Well, what did you expect ? It's corporate dining and its the wave of the future....WDT food critic Walter Seibel gave at best a passing grade to the new Olive Garden, and given the hype and expectation, his review was essentially an invitation to dine elsewhere.
I don't know Mr. Seibel but he seems to have all the fancy food nomenclature down pat, so I believe what he writes...From the fake Tuscany exterior to the crowded, chaotic interior, Walt and his friends were more impressed with their waitress than where she was working...Three forks for corporate America.
A couple three weeks back someone from Olive Garden called my office and said they wanted to send over some bread sticks and other things to City Hall....Appreciation for the warm welcome and they must not have realized their store is on the other side of the imaginary line....
Anyway, I was not interested due to dieting, but the rest of the office was so we set a date.....nothing came......out of curiosity a staffer called and another date was set up...No bread sticks...
I didn't care as at this stage in life I have finally realized the intimate relationship between bread and obesity. Since the sticks never arrived, our forks were unused.
Watertown Daily Times Dining at Olive Garden, with great expectations
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I had the same experience in a way at Applebee's tonight. One waitress sat us, another took our drink order, another took our appetizer order, a FOURTH delivered it. The second returned to get our entree order. Food was good, price was high. But its like chaos all the way. Waitresses kept checking back to see if we received what we had ordered, not knowing if another had delivered it. Very nice people. But please give us a waitress and have that person stick with us.
So no one goes to Olive Garden...because its too busy?
Fake everything. Fake Italian food. Fake service. Another dumbed-down joint sucking money out of Jefferson County.
Reviews of chains/franchises? When do we get the scathing review of he reopened State Street McDonalds? Or the Taco Bell at the mall food court?
I've eaten in plenty of 'local' eateries that weren't worth the wait, too.
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