Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

If you haven’t noticed already I rather enjoyed the drinks and they were cheap for what you get and very yummy. I go for the endless soup and salad for $10. It’s a perfect lunch date with myself. I can’t comment on the other food items. I just love the Zuppa Toscana soup and the drinks clearly. I give only 4 stars because it was a very slow service and took a little long for my food to arrive. I’m a server so I’m very patient but that was too long. Server was very nice and friendly though.

I have wonderful memories of what how great it was to go to Olive Garden and have delicious food (early 2000's). And it's that memory that tricks me every time I go back and give this place another chance. Now the food is just gross. I had the large stuffed shells, they weren't even cooked through. Our waitress was nice but not good at her job. Completely forgot our drinks to begin with and forget about refills. This place is bottom of the barrel now. The prices would make you think you are fine dining, because they are high. But nope, you're basically having a microwave dinner and it's palpable how much your waiter/waitress hates their job.

We had a nice lunch from the lunch menu. I had the endless soup and salad bowl which comes with their breadsticks. I choose the Zuppa Tuscany soup which I really enjoyed along with the Italian dressing for the salad. Others in the group choose the baked ziti which they said was the best they ever had.

I can’t even leave a star due to the fact that we went out to eat here last night and had the worst customer service experience I’ve ever had. Our waiter Richard, had one of the worst attitudes from the first 10 minutes of us being seated. He was very impatient while we were deciding on what to order. Brought us containers before we were even ready to go. We didn’t have much time to honestly enjoy our meal. I felt like we were being pushed out. While the tables around us seemed to be enjoying their meals and had great service. He over charged us and when we asked to see the menu he crumpled our receipt and brought us back what he had overcharged. Then asked if we were going to tip- we simply said no. We are not obligated to tip, had our service been better he would have gotten a tip. So we had asked for separate bills and when he brought the last bill back he threw the change on the table. We actually had this part on recording and ended up showing the manager.

Ambience is great. Slightly better designed than the average olive garden. Food taste was just as you would expect. We did not get bread sticks until the very end and only after asking multiple times. The lady serving us was very busy and not available for very long periods of time. Hated this experience.