r/olivegarden

I went to Olive Garden and the forks were really wrong. I know the three prongs is supposed to be better for pasta or something but I really just wanted a regular fork. This has convinced me to bring my own forks next time. I sound like a Karen but my salad tasted like a fork because the vibes were off. I still ate with the fork it just wasn't my thing. I'm wondering if anyone else has felt this way?

It's over. The shift from hell. How did everyone fair?

My mom is forcing me to call out tomorrow or throw me out of the house (she wants to get lunch 🧍‍♂️), do I have anything to worry about on the restaurant side of things? I’m psyching myself out to think I’m getting fired for this but could anyone give any insight to what will happen? In case you couldn’t tell I’m already stressed enough by my mom and knowing what could happen would really help that.

For context, my General Manager is a pedophile, doesn't understand how the restaurant scheduling works, misuses systems and takes advantage of employees, he also fired an employees for first-time PDR issue (forgot to check with a manager before serving a gluten-free dish).

I work at Olive Garden myself and would rather deal with this so no one else has to. Anyone able to help?

hey guys! i’m working 4-DBD on mother’s day and i just started a few weeks ago. i’m wondering what im looking at for tomorrow? i feel super confident in my position but im just wondering if im gonna make good money or if its just going to be pure chaos

Okay so Mother’s Day is insane, we all know that. But my service manager was working that window like it owed him money, yelling over the loud speaker, screaming for what he needed to get food out faster (respectfully), and just kinda MANAGING ya know. Then like the 2nd hour I’m there the big corporate guy (I think, I just know he’s my GMs boss) pulls up and takes over at the window. Bro is silent as a mouse. EVERYTHING is going Red on the screens. Quite literally everything starts to go wrong, he doesn’t know the Restaurant or the staff like at all really. The food runners were trying to get him off the window as well as they could without offending him because it felt like we all had to walk on egg shells around him. Bro barely broke a sweat, and had the nerve to blame my GM and other managers as they’re busting their ass to satisfy every guest. Just kinda ruined the whole night for every staff member on what’s supposed to be one of our best gratuity days of the year. I

Back when I was living out of my car in San Diego, I got invited to eat by a friend who also lived out of his car. He took us to Olive Garden, he paid for three of us total, him, myself and someone he owed a meal to. Anyways, he tells me just to cover the tip and I just figured I would make a good sized tip.

Since I was broke I was gonna try to get some extra breadsticks to take back to have to eat for later. So when we were done and got the check I told the waiter "I'll leave your tip here on the table" as I put a 20 dollar bill under the cup, and I asked if we could get some more breadsticks to go. The guy was super cool and brought out that big ass bag of breadsticks and just gave us the whole bag, probably like 12 breadsticks or something like that. He also gave us quite a few small chocolates. Just wanted to share this I thought that guy was cool for that.

Hey, Olive Gardeners. I’m in the mood to have pasta today, but I need help choosing. I’m currently in recovery from an eating disorder, and it’s really difficult to be confronted with how many calories are in a given dish. Unfortunately, Olive Garden labels the calories on their menus, and they’re almost impossible for me to ignore. If I look at the menu myself, I know I will start spiraling about how many calories are in the pasta, and I’ll end up not eating the pasta altogether. However, I am craving pasta, and I think this is an important step for me in recovery, so I thought maybe you all could help me choose? What are some of your favorite dishes? I like red meats and chicken, and I love Alfredo and cheesy things. I’d love to have a delicious pasta and live in ignorant bliss about the caloric content. Any suggestions help :) Thanks gang! <3

EDIT: Thank you, everyone. I hope I’m not being too sensitive, but I want to add something. While I’m sure all comments were made in good faith, it can be somewhat harmful to recommend less caloric options, tell me the caloric content of foods, and mention “correct” portions. I would rather not know how many calories I’m consuming or how much of a dish I “should” eat. The goal here is to allow myself to consume as much food as my body desires without thinking twice. One day I hope to be able to simply ignore caloric content or recommended portions, but for now I need to avoid the sort of content that makes me panic about what I’m eating. You can sort of think of it like a veteran with PTSD around loud noises. It would be awesome if that individual would be able to hear fireworks without having a panic attack, but until we reach that goal, it’s best to avoid setting off fireworks around him. I appreciate everyone trying to help. Just please air on the side of caution when mentioning nutrition info. I’ve spent so much time studying and analyzing and calculating exactly how many calories I’ve consumed and how many I’ve burned and how it affects my weight and how I’m going to mold my life around what I eat. I’m trying to get away from that sort of thing. Anyway, I ended up getting the steak Gorgonzola, and it was delightful. Thank you to everyone who shared their favorite dishes and gave recommendations. You all rock 💕💕

About a year ago I started a tactic in order to get better at the Disney's Lorcana Trading Card Game. Whenever I went undefeated at locals, I'd eat at Olive Garden to celebrate. This was intended to be a pavlovian effect, I'd naturally try to do better because I wanted Olive Garden, and going through droughts would make me just want it more. It kind of worked I'm not that much better but it's become a part of who I am.

I want to host a card game event at Olive Garden due to this. I've been brainstorming how to do this, weather I host an event where people win olive garden prizing, an event where we get olive garden catered, or an event where I just host the trading card tournament at the Olive Garden. I like this option because then people can get as much Olive Garden as they want with either the price of most meals baked into the price of entry for the event, or they just pay for entry for the event and have the option to consume olive garden at their own expense during the event.

I'm scared of approaching the staff though to ask about this because I feel they might call me the r slur. Is this something that has been done before at olive gardens you've worked at?

Okay so I have this coworker let’s call him steve. Steve has a history of making racist comments but also a history of writing statements on people if they hurt his feelings. Really weird combo but okay. On mother’s day Steve cracked open a red bull and it exploded in his face in front of me. Ya i cackled and said that was devine intervention. Literally walked away thought nothing of it. FOUND OUT that after i walked away he said “ what does she know about that she’s a lesbian and going to hell.”. This doesn’t bother me,i understand him to be an awful person, and he probably also said it because i, a woman, laughed in his face and embarrassed him. BUT do i take this to management to see if i can get him fired OR keep saying everything bad that happens to him at work is devine intervention and see if he tries to write a statement about it and then expose him then ? Whats my best move babes.

I feel like I see more negative things mentioned on here than positive, so I just wanted to highlight this. Was super sweet of them!

Hi everybody! I'm having an onboarding next week and was curious how many uniforms (shirt and pants sets) you guys have! I've already got 4 nice polos and expect to get 3-4 pants as well, will that be good? Thanks SO much!!

For context, I work 3 other jobs and I’m full time in school. Apparently just yesterday I was put on the schedule to work Mother’s Day as it is the busiest day of the year (so I’m told). I was unbeknownst that is it a required day to work due to never checking the app (since management doesn’t schedule me). I will be out of town starting that day and have tried talking to management. I doubt I’ll get anyone to cover so will I get written up and nothing bad will happen or how does that work?