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Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug

FrankieGoes posted:

TBF Olive Garden salads suck. If it was Ruby Tuesdays id be interested in unlimited salads.

The gently caress is wrong with this one. Their salads and dressing are so good they sell it in the stores.

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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

olive garden is legit the worst

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

i'm definitely gonna end up eating at olive garden because of this thread. this fucken sucks

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Philthy posted:

The gently caress is wrong with this one. Their salads and dressing are so good they sell it in the stores.

I haven't been to olive garden in years but at ruby Tuesday you can make your own salad and they have things like actual veggies on their bar. I imagine olive garden salad is lettuce with some shredded carrots, croutons, and half a cup of dressing on it

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Man I want some fuckin salad now. :yum:

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Philthy posted:

The gently caress is wrong with this one. Their salads and dressing are so good they sell it in the stores.

The Olive Garden stores?

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Philthy posted:

The gently caress is wrong with this one. Their salads and dressing are so good they sell it in the stores.
they're mediocre at best. there are things they sell "in the stores" that are not necessarily good.

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Philthy posted:

The gently caress is wrong with this one. Their salads and dressing are so good they sell it in the stores.

lol jesus christ

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Salad bars are so gross. I have no problem with their preparation, but you're basically putting your health in the hands of every filthy coughing moron or sneezing kid too short for the guard that came before you. Just eat a normal person amount of food.

epsilon
Oct 31, 2001


Falun Bong Refugee posted:

Salad bars are so gross. I have no problem with their preparation, but you're basically putting your health in the hands of every filthy coughing moron or sneezing kid too short for the guard that came before you. Just eat a normal person amount of food.

No + gently caress you

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000

I LITERALLY SLEEP IN A RACING CAR. DO YOU?
p.s. ask me about my subscription mattress
Ultra Carp

Twinty Zuleps
May 10, 2008

by R. Guyovich
Lipstick Apathy
Is it Olive Garden where the salad is one bigass bowl with crappy tongs that they just set in the middle of the table and everybody has to pull out what they want? And those crappy tongs can't get at half of it so if you wanted that cherry tomato, gently caress you. If you wanted that leaf with some actual dressing on it gently caress you because someone else grabbed it with their dirty loving hand already.

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

Wulfolme posted:

Is it Olive Garden where the salad is one bigass bowl with crappy tongs that they just set in the middle of the table and everybody has to pull out what they want? And those crappy tongs can't get at half of it so if you wanted that cherry tomato, gently caress you. If you wanted that leaf with some actual dressing on it gently caress you because someone else grabbed it with their dirty loving hand already.

yes this is exactly what eating a salad at olive garden is like.

Escape From Noise
Jul 27, 2004

I'mma eat so much pasta people will think I'm vomiting blood, but it'll just be marinara.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
They ought to do this as a running tally of a set number of unlimited pasta meals they'll sell for the season for the entire chain. 150k Unlimiteds

Every store gets an LED monitor that is connected to a server that monitoring every sold Unlimited Pasta in real time. As the days unwind, you get people freaking the gently caress out in the Olive Garden, getting on their phones, "For fucks sake, Bill, get Gladys and the kids down to the OG right now. The screen here says that the whole chain only has 1000 Unlimiteds left and they're dropping at about a rate of 10 a minute! This is your last chance! Do you need me to order for all of you! drat IT, I've got to call my parents. Call me back!"

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Didn't they get bad PR over not salting their pasta water companywide? That is Pasta 101 poo poo, seriously.

MrWillsauce
Mar 19, 2015

I just like the feeling of noodles between my toes so yeah you bet I'm buying one and using the hell out of it!

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR
arms sweaty

edit

i didnt even get the shittiest reference right, time to go into my ubuntu powered research lab and repeatedly listen to eminem songs again

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

Salad bars are so gross. I have no problem with their preparation, but you're basically putting your health in the hands of every filthy coughing moron or sneezing kid too short for the guard that came before you. Just eat a normal person amount of food.

oh look at me I'm a goon I'm too good to share saliva with the masses

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
Pasta is so cheap and easy to make though...

Dignity Van Houten
Jul 28, 2006

abcdefghijk
ELLAMENNO-P


I'm gonna sit next to a potted plant, order the lobster pasta, scrape off the lobster into my bag and low key dump the pasta into the plant.

ANOTHER

Rinse, repeat until you have enough lobster that you can go home and make some wicked lobster rolls. Let the pasta rot and fester, no one at Olive Garden will notice

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Germstore posted:

oh look at me I'm a goon I'm too good to share saliva with the masses

We weren't all raised with your mom's values.

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

RecoomesSexyRear
Jul 18, 2003

does anyone know if red lobster does this too im asking for a friend

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Wake me up when Chili's offers an unlimited southwestern eggrolls coupon.

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"

Jerk Tannon posted:

No gabagool I see

That caught my eye too, and it's loving garbage

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

Gone Baptizin posted:

does anyone know if red lobster does this too im asking for a friend

You missed it...
https://youtu.be/QXrFKksZeRo?t=87

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy
I used to work at OG, and we had guy who was suing us because the Pasta Bowl promotion made him fat, but that never stopped him from coming in every night and staying for hours. For his refills he refused to let us bring him the smaller bowl of pasta, and demanded he keep getting full sized plates with extra sausage and meatballs. He also tipped like poo poo.


To get out of his chair (he needed the special chair with no arms on it) he would rock back and forth until he gained enough momentum to propel him out of his seat.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

JakeP posted:

I used to work at OG, and we had guy who was suing us because the Pasta Bowl promotion made him fat, but that never stopped him from coming in every night and staying for hours. For his refills he refused to let us bring him the smaller bowl of pasta, and demanded he keep getting full sized plates with extra sausage and meatballs. He also tipped like poo poo.


To get out of his chair (he needed the special chair with no arms on it) he would rock back and forth until he gained enough momentum to propel him out of his seat.

You guys should have done like a work slowdown until he stopped coming.

TheShazbot
Feb 20, 2011

cool, I don't eat at garbage chain restaurants

Return Of JimmyJars
Jun 24, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

MeatwadIsGod posted:

Didn't they get bad PR over not salting their pasta water companywide? That is Pasta 101 poo poo, seriously.

Not only that, they did it to save money. To save money on salt which you can literally purchase by the truckload for a not significant amount of money.

They took that money and instead spent millions of dollars per year extra to purchase custom to go containers and to go bags with their company branding on it.

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

You guys should have done like a work slowdown until he stopped coming.

I wish. Getting him in your section meant you were going to make like 33% less for the night since he would take up one of your 3 tables for the entire night. Then you would also have to stay late and wait for him to finish before you could leave. He was sue happy so management just wanted us to appease him.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
I'm honestly surprised they boil their pasta in water and it's not just dumped from a bag just like one from the supermarket frozen section but larger and clear.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Return Of JimmyJars posted:

Not only that, they did it to save money. To save money on salt which you can literally purchase by the truckload for a not significant amount of money.

They took that money and instead spent millions of dollars per year extra to purchase custom to go containers and to go bags with their company branding on it.

Hey, that one cent they are saving per 20 or so servings really adds up.

xjohnson
Sep 7, 2006
Johnson?
Young Orc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDHidMlViMc

Chill la Chill
Jul 2, 2007

Don't lose your gay


$100 for 2 months' worth of food sounds pretty good.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
i beg your pardon
i never promised you an olive garden
along with the breadsticks
there's gotta be a little pasta some time
when you binge you gotta purge so live and let live
or let go oh-woah-woah-woah
i beg your pardon
i never promised you an olive garden

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Chill la Chill posted:

$100 for 2 months' worth of food sounds pretty good.

5k per month from diabetes medication puts a real dent in the savings.

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

I'm honestly surprised they boil their pasta in water and it's not just dumped from a bag just like one from the supermarket frozen section but larger and clear.

all their sauces come in bigass cans

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Manchild King
Oct 22, 2010
Misogynistic, self-absorbed, incredibly unfunny asshole. BLOCK ME or I will steal your face for creepy fetish porn!
I have heard of this restaurant from a US sitcom titled "The Big Bang Theory". There's a man called Howard who has a mother that is too disgusting to be shown on screen, and she loves the place. If I ever visit the US of A I will need to check the place out.

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