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That’s the place with the cutesy faux-Italianico names for their “food”?
Wait, this is the Olive Garden in the United States of fucking America that is saying this? Good, their food sucks anyhow. If I go chain Italian, it’s Macaroni Grill for me.
Stupid like this should be not only visible, but painful as well.
I’ve been distracted at Olive Garden by:
—A n00b waiter dumping an entire tray full of drinks on a customer’s lap (not mine).
—The little paper “THUR” tag, crusty noodle edges, and black hair in my pasta alfredo.
Perhaps Olive Garden management would be “disrupted” by a nationwide boycott of their entire chain by all Old Glory loving Americans???
Couldn’t hurt.
Olive Garden has apologized and blamed it thus:
I always thought if there was one place where you could count on people knowing company policy it would be the corporate office. Then again, maybe #OWS got in and answered that call instead.
And since the one really good local Italian place shut down last year, my wife and I are a little light on choices anymore. Lots of new little non-kid-oriented pizza places have opened around here lately, but only one of those seems to offer non-pizza Italian food.
That flag is definitely disruptive.
As soon as I see it on the street, it starts pestering me for spare change and/or demanding that I buy it a PowerBall scratch-off.
And it seems to have enveloped a hobo.
It moved over by the 34 and 34 connector McGeehee. There is also a fabulous place just north of 34 conector and 29. I mean really good. Like, can’t believe it’s down here good.
Olive Garden always made me want to throw up, so no big whoop.
To their credit, Corporate didn’t throw the local management to the wolves. Damning with faint praise, I know, but I feel I have to acknowledge a home office that admits it screwed up.
Donald: I was talking about Vinnie R’s. The sign they put in the window of their place across from Yamaha said they were Out Of Business.
What place are you talking about?
Oh, you must mean Mama Lucia’s. Chris and I ate at their Thomas Crossroads location — the one that was Buffalo’s and is now Brick House — but for some reason it didn’t really appeal to us the way Vinnie’s did. Partly it was the prices, but also I really lurrrrved Vinnie R’s lasagna.
three years ago my boss person went on this kick where we were all gonna go to the Olive Garden in Burbank for lunch one day… he was very persistent
so were we
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the Olive Garden. I’m sure the food is fine. I ate there once for a rehearsal dinner.
I don’t have any illusions about it being Italian food, though.
I’m sure it’s fine I ate there once cause it was close to a hotel but if you’re in the middle of Los Angeles and you have about a million places you haven’t tried yet then going to Olive Garden is criminally shameful
I suspect the OG policy/”miscommunication” on this was more in the vein of “We don’t want anyone in our store to be offended in any way by anything” rather than “we dislike the American flag”.
And agree with the kudos for not throwing the local store under the bus.
I am surprised the Italian Government isn’t asking to ban Red, White and Green displays in Olive Gardens.
If you like to eat that crap, I bet I can find a decent Italian restaurant within 30 miles of your OG with far better food and comparable prices. And without a wait.
However, their lemon cake is truly great.
We can never afford to have dessert there, but my wife brings home some of her dinner and at least one bread stick. Every time.
So, we only go when we see they’re advertising the never-ending pasta bowl. More affordable, in the kind of way that would make Mayor Bloomberg keel over dead.
I admit to liking Olive Garden’s faux Italian, but I like it because it is faux Italian (and our nearest OG is always very good about getting the food right, hot, and on-time). If I want closer-to-actual Italian there’s Frankie, Johnnie, and Luigi Too’s for that.
This is just dumb.
I like the Olive Garden too. What would all of us Krauts and Scandis in the upper midwest do without it?
It’s like Red Lobster that way. Sure, there’s better. Way better. But where the hell are you going to find better in the middle of the fricken continent, eh?
All this Itai talk makes me wonder whether geoffb ever got around to that Puttanesca?
Best Italian I ever had was at a place called Volcano Joe’s in Hahnenklee, Germany, btw.
Second best is a place called I Gatti in Los Gatos, CA. Place is owned an operated by a really nice Lebanese (I think, maybe Egyptian —I’d ask frau Schreiber, but she went to bed hours ago) family.
If you’re ever in the south bay, pop in. Seriously.
Best Italian place I know burned down. It was south of Ogg hall in Madison. Called Josie’s.
Second best place was my friend’s gramma’s house. She also burned down. With old lady death.
These things happen.
Forgot about Vinnie R’s. It was pretty good.