restaurants and food and grocery stores by Schreiber Foods. I also picked up cheese from Schreiber Foods DC in Carthage Missouri and hauled to Sioux City Iowa and a place in Minnesota where they made Lunchmakers similar to Krafts Lunchables but just a different company and the Lunchmakers were made and I hauled the finish product to Indianapolis Indiana to Americold for storage till needed. There are so many different things and products made by certain companies like Kraft Foods and Schreiber Foods it would blow your mind.
The best way to experience Italian food is to go to Italy but that’s of course expensive. Especially for those in the USA. Also Italian food is quite different to what you get served as Italian food in the USA. I am in the U.K. and even our Italian food isn’t authentic
I should try this place again. I stopped going quite a few years ago, not because it was horrible, but because I found a restaurant which is now closed but it was called tucci benuchi. And it was located at Mall of America. It was part of the lettuce entertainment group. They closed because, the mall of America got greedy and wanted more rent. This was some of the best Italian food I’ve ever had. Sorry, but that includes all of garden. And I got this information, I thought all their stuff came frozen and in bags it was not made fresh. So, this gives me a reason to try the restaurant again.
As a former line cook, it's corporate as usual. Do the job of 3 or 5 ppl. Paid minimum wage and blamed for everything by those who do 1 thing right. Tenure is paid to those doing over 30 hours AVERAGE per week on your anniversary. So they rip you off by scheduling you for 29 hours if your fast a.f and hooking up everyone else. Also don't have to pay you benefits in cali.
I’ll be real with ya bro I used to be a line cook at Olive Garden thought that I could do way better so I transferred to capital grille (since there both Darden) I get payed 20 a hour and I’m only 20
The standard practice in these "Slop-n-Serve" chain eateries is making sure managers keep everyone just below full time so benefits don't have to get paid to the workers. Sad but true.
Olive Garden has successfully created the most acceptable environment for awkward silences by asking people to tell them to stop when there's enough parmesan cheese on their food.
Wake up people. The REAL reason they "freshly grate cheese" is to lower food cost. If there is a cheese shaker on the tables, customers will use more cheese.
@@johnw6498I am currently employed at Olive Garden right now and it has nothing to do with saving money. This is done for sanitary reasons and it’s good service.
I have worked at Olive Garden for 4 months and got fired on my birthday. I was a busser against my wishes and as you know, Olive gardens have hundreds of tables on separate sides of the building. I was not only underpaid for the shit I was forced to clean but I was the only busser throughout most of my months. Imagine on a busy rush hour Saturday and a busy church Sunday, there’s 5 tables to clear on south side. I will work on those and as the only busser, no one could clean the other side but me. As I’m cleaning those 5 tables there will be 3 or more dirty tables on north side of the building. That’s not only stressful but near impossible. I would spends 30 min cleaning sauce and other hard to scrub meals off our carpet with my bare hands just to get yelled at in public to clean another big dirty party. A party of 50 once came in and made us all gussets and waiters life hell and for 5 hours straight. They left and didn’t leave a single tip yet they spend over 400 dollars.
Literally just got fired from the same position without a warning or a write up because I was physically incapable of being the only busser for the entire restaurant (nobody can do this) and was in charge of all the side stations. I don’t know where to begin with how ridiculous the circumstances were but the cherry on top was that I was being bullied for 6 months and nothing was ever done about it, bully still worked there and still pushed me around. Fuck Olive Garden but also now I have to worry about feeding my family and having a place to live. Lol.
@@septemberquest6393 idk for certain as it’s different for mutiple people but from what I’ve done, dishes can pile up a lot and servers don’t always have time to wait for clean plates and other items so if you do dishwashing, make sure you got the stamina. It can get very hot by the dish machine also so beware of that. It can be compacted and tight space to work in also.
These days these food chains sck and it was not your fault .servers were suppose to pick up there stuff too they are laz now and expect the busser to do it and tip you nothing. I took care of my bussers sometimes giving them almsot half of my tips I made decent money and the bussers deserved it as much as I did. I kept my busser confident praising him and taught him stuff he became a server soon. Do not ever apply for a busser go straight to server and work in hight end resorts. They completely train you anyway and being a server is not rocket science byt some people underestimate it , you just need to have a good memory which gets better in time because you are constantly using it anyway multitas which is a skill that you will aquire and humility to be a server nd not care how others perceive you or say about servers. you get the last laugh when you walk home with very good money at end of your shift. of course you need to be a charming good server that geniounly just listens to the guest needs but if they are horrible guest, you also have the right to stop serving them
@@rastassassin9416 I don't eat out so no I'm not a tipping customer. But I'm also not the one complaining about how hard it is to serve customers food. I work in a real physical labor industry that under pays.
It's mostly true. Except for the discounts. Any employee working for any concept owned by Darden (Olive Garden, Yardhouse, Ruth's, Eddie V's, Season's 52, Longhorn, Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, etc) gets discounts in any of the other concepts.
It’s a shame it doesn’t seem so fair to the workers, so I rarely eat there. That being said, I must say their breadsticks are delicious of course and their salad is very delicious. They used to offer a raspberry cheesecake for dessert that was awesome. Surprisingly, my favorite order of ALL there is not even pasta!!! The herb- crusted salmon dinner is, imo, just done to perfection!! Seasoned and prepared just right- better than many seafood restaurants around!! And the staff where I was each time, were great. It was a nice experience! (What I do when it’s really fabulous is not only leave a good tip, but I also ask to speak to the Manager, and tell them that the food and server were exceptional!!)
Olive Garden was a lot of work for hardly any pay...I’m at a different corporation now making nearly double what I made there..and the job is much easier with better food
Oliver Garden is pretty much the most difficult serving job. Most place you only need to serve the food and refill drinks. But at olive garden you have to also refill breadsticks, soup, and salads (endlessly). And are also expected to fill the salad, make the soups and yell at the breadstick maker to make more when they’re low. So many other things you have to do and are completely inefficient and adds unnecessary work to the server. Then the customers complain about you taking so long when you back there restocking the entire kitchen and getting buckets of ice for the drinks.
I went once. The servers were overworked thus the service was bad. Not our servers fault. Anyway, the experiance was bad, the food was plain and what's with them stuffing you with bread ? Anyway, we left quickly because we were not having fun and the lady next to us was a karen before I knew that term. Yes, I gave our server more than I usually do because I could see she was working to hard. Even my mechanics didnt work that hard. Hope she found a better job.
Just a tip but any restaurant that offers you free bread or something similar is just trying to get you to put your main entrè in a box. The idea is to turn the table over faster to increase revenue.
@@jeremyramey3221 yea, understood. It's always the intention. But I'm not much of a restaurant type of guy but that one time I wanted a relaxed experiance with the family. Didnt get it. Also the last time we ever went there which means well over 10 years ago.
@@georgecurtis6463 oh I don't blame you. I've been in the industry for over 30yrs. I stopped working for those corporate owned chains 20yrs ago. It's all about expedient profits in a pseudo concept atmosphere. Do yourself a favor and learn to cook most meals at home while saving enough money to visit a real privately owned restaurant 2x a month. You'll be happier and have a profound respect for the most important part of your day. (The necessary part). Dinner is the best way to create a memory.
@@jeremyramey3221 yea, we already do. We get take out about once a week and that's it. Not much choices here and I'm tired of the repetitive choices. Just the same same same choices. If a newish place comes, we may try it but most times the food is overpriced average food. You know it's bad when the food on a truck is better than most places. Anyway, maybe I'm just to picky.
If they worked as hard at respect and integrity as they do at their fake ass upsell crap, they might actually have employees who gave a damn. I barely made it two months til I quit drinking their KoolAid.
I was stationed in Italy for 3 1/2 years while in the Navy. The crap they make and sell and CALL Italian is a joke. One of my favorite dishes in Italy was Pasta e fagioli. I don't know where OG got their recipe, but it was NOT Italy.
I worked at OG for years and you get a bunch of discounts throughout Darden brands, you get a 100% stock buy match so if you buy shares of Darden you get double ( up to your yearly wages maxed out ) so if you make $50k a year and put $25k in they'll match your $25k ( or at least they did this when I worked there in 2013-2014 ). I loved eating there and the food is actually all made fresh besides a couple things.
Just started working as a busser and I can say that if you apply to an olive garden don't take this position unless you have a good work ethic and strong legs, usually the host and server positions are full and there's Def a reason there's not many bussers.
Literally just got fired from the same position without a warning or a write up because I was physically incapable of being the only busser for the entire restaurant (nobody can do this) and was in charge of all the side stations. I don’t know where to begin with how ridiculous the circumstances were but the cherry on top was that I was being bullied for 6 months and nothing was ever done about it, bully still worked there and still pushed me around. Fuck Olive Garden but also now I have to worry about feeding my family and having a place to live. Lol.
EVERYTHING IS FROZEN!! I used to work there and seriously NOTHING I mean nothing is fresh!! Also management treats employees like trash. NOT to mention that guests well customers are beyond nasty can and will throw things at you cuss you out constantly and you just are expected to take it.
I dodged a bullet. I tried to get a job there as a dishwasher and the GM made the interview so hard for me. He’s def picky and discriminates against foreign people
I once sat with a friend while they had dinner at an OG in Owasso, OK. When we finished, we were charged for TWO dinners and MADE to pay. Their rationale was that I (the non-eater) had taken a seat that could have been used by an eater (payer) the but company was denied that money by me, an unfeeling non-paying schlub of a non-eater, and thus I was charged. OBVIOUSLY, I HAVEN'T BEEN BACK, AND I'LL NEVER GO BACK AND WILL CONTINUE TO TELL THIS STORY TO ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN.
The sauces and some soups are made fresh. The desserts are prepackaged (management will even admit this), as are the breadsticks. The breadsticks are prepackaged, put on a tray, buttered, seasoned, and reheated in the oven, then put in a warming tray. The salads are mostly prepackaged, though the tomatoes and a few other veggies are cut. The chicken is prefrozen patties that are reheated and chopped. Funny, but management will tell its new hires (among many other lies) that aside from the desserts, the food is made 'fresh from scratch'. Lies mixed with misinformation. While there are microwaves on the line, and they do get used for certain things, many of the pasta dishes are cooked over gas in skillets. Fried Calamari, and the shrimp, as well as the raviolis are basically the kind of stuff you'd buy in the freezer section of a grocery store.
I'm thinking the real truth is the staff is over worked, and under paid. Tipping is like paying over MSRP for a vehicle because the real issue is the owners don't pay what their staff it's worth and for what they do. In all honesty, you can make the same food at home with equal or better quality ingredients for a lot less money.
Yes. Being black did result me to get less tips because i was assigned less shifts and worst sections. I lasted only several months. It happened at every place i worked except damon's
No it's not, especially not the one in a certain main city in Oklahoma. Can't get into much detail because of my lawsuit, but to put it as safe as I can..... A certain manager claims that Servers pay the bussers wages because they tip out bussers a percentage of total sales of the restaurant for that shift. (But did you know Oklahoma is one of the last states in America to pay their servers $2.13 an hour because they receive tips? )and the bussers are paid $6 an hour, so they do this thing called Tip Share, where they make it look like they pay you $12 an hour, when really if the servers dont make enough tips in 4 hour shift that adds up too $12 an hour, they take your tips split a percentage to the bussers and then we all get super taxed on the tips. In most states Servers make atleast minimum wage most of the time more, and they get to keep all of their tips.
I wish I lived in Western Europe instead of the United States. I never knew that 43 states allowed restaurants to underpay servers. As if minimum wage wasn't underpayment enough.
Increase minimum wage laws for serving. Staff. Our minimum wage here in the United Kingdom applies to all workers. There is no separate wage for waiting staff. Tipping is less of a thing here and in some parts of Europe it’s actively discouraged. In Japan it’s something no one should ever do
Both companies are owned by a parent company, called Darden. They also own Cheddar's, Seasons 52, Yard House, Bahama Breeze and Capitol Grill. Olive Garden is by far the lowest in quality on the totem pole, but they are also the company's bread and butter, pun intended.
the part about burning yourself with the bread is no joke, i make soups and sauces along with bread and ive burned myself on that oven dozens of times. its not a bad spot or anything im just clumsy during a rush
I worked for Olive garden for 13 years. I brought that 3 of them2 different states They asked if they treat you like family Yes like the red headed step child that no 1 ever wanted. I work there because it was convenient It was a mile away from my house all 3 times It sounds like you talk to a lot of servers How about you ask the cooks Nothing is freshly made It's all frozen It's just heated up. The bread sticks are joke They toast them and put butter and garlic salt on it. I want to how much they paid the guy extra to say he loves his job there. The only send Managers. There's no chef's there. About racism There were no racism I worked up No sexism They're pretty good about that stuff So there's a positive I guess. But they just said It's not USIT's the minimum wage laws. They could fix that. Okay Now I'm gonna tell you how I feel about the restaurant The General manager did not know what was going on anytime Who knows on how she got the job that And all the other managers As competent as she was. If it was a mom and pop shop it would have closed. And remember I did not get fired I didn't quit it was because of I want what's going on in 2020. Would you tell the The managers who had there favorites Then they let them get away with everything And the people who worked really hard that didn't even notice. That's why I hate big chain restaurants all that give about is making the company money and not caring about the employees at all. But I was a dishwasher Host busser And everything in between. It will be nice if everybody was train a lot better.
Very hostile work environment...managers will upsell and make claims of "stringent and consistent policies", but there is very little communication and delegation. Not that it's unique to OG or Darden, but there is plenty of gaslighting, bigotry, and (mostly passive aggressive) hostility bred among employees and often aimed at newbies. Drink the kool aid, and you'll just be busting your ass for exclusion and harassment as a reward.
The kitchen is disorganized and they even told me, not to do my job. I know right? And tried to keep me till 2 M last night. I was gone brug f* olive garden
I've had their unlimited salad bowl - don't mind seconds on that. ONE bread stick is absolutely all I want to eat of those. I'm not a high-starch person. Didn't know unlimited soups meant you can get a second type for your second soup... I'd try that, then - so far I've never ordered a second soup cause I thought it would be the same one again. The regular food there - pedestrian. They're :okay" but not worth eating at in most cases.
Lol whenever I hear it's not that bad working somewhere the first thing I hear is if it isn't for the people lol sounded like me in the navy. If it wasn't for the people because that job sucked but the people will either make it or break it for someone
I knew the Darden marketing manager in Orlando and he had some funny stories about the old Italian lady they used in the OG commercials. She was all in on her way of cooking and constantly tried to get OG to change. She was really nice and outgoing
"The real problem was the minimum wage laws " Then pay above the minimum wage. It's a MINIMUM, not a MANDATED, wage. There's absolutely nothing stopping them from paying their employees more -- nothing but the seemingly endless abyss of corporate greed. I worked in the restaurant industry for almost 30 years, and the server minimum never increased. In fact, several corporate places have made employees such as host staff "tipped" employees so they are paid the lower wage, then force the service staff to tip them out of their earnings. This is nothing more than a shameless attempt to have servers subsidize the restaurant's payroll, and it's unfortunately legal in many states.
If they don’t like the wage, they can leave. No one is forcing them to work there. They took the job based upon a mutually agreed upon wage. Get something better if you don’t like it.
@@R._Thornhill Which is what people are doing in droves. However, now certain people are complaining when their favorite restaurants are unable to keep staff or maintain service. Perhaps service staff are tired of being treated like domestic servants from some Victorian-era nightmare. Whether it's because of the pandemic or the years of abuse these workers have endured, the chickens have come home to roost.
@Michael Harley my point Sir is that no one is forcing anyone to work there. I worked as a waiter in a low-end restaurant for a couple of years, so I know what it’s like. No one forced me to work there, I did so under my own free will until I could find a better job.
i’m appalled they don’t just get a free freaking meal on shifts you work actually broke my heart LOL just applied but that’s one thing i love…free food
All that place has to offer is decent evoo to dip their bread in. They have no appetizers and the entrees are comparable to Applebee’s. No surprise. Franchise. Give your business to your local restaurant. They need you
Yeah, same at Greensboro OG. Why do they raise their prices? Inflation man, those bribes to the health inspectors ain't getting any cheaper! (But the trash bags are)
yeah, I'm a 4 yr server. and just no. almost none of this fits in a realm of reality. yes you get discounts on several other restaurants (i.e. bahama breezes or cheddars) it's true that if you can serve all unlimited soup, salad, and bread sticks you could prob serve anywhere. yep we have to make the bread if it's not provided by a normally scheduled bread and salad prep "family member". and good lord feedback is treated like an attack on the management's ability as opposed to constructive feedback to greese the wheels for a better guest experience. those that take truly take pride in what they do are sometimes sidelined by personal opinions as opposed to performance.
Lmao this video came out right in the middle of the great resignation. I’m, how much did Mash get paid by Darden to make this? Olive Garden is a shit place to work.
I don't care how fresh it is, I have never gotten another breadstick, no matter how many times you ask for it, and their meat sauce is awful...full of sugar...can't stand it.
I love Olive Garden!! I know it's Americanized 🇮🇹 food because my best friend is Sicilian so I've tasted real 🇮🇹 food. But when I can't get her great 🇮🇹 meals that she learned from her Nona, I will go to Olive Garden. Service is great and the food is freshly made. But there is nothing better than real Italian cooking from a Nona in Jersey. She past away a while back. I miss her holiday cookies and Connolly she would make for me every year. 🙏's for my best friend and Italian sister and her grandma who loved me like I was her granddaughter too. Jen u had the best granny just like me.
Please tip your waitress and waiters. If they are giving good service. Alot of them are college students. I remember what that was like for me. That's why I always give a good tip 4 good service.
I put in my two weeks a couple days ago. After working there for nearly 2 years, I'll say if you order the S&S, please tip the server well if you ask for constant refills. The amount of work you have to put as a server (refilling drinks, attentiveness, running food and other coworkers, rolling silverware, helping others) is massive.
How about just put everything on a 'buffet bar' including fountain drinks instead? That way "servers" don't have to think they're entitled to a lot of $$ just because they bring me a basket of bread.
From personal experience the food is awesome and the servers work really hard to make customers happy! If you love Italian food it's the place to go 😋😁👍🏻
It's quite mediocre for anyone who has eaten real Italian food, If you like to eat like a pig, troughing there is ok, jeez this site is reading straight from Reddit.
That sounds much better than the current setup, not made in house coming in various boxes that weigh up to 50 pounds. The ravioli, mozzarella sticks, sweet Italian doughnuts, zitti pasta, kids chicken tenders, are all frozen prior to deep frying.
Always loved Olive Garden. Only had one bad experience when they had changed managers a few years back. Took over an hour to get our food and it was cold. We have a place called Vs here in KC that's supposed to be authentic Italian food. Went one time. Never again. Way over priced tiny tables for 2 people and they served cold pumpernickel rolls??? When we asked for cheese they brought us a shaker of the parmesan like you get at pizza hut!!! That's not what I call authentic Italian. Miss Olive Garden. Haven't been since covid started.
The cure for that...work there, or just hang in the kitchen for an hour. Wish I could go back to just enjoying their okay food...but some things can't be unseen or unheard.
It's the worst S@#$%thole I have ever worked in. They made me work with my finger bleeding on father's day, so yeah. I have a scar on my middle finger thanks to "my family". It's a buffet disguised as a restaurant. The infernal unlimited garbage it's a nightmare for any experienced of beginner server. You go 10 times to the table and your check is still $20. Guests are rude, unkempt and have no manners at all (one was watching porn at one of my tables). The cheese grater is the most disgraceful thing a human being can do to another. I would ask my guests: " You let me know when to stop" and they would reply: " Until your arm breaks". You politely laugh, but inside you are wishing them to choke on their stuffed ravioli. I have nightmares until this day of that place. I wake up sweating in the middle of the night feeling that i forgot the cheese, the salad, the refill, I go to the kitchen and there are no breadsticks, the soup is empty and I have 5 refills and the food is already coming out...I hated every minute of my tenure there. Thankfully all the managers I worked with were fired after I was gone and now a new team runs the show, but the concept is still a disgrace for any person trying to make a living wage. My advice: NEVER work for that place. Go to a mid tier restaurant where there is nothing free and main courses are above $30 , and then move up to upscale dining. But yeah, they do make their own sauces and soup fresh everyday....
Good news is, they're as easy and probably cheaper for you to make them as Olive Garden... Step 1: Get some bread shaped in the form of a stick. Step 2: Align desired amount on cookie sheet. Step 3: Spread melted butter or oleo over the sticks. Step 4: Sprinkle garlic salt (or desired seasoning) over sticks. Step 5: Pop 'em in the oven til they're lightly browned. Step 6: Remove, let cool, enjoy! You don't have to be a great chef, just a decent re-heater...its worked for the OG for years!! 😉
Olive garden never claimed to be a authentic Italian place. every location is diffrent depending on the pride and work morality the coooks have, I loved working at the olive , I ove the food but again go to a nice location most of those are of course in pretty nice communities.
I don't know who created this, but in an attempt to make it seem like a horrible place they failed. Sounds like a great place to work and if you're inept enough to burn yourself on the hot breadsticks that's on you. I'm Italian and although the food is not really "authentic" it is good and I always enjoy my meals there.
Current employee of OG and it’s actually a horrible place to work, we are over worked and under paid and ppl really don’t tip yet they want perfect service
Pffffft. Sauces, soups, desserts, and breadsticks are all pre-made. The normal pasta is not homemade. The stuffed pastas and ravioli are frozen/pre-made. Someone lied to you.
What do you think about Olive Garden?
I love the Olive Garden . It’s one of favorite restaurants
They can afford to pay their staff decent wages.
I worked there and i have clinical depression and made me want to work there but i got bullied over my mental illness even tho they say they offer benefits and help for mental health.... They dont, and just so you all know servers dont get any benifits the other staff get, we sell the food and make 3 bucks an hour from the restaurant but get crap tips, my pay from the restaurant hardly covers my taxes, and the company owns you when you work there, they own your social media they own music you make, and they make sure they keep an eye on everything you post or say on the internet, if you work at olive garden please dont be a server it is not worth it, you have the hardest job and the company treats you like shit and the management treats you like shit and they keep a score of everything you sell and even if you have a bad section which is very common, they will gladly fire you, they held a meeting to fire 3 staff saying they werent good enough even tho they worked so hard, the corporate greed is real, dont be a server there! And the few tips you do make you have to pay 15% to staff and pay 24% taxes on that, so you dont make money dont get benifits and yur treated like a dog
Great food!
Frozen food
customer complains about not having enough breadsticks
hardly eats the main meal because they got filled up on breadsticks and soup
That's the point 2 meals 1 price 😂
ANYBODY who believes their job thinks they are family is in for a HARSH awakening
Those people must have never worked in contemporary restaurants, fast food or otherwise. Or perhaps they've never worked for (or thought about the times they did) a large corporate entity.
Amen
Someone obviously got paid off by Olive Garden haha. Worked there for over 2 years, the food is far from fresh, they use frozen Tyson chicken.
So true about alot of the food...if reheating prepacked food (breadsticks!!) and adding your own butter and garlic is considered cooking, then hell, I've been a master chef since I learned how to use a can opener and a microwave!
I work at one in richmond everything always looks pretty fresh to me
@@ObscuraGuardRichmond Virginia?
I did the endless Soup, Salad, & Breadsticks it was amazing. I mostly used it to sample all of the Soups to know what I like. despite me clearly saying that, the waitress continued to serve me full bowls of soup. I tipped her very well when I left knowing what soups I would be ordering in the future.
I loved working at the Olive garden. I was an older student (35) returning back to school. The Olive Garden paid my way through. First day health insurance. Meals at reasonable (Free) prices. Money in my pocket. A party almost every night (wink, wink). For me, an absolutely wonderful experience at a transitional time of my life. I still eat there. I have nothing but good things to say about working there.
Lol You obviously didn't work up the 1 I worked at... You right party Every night
What location did you work at,Brooklyn?
Me too , I really think its the location too and what you do with your tables . Be a good server the tips will roll in.
No matter where you go to eat, someone will always have a negative attitude
Steve, there will always be arrogant people. O.G. Employees bravo
Yes you're 100% right But is different working now
I bought the set of books by Todd Wilbur “Top Secret Recipes” just to get the Alfredo dipping sauce for Olive Garden”s breadsticks. His recipes are right on point……
Worked there. Gained 10lbs eating the bread sticks with Alfredo for lunch
Oregon servers at OG make BANK because it's $14 minimum per hour PLUS tips. Where you work at OG matters a lot. The worst part of the job is constantly having to make your OWN salad, soup and breadsticks for customers. The kitchen staff don't do it.
The salad n breadsticks are the hardest part fun fact the breadsticks are basted in tears
And blood
I used to work at Olive Garden it's owned by General Mills they make cereal. All the food you eat at Olive Garden is prepared, cooked and put in a vacuum package beggie and froze, what you're really eating is an expensive TV dinner, there is no chef in the kitchen they're only cooks boiling pots of water on stoves. They put the sealed frozen package food in the boiling pot of water until it's done. I would never spend my hard earned money for a expensive TV dinner at Olive Garden if you want to eat real Italian food go to a mom and pop shop restaurant.
I worked there for a couple years recently. While some things did come packaged absolutely not all did. Sauces were made in house, lasagna, all the soups, dinners sautéed to serve. The video is accurate. A lot more than people think is prepared in house and fresh.
Sorry that you think General Mills only makes and sells anything other than cereal. The General Foods Company makes more than just cereal and, is a company that’s been around for yrs. If you claim you worked for Olive Garden and you claim the food came from General Mills that should prove to you they make and manufacture more than just cereal. Another note people also know most restaurants that are chain restaurants get there food from big manufacture companies and, that’s also how they can sell a restaurant brand products in stores. That’s like Kraft Foods, there are tons of restaurants that manufacture food for lots of chain restaurants as well, that’s like then, they can come out with a line of products that are associated with those restaurants, which racks them in more money. One being for instance Kraft is associated with Cracker Barrel and Bob Evans just to name a couple.
I learned this back in the 1990’s when Olive Garden was just popping up big around my area. An acquaintance was hired as a cook and he was so disgusted that all he did was heat up frozen stuff that he quit.
I used to drive semi truck pulling a reefer trailer and I in the days hauled alot of stuff to General Mills in Minneapolis Minnesota and directly to there Lab up there. Also I hauled alot of juice out of Random Lake Wisconsin to Kraft foods in Springfield Missouri and I hauled alot of cheese there also that was put into Lunchables that so many kids and people snack on. And I hauled alot of cheese from creamery's in Wisconsin and Minnesota and Iowa down to Carthage Missouri to the caves and was distributed to many restaurants and food and grocery stores by Schreiber Foods. I also picked up cheese from Schreiber Foods DC in Carthage Missouri and hauled to Sioux City Iowa and a place in Minnesota where they made Lunchmakers similar to Krafts Lunchables but just a different company and the Lunchmakers were made and I hauled the finish product to Indianapolis Indiana to Americold for storage till needed. There are so many different things and products made by certain companies like Kraft Foods and Schreiber Foods it would blow your mind.
The best way to experience Italian food is to go to Italy but that’s of course expensive. Especially for those in the USA. Also Italian food is quite different to what you get served as Italian food in the USA. I am in the U.K. and even our Italian food isn’t authentic
I should try this place again. I stopped going quite a few years ago, not because it was horrible, but because I found a restaurant which is now closed but it was called tucci benuchi. And it was located at Mall of America. It was part of the lettuce entertainment group. They closed because, the mall of America got greedy and wanted more rent. This was some of the best Italian food I’ve ever had. Sorry, but that includes all of garden.
And I got this information, I thought all their stuff came frozen and in bags it was not made fresh. So, this gives me a reason to try the restaurant again.
They had that in Chicago! & yea it’s frozen
As a former line cook, it's corporate as usual. Do the job of 3 or 5 ppl. Paid minimum wage and blamed for everything by those who do 1 thing right. Tenure is paid to those doing over 30 hours AVERAGE per week on your anniversary. So they rip you off by scheduling you for 29 hours if your fast a.f and hooking up everyone else. Also don't have to pay you benefits in cali.
then go work at a REAL restaurant.
I’ll be real with ya bro I used to be a line cook at Olive Garden thought that I could do way better so I transferred to capital grille (since there both Darden) I get payed 20 a hour and I’m only 20
The standard practice in these "Slop-n-Serve" chain eateries is making sure managers keep everyone just below full time so benefits don't have to get paid to the workers. Sad but true.
Olive Garden has successfully created the most acceptable environment for awkward silences by asking people to tell them to stop when there's enough parmesan cheese on their food.
Wake up people. The REAL reason they "freshly grate cheese" is to lower food cost. If there is a cheese shaker on the tables, customers will use more cheese.
@@johnw6498Duh
@@johnw6498I am currently employed at Olive Garden right now and it has nothing to do with saving money. This is done for sanitary reasons and it’s good service.
I have worked at Olive Garden for 4 months and got fired on my birthday. I was a busser against my wishes and as you know, Olive gardens have hundreds of tables on separate sides of the building. I was not only underpaid for the shit I was forced to clean but I was the only busser throughout most of my months. Imagine on a busy rush hour Saturday and a busy church Sunday, there’s 5 tables to clear on south side. I will work on those and as the only busser, no one could clean the other side but me. As I’m cleaning those 5 tables there will be 3 or more dirty tables on north side of the building. That’s not only stressful but near impossible. I would spends 30 min cleaning sauce and other hard to scrub meals off our carpet with my bare hands just to get yelled at in public to clean another big dirty party. A party of 50 once came in and made us all gussets and waiters life hell and for 5 hours straight. They left and didn’t leave a single tip yet they spend over 400 dollars.
Literally just got fired from the same position without a warning or a write up because I was physically incapable of being the only busser for the entire restaurant (nobody can do this) and was in charge of all the side stations. I don’t know where to begin with how ridiculous the circumstances were but the cherry on top was that I was being bullied for 6 months and nothing was ever done about it, bully still worked there and still pushed me around. Fuck Olive Garden but also now I have to worry about feeding my family and having a place to live. Lol.
I applied for a dishwasher position in Brooklyn site.what can I expect?
@@septemberquest6393 idk for certain as it’s different for mutiple people but from what I’ve done, dishes can pile up a lot and servers don’t always have time to wait for clean plates and other items so if you do dishwashing, make sure you got the stamina. It can get very hot by the dish machine also so beware of that. It can be compacted and tight space to work in also.
@@dubstepphoenix5261 thank you DP ...JUST DOING MY RESEARCH...VERY HELPFUL.
These days these food chains sck and it was not your fault .servers were suppose to pick up there stuff too they are laz now and expect the busser to do it and tip you nothing. I took care of my bussers sometimes giving them almsot half of my tips I made decent money and the bussers deserved it as much as I did. I kept my busser confident praising him and taught him stuff he became a server soon. Do not ever apply for a busser go straight to server and work in hight end resorts. They completely train you anyway and being a server is not rocket science byt some people underestimate it , you just need to have a good memory which gets better in time because you are constantly using it anyway multitas which is a skill that you will aquire and humility to be a server nd not care how others perceive you or say about servers. you get the last laugh when you walk home with very good money at end of your shift. of course you need to be a charming good server that geniounly just listens to the guest needs but if they are horrible guest, you also have the right to stop serving them
20 $ for a plate of spaghetti with 2 frozen meatballs 🤣🤣🤣
This place its expensive as hell!!
Not expensive enough.
But u get unlimited soup, salad, breadsticks, and refills for free lmao
U don’t find that anywhere else
@@ObscuraGuard that's for sure mediocre food for 20$ nowhere that for sure🤣
@@ObscuraGuard I don't wanna pay 20$ for breadsticks and lettuce lol wtf?🤣
Absolutely the worst job I’ve ever had
Every time I've been to Olive Garden I've felt bad for the people working at Olive Garden. Please always tip well it is not an easy job!
Always, I leave them no less than a $10.00 tip. They deserve it
Amen, it was the hardest job I ever worked. 🙏
So is construction, nobody's tipping me.
@@juancarlosnegron2358 I’m guessing you’re not a tipping customer…
@@rastassassin9416 I don't eat out so no I'm not a tipping customer. But I'm also not the one complaining about how hard it is to serve customers food. I work in a real physical labor industry that under pays.
2.13 an hour plus tips is not a living wage,
I love how Mashed gets ALL of its information from Reddit.
It's mostly true. Except for the discounts. Any employee working for any concept owned by Darden (Olive Garden, Yardhouse, Ruth's, Eddie V's, Season's 52, Longhorn, Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, etc) gets discounts in any of the other concepts.
It’s a shame it doesn’t seem so fair to the workers, so I rarely eat there. That being said, I must say their breadsticks are delicious of course and their salad is very delicious. They used to offer a raspberry cheesecake for dessert that was awesome. Surprisingly, my favorite order of ALL there is not even pasta!!! The herb- crusted salmon dinner is, imo, just done to perfection!! Seasoned and prepared just right- better than many seafood restaurants around!! And the staff where I was each time, were great. It was a nice experience! (What I do when it’s really fabulous is not only leave a good tip, but I also ask to speak to the Manager, and tell them that the food and server were exceptional!!)
100% the salmon is imo the best thing on the menu
Olive Garden was a lot of work for hardly any pay...I’m at a different corporation now making nearly double what I made there..and the job is much easier with better food
Maybe, stop feeding the corporations? 🤷🏻♂️
Oliver Garden is pretty much the most difficult serving job. Most place you only need to serve the food and refill drinks. But at olive garden you have to also refill breadsticks, soup, and salads (endlessly). And are also expected to fill the salad, make the soups and yell at the breadstick maker to make more when they’re low. So many other things you have to do and are completely inefficient and adds unnecessary work to the server. Then the customers complain about you taking so long when you back there restocking the entire kitchen and getting buckets of ice for the drinks.
@@Ham24brand A-fucking-MEN!
Our Olive Garden near me has the same wait staff for the 12 years I've been going there...We're just all older now
Yeah I worked my for 13 years
I went once. The servers were overworked thus the service was bad. Not our servers fault. Anyway, the experiance was bad, the food was plain and what's with them stuffing you with bread ? Anyway, we left quickly because we were not having fun and the lady next to us was a karen before I knew that term. Yes, I gave our server more than I usually do because I could see she was working to hard. Even my mechanics didnt work that hard. Hope she found a better job.
And it's cheap...right?🤣🤣🤣
Just a tip but any restaurant that offers you free bread or something similar is just trying to get you to put your main entrè in a box. The idea is to turn the table over faster to increase revenue.
@@jeremyramey3221 yea, understood. It's always the intention. But I'm not much of a restaurant type of guy but that one time I wanted a relaxed experiance with the family. Didnt get it. Also the last time we ever went there which means well over 10 years ago.
@@georgecurtis6463 oh I don't blame you. I've been in the industry for over 30yrs. I stopped working for those corporate owned chains 20yrs ago. It's all about expedient profits in a pseudo concept atmosphere. Do yourself a favor and learn to cook most meals at home while saving enough money to visit a real privately owned restaurant 2x a month. You'll be happier and have a profound respect for the most important part of your day. (The necessary part). Dinner is the best way to create a memory.
@@jeremyramey3221 yea, we already do. We get take out about once a week and that's it. Not much choices here and I'm tired of the repetitive choices. Just the same same same choices. If a newish place comes, we may try it but most times the food is overpriced average food. You know it's bad when the food on a truck is better than most places. Anyway, maybe I'm just to picky.
I just worked there 3 days. Want to know how it went? It's a f* joke. Talk about miss management.
If they worked as hard at respect and integrity as they do at their fake ass upsell crap, they might actually have employees who gave a damn. I barely made it two months til I quit drinking their KoolAid.
I was considering applying for a dishwasher pos. In New York branh...I've got second thoughts.
The 'upside of having been burned while prepping to serve breadsticks is that it's a known 'rite of passage' / a 'club' of sorts :D
Yeah it's like when you worked at a fast food place and burn your hand on the French fries right out of the oil
Most restaurants have dirty secrets that diners don't know about until it gets leaked out.
My brother works for the cable company, he has seen some health department nightmares.
I was stationed in Italy for 3 1/2 years while in the Navy. The crap they make and sell and CALL Italian is a joke. One of my favorite dishes in Italy was Pasta e fagioli. I don't know where OG got their recipe, but it was NOT Italy.
Well said
I worked at OG for years and you get a bunch of discounts throughout Darden brands, you get a 100% stock buy match so if you buy shares of Darden you get double ( up to your yearly wages maxed out ) so if you make $50k a year and put $25k in they'll match your $25k ( or at least they did this when I worked there in 2013-2014 ).
I loved eating there and the food is actually all made fresh besides a couple things.
Why’d you leave?
🤢
I used to work at Olive Garden it’s not worth it
I'm applying for a dishwasher in a New York branch..what can I expect?
Just started working as a busser and I can say that if you apply to an olive garden don't take this position unless you have a good work ethic and strong legs, usually the host and server positions are full and there's Def a reason there's not many bussers.
Literally just got fired from the same position without a warning or a write up because I was physically incapable of being the only busser for the entire restaurant (nobody can do this) and was in charge of all the side stations. I don’t know where to begin with how ridiculous the circumstances were but the cherry on top was that I was being bullied for 6 months and nothing was ever done about it, bully still worked there and still pushed me around. Fuck Olive Garden but also now I have to worry about feeding my family and having a place to live. Lol.
What location did you work at?
@@septemberquest6393 Novi MI
EVERYTHING IS FROZEN!! I used to work there and seriously NOTHING I mean nothing is fresh!! Also management treats employees like trash. NOT to mention that guests well customers are beyond nasty can and will throw things at you cuss you out constantly and you just are expected to take it.
I dodged a bullet. I tried to get a job there as a dishwasher and the GM made the interview so hard for me. He’s def picky and discriminates against foreign people
I applied for dishwasher..what should I expect? ( brooklyn ny)
I once sat with a friend while they had dinner at an OG in Owasso, OK. When we finished, we were charged for TWO dinners and MADE to pay. Their rationale was that I (the non-eater) had taken a seat that could have been used by an eater (payer) the but company was denied that money by me, an unfeeling non-paying schlub of a non-eater, and thus I was charged. OBVIOUSLY, I HAVEN'T BEEN BACK, AND I'LL NEVER GO BACK AND WILL CONTINUE TO TELL THIS STORY TO ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN.
I call bullshit on this story
My brother works for olive garden and he looooves it and its true about the fresh food made there.
Fresh?
Yes fresh look it up
The sauces and some soups are made fresh. The desserts are prepackaged (management will even admit this), as are the breadsticks. The breadsticks are prepackaged, put on a tray, buttered, seasoned, and reheated in the oven, then put in a warming tray. The salads are mostly prepackaged, though the tomatoes and a few other veggies are cut. The chicken is prefrozen patties that are reheated and chopped.
Funny, but management will tell its new hires (among many other lies) that aside from the desserts, the food is made 'fresh from scratch'. Lies mixed with misinformation.
While there are microwaves on the line, and they do get used for certain things, many of the pasta dishes are cooked over gas in skillets. Fried Calamari, and the shrimp, as well as the raviolis are basically the kind of stuff you'd buy in the freezer section of a grocery store.
What site does he work at?
I'm thinking the real truth is the staff is over worked, and under paid. Tipping is like paying over MSRP for a vehicle because the real issue is the owners don't pay what their staff it's worth and for what they do. In all honesty, you can make the same food at home with equal or better quality ingredients for a lot less money.
Yes. Being black did result me to get less tips because i was assigned less shifts and worst sections. I lasted only several months. It happened at every place i worked except damon's
That is not the reason.
That is sad, My motto is treat others the way I want to be treated, and yes it doesn't always work that way. I feel for you.
I applied for kitchen staff in Brooklyn site (NY) what can I expect?
No it's not, especially not the one in a certain main city in Oklahoma. Can't get into much detail because of my lawsuit, but to put it as safe as I can..... A certain manager claims that Servers pay the bussers wages because they tip out bussers a percentage of total sales of the restaurant for that shift. (But did you know Oklahoma is one of the last states in America to pay their servers $2.13 an hour because they receive tips? )and the bussers are paid $6 an hour, so they do this thing called Tip Share, where they make it look like they pay you $12 an hour, when really if the servers dont make enough tips in 4 hour shift that adds up too $12 an hour, they take your tips split a percentage to the bussers and then we all get super taxed on the tips. In most states Servers make atleast minimum wage most of the time more, and they get to keep all of their tips.
I wish I lived in Western Europe instead of the United States. I never knew that 43 states allowed restaurants to underpay servers. As if minimum wage wasn't underpayment enough.
Increase minimum wage laws for serving. Staff. Our minimum wage here in the United Kingdom applies to all workers. There is no separate wage for waiting staff. Tipping is less of a thing here and in some parts of Europe it’s actively discouraged. In Japan it’s something no one should ever do
I didn't know that Olive Garden owns Longhorn Restaurants I had no idea.
But their salad and breadsticks are so good.
Both companies are owned by a parent company, called Darden. They also own Cheddar's, Seasons 52, Yard House, Bahama Breeze and Capitol Grill. Olive Garden is by far the lowest in quality on the totem pole, but they are also the company's bread and butter, pun intended.
And Red Lobster!
@@C4Explore Red Lobster was sold in 2014. It was underperforming and now is owned by a chinese company
the part about burning yourself with the bread is no joke, i make soups and sauces along with bread and ive burned myself on that oven dozens of times. its not a bad spot or anything im just clumsy during a rush
I worked for Olive garden for 13 years. I brought that 3 of them2 different states They asked if they treat you like family Yes like the red headed step child that no 1 ever wanted. I work there because it was convenient It was a mile away from my house all 3 times It sounds like you talk to a lot of servers How about you ask the cooks Nothing is freshly made It's all frozen It's just heated up. The bread sticks are joke They toast them and put butter and garlic salt on it. I want to how much they paid the guy extra to say he loves his job there. The only send Managers. There's no chef's there. About racism There were no racism I worked up No sexism They're pretty good about that stuff So there's a positive I guess. But they just said It's not USIT's the minimum wage laws. They could fix that. Okay Now I'm gonna tell you how I feel about the restaurant The General manager did not know what was going on anytime Who knows on how she got the job that And all the other managers As competent as she was. If it was a mom and pop shop it would have closed. And remember I did not get fired I didn't quit it was because of I want what's going on in 2020. Would you tell the The managers who had there favorites Then they let them get away with everything And the people who worked really hard that didn't even notice. That's why I hate big chain restaurants all that give about is making the company money and not caring about the employees at all. But I was a dishwasher Host busser And everything in between. It will be nice if everybody was train a lot better.
fact, training is abismal. and management will tell you to worry about your performance and they will work on the team
Very hostile work environment...managers will upsell and make claims of "stringent and consistent policies", but there is very little communication and delegation. Not that it's unique to OG or Darden, but there is plenty of gaslighting, bigotry, and (mostly passive aggressive) hostility bred among employees and often aimed at newbies.
Drink the kool aid, and you'll just be busting your ass for exclusion and harassment as a reward.
How is the chicken made for the chicken Parmasan?? Does it come in frozen, pre breaded or does someone cut up chicken and bread it at the stores?
they hire non experience managers for a cheaper wage.
The kitchen is disorganized and they even told me, not to do my job. I know right? And tried to keep me till 2 M last night. I was gone brug f* olive garden
Olive garden is a good restaurant
I've had their unlimited salad bowl - don't mind seconds on that. ONE bread stick is absolutely all I want to eat of those. I'm not a high-starch person. Didn't know unlimited soups meant you can get a second type for your second soup... I'd try that, then - so far I've never ordered a second soup cause I thought it would be the same one again.
The regular food there - pedestrian. They're :okay" but not worth eating at in most cases.
Lol whenever I hear it's not that bad working somewhere the first thing I hear is if it isn't for the people lol sounded like me in the navy. If it wasn't for the people because that job sucked but the people will either make it or break it for someone
I knew the Darden marketing manager in Orlando and he had some funny stories about the old Italian lady they used in the OG commercials. She was all in on her way of cooking and constantly tried to get OG to change. She was really nice and outgoing
I live in Kissimmee Florida
"The real problem was the minimum wage laws "
Then pay above the minimum wage. It's a MINIMUM, not a MANDATED, wage. There's absolutely nothing stopping them from paying their employees more -- nothing but the seemingly endless abyss of corporate greed.
I worked in the restaurant industry for almost 30 years, and the server minimum never increased. In fact, several corporate places have made employees such as host staff "tipped" employees so they are paid the lower wage, then force the service staff to tip them out of their earnings. This is nothing more than a shameless attempt to have servers subsidize the restaurant's payroll, and it's unfortunately legal in many states.
If they don’t like the wage, they can leave. No one is forcing them to work there. They took the job based upon a mutually agreed upon wage. Get something better if you don’t like it.
@@R._Thornhill Which is what people are doing in droves. However, now certain people are complaining when their favorite restaurants are unable to keep staff or maintain service. Perhaps service staff are tired of being treated like domestic servants from some Victorian-era nightmare. Whether it's because of the pandemic or the years of abuse these workers have endured, the chickens have come home to roost.
@Michael Harley my point Sir is that no one is forcing anyone to work there. I worked as a waiter in a low-end restaurant for a couple of years, so I know what it’s like. No one forced me to work there, I did so under my own free will until I could find a better job.
I get paid almost 2 times minimum wage at Olive Garden 🤡
You need to do a "deep dive" to figure out whether working at a shitty minimum wage job being abused by superiors and treated like shit by customers?
I'm applying for a dishwasher job at OG.,What should I expect if hired?
I am a grumpy old man that hates being told shit like this
Just had the Chicken Alfredo,while I was out with my son .It was Pretty good .🍽🍷
Pay the people there money
Their
@@priusa8113
I had already sent it, Lol
There employees are the best in the restaurant industry.
I love Olive Garden foods. The breadsticks are awesome!
OG staff wages are crappy
Over worked and underpaid make any business a bad business, regardless of how great the people or food are.
i’m appalled they don’t just get a free freaking meal on shifts you work actually broke my heart LOL just applied but that’s one thing i love…free food
All that place has to offer is decent evoo to dip their bread in. They have no appetizers and the entrees are comparable to Applebee’s. No surprise. Franchise. Give your business to your local restaurant. They need you
Out of curiosity, which appetizers do you think would be nice to add onto the menu? Hypothetically, at least lol.
Worked for an armored car company in Tucson years ago, made pickups there, filthiest kitchen I ever saw.
Yeah, same at Greensboro OG. Why do they raise their prices?
Inflation man, those bribes to the health inspectors ain't getting any cheaper!
(But the trash bags are)
yeah, I'm a 4 yr server. and just no. almost none of this fits in a realm of reality. yes you get discounts on several other restaurants (i.e. bahama breezes or cheddars) it's true that if you can serve all
unlimited soup, salad, and bread sticks you could prob serve anywhere. yep we have to make the bread if it's not provided by a normally scheduled bread and salad prep "family member". and good lord feedback is treated like an attack on the management's ability as opposed to constructive feedback to greese the wheels for a better guest experience. those that take truly take pride in what they do are sometimes sidelined by personal opinions as opposed to performance.
The bread sticks are great,but the pasta is great and fresh, and the tastes and the ingredients are great.
Fresh haha it’s frozen
"California Courts" that explains everything...
Lmao this video came out right in the middle of the great resignation. I’m, how much did Mash get paid by Darden to make this? Olive Garden is a shit place to work.
That's putting it lightly, but yeah, you sure ain't wrong!
How is Olive Garden popular? I've done heard 2 people say they wouldn't go back or they didn't like it.
I don't care how fresh it is, I have never gotten another breadstick, no matter how many times you ask for it, and their meat sauce is awful...full of sugar...can't stand it.
It’s good
I love Olive Garden!! I know it's Americanized 🇮🇹 food because my best friend is Sicilian so I've tasted real 🇮🇹 food. But when I can't get her great 🇮🇹 meals that she learned from her Nona, I will go to Olive Garden. Service is great and the food is freshly made. But there is nothing better than real Italian cooking from a Nona in Jersey. She past away a while back. I miss her holiday cookies and Connolly she would make for me every year. 🙏's for my best friend and Italian sister and her grandma who loved me like I was her granddaughter too. Jen u had the best granny just like me.
Please tip your waitress and waiters. If they are giving good service. Alot of them are college students. I remember what that was like for me. That's why I always give a good tip 4 good service.
I put in my two weeks a couple days ago. After working there for nearly 2 years, I'll say if you order the S&S, please tip the server well if you ask for constant refills. The amount of work you have to put as a server (refilling drinks, attentiveness, running food and other coworkers, rolling silverware, helping others) is massive.
How about just put everything on a 'buffet bar' including fountain drinks instead? That way "servers" don't have to think they're entitled to a lot of $$ just because they bring me a basket of bread.
From personal experience the food is awesome and the servers work really hard to make customers happy! If you love Italian food it's the place to go 😋😁👍🏻
It's quite mediocre for anyone who has eaten real Italian food, If you like to eat like a pig, troughing there is ok, jeez this site is reading straight from Reddit.
Would love to visit your restaurant someday 🙏🤞🤟😘🤭🤔💯😉
they don't give the employee discount on all food the bread and spaghetti
I worked there 29 years ago. Back then they made all their food and had a fresh pasta maker right up frony
That sounds much better than the current setup, not made in house coming in various boxes that weigh up to 50 pounds. The ravioli, mozzarella sticks, sweet Italian doughnuts, zitti pasta, kids chicken tenders, are all frozen prior to deep frying.
Always loved Olive Garden. Only had one bad experience when they had changed managers a few years back. Took over an hour to get our food and it was cold. We have a place called Vs here in KC that's supposed to be authentic Italian food. Went one time. Never again. Way over priced tiny tables for 2 people and they served cold pumpernickel rolls??? When we asked for cheese they brought us a shaker of the parmesan like you get at pizza hut!!! That's not what I call authentic Italian. Miss Olive Garden. Haven't been since covid started.
Basically a buffet but better
I can't believe no one here has mentioned the smell. Olive Garden smells like where feet and parmesan cheese goes to die.
BRUHHH SO TRUE!
I NEVER GET TIRED OF EATING AT OLIVE GARDEN
The cure for that...work there, or just hang in the kitchen for an hour. Wish I could go back to just enjoying their okay food...but some things can't be unseen or unheard.
a lot of the stuff is froze
Been there twice, not rushing back. The service and food was adequate, but I don't care for Italian, even if the faux type.
It’s not parmesan, it’s Romano
It's the worst S@#$%thole I have ever worked in. They made me work with my finger bleeding on father's day, so yeah. I have a scar on my middle finger thanks to "my family". It's a buffet disguised as a restaurant. The infernal unlimited garbage it's a nightmare for any experienced of beginner server. You go 10 times to the table and your check is still $20. Guests are rude, unkempt and have no manners at all (one was watching porn at one of my tables). The cheese grater is the most disgraceful thing a human being can do to another. I would ask my guests: " You let me know when to stop" and they would reply: " Until your arm breaks". You politely laugh, but inside you are wishing them to choke on their stuffed ravioli.
I have nightmares until this day of that place. I wake up sweating in the middle of the night feeling that i forgot the cheese, the salad, the refill, I go to the kitchen and there are no breadsticks, the soup is empty and I have 5 refills and the food is already coming out...I hated every minute of my tenure there. Thankfully all the managers I worked with were fired after I was gone and now a new team runs the show, but the concept is still a disgrace for any person trying to make a living wage. My advice: NEVER work for that place. Go to a mid tier restaurant where there is nothing free and main courses are above $30 , and then move up to upscale dining.
But yeah, they do make their own sauces and soup fresh everyday....
Food services should know A server job is to serve the customer orders food.......
Made from scratch but also with more salt than a Minnesota snowplow season
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the pasta is only cooked once a day
Found this channel a few days ago fast becoming one of my favs
W are not Chefs we are line cooks.
This is nothing new. All ex-employees don't want to eat the food served there
I don’t go to Olive Garden
Dirty Garden, dirty hands dropping chicken on floor then on grill. Nothing homemade all deliciously delivered including soups and bread in bags
I don't see why they are so proud of there bread sticks. I would rather have a big piece of garlic bread,
Good news is, they're as easy and probably cheaper for you to make them as Olive Garden...
Step 1: Get some bread shaped in the form of a stick.
Step 2: Align desired amount on cookie sheet.
Step 3: Spread melted butter or oleo over the sticks.
Step 4: Sprinkle garlic salt (or desired seasoning) over sticks.
Step 5: Pop 'em in the oven til they're lightly browned.
Step 6: Remove, let cool, enjoy!
You don't have to be a great chef, just a decent re-heater...its worked for the OG for years!! 😉
food factory that pushes $2.00 meals for $20.00
Olive garden never claimed to be a authentic Italian place. every location is diffrent depending on the pride and work morality the coooks have, I loved working at the olive , I ove the food but again go to a nice location most of those are of course in pretty nice communities.
Had to jump on the band wagon and throw race in the at the last minute huh?
I don't know who created this, but in an attempt to make it seem like a horrible place they failed. Sounds like a great place to work and if you're inept enough to burn yourself on the hot breadsticks that's on you. I'm Italian and although the food is not really "authentic" it is good and I always enjoy my meals there.
Current employee of OG and it’s actually a horrible place to work, we are over worked and under paid and ppl really don’t tip yet they want perfect service
😂😂 they Absolutely do not make their own sauce in house
Tru
I never been
I can make pasta at home. I would not waste my time or money going to Olive Garden.
@5:44 💀💀
Pffffft. Sauces, soups, desserts, and breadsticks are all pre-made. The normal pasta is not homemade. The stuffed pastas and ravioli are frozen/pre-made. Someone lied to you.
Carbs.... 😞
Tons of fat, too.
This sucked