When you hear someone talk about a restaurant and they say that everything here is homemade, do they actually make the food at their home and then bring it to their restaurant? Why not just serve the food out of their house instead of transporting it to another place? Seems to me they would save a ton of money and not have to reheat everything.
It’s pretty easy to recreate Olive Garden dishes at home. All you have to do is go to your grocer’s freezer section and pick up a selection of Marie Callender’s entrees. Well, actually, Marie’s tastes better.
I first must state that Italian food is not my favorite, but if you like it that’s fine. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to an Olive Garden. I can tell you that it hasn’t changed a bit. A beautifully decorated restaurant with food that tastes like Marie Callender’s out of a microwave. I was really excited for the bread sticks they are proud of, however they tasted a bit odd. The olfactory aroma was similar to the inside of a brown paper bag.
The trick is, they fill you up on salad and bread so you won’t be able to finish your meal. Then you take the bagged boxes out in public and advertise to draw more people into the restaurant. By the time you finish your leftovers you realize it wasn’t really that big of a portion. The best part of the meal was the salad, however there was only one olive the entire bowl and not a garden of olives as I was expecting.
Service is still slow, but that’s because they are always crowded and fielding complaints from the guests. I heard someone a few tables over say their food was disgusting. There was a 10 minute delay in getting our child menus and a 15 minute delay between two halves of our table being served.
Someone from my party actually got sick from their meal. I’m glad my Tour of Italy didn’t finish it’s route at the bottom of my toilet bowl.
Daily Irritant 
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