I actually prefer Chili's unlimited soup, salad and chips & salsa lunch special for $6.79. My friend and I went there, one of us got that and the other just got a bowl of soup. We could both eat the chips so it worked out well, and is definitely cheaper than OG. Did I mention I'm not a big fan of OG? Ok, just making sure. Pugs P.S. Give me 30 breadsticks with alfredo sauce!
I waited tables at the OG for years. When I started there everything was made fresh in-house and I can honestly say the food was great. By the time I left, junk like the never ending pasta bowl had turned it into a fast food junk maching. The first year of the never ending promotion, they also included never ending chicken for fett alfredo. You'd get fat ass joe schmoe complaining that he it took too long to get a refill for his chicken alfredo bowl, not realizing that we actually had to grill the chicken. They dropped that aspect pretty quickly.
Sorry to go off topic, but has anyone tried the Macaroni Grill meal helpers. They comes with dry pasta, sauce and seasonings. I've tried 2 of them; the Garlic and Herb and the Creamy Basil one. They are AWESOME! and super easy to make and are the perfect portion size for 2 people. I highly recommend them.
Macaroni Grill just got sold by the Chili's group, btw... And Olive Garden = Old Garbage Disgusting. No thanks. Ever spent the $10 on pasta at a grocery store? That's all you can eat, with leftovers.
So... I went to go eat this today... with the mind-set of at LEAST eating 3 plates. The first plate they brought out for us was HUGE, and by the time I finished that one, I was stuffed (after also eating some breadsticks and soup). I didn't want to feel cheated, so I ordered the second one and they brought out a much smaller bowl. I ate a few bites and I was so full that I was suffering. I didn't get past 2... I suck. Olive Garden ownz me Oh well, at least I have a lot of leftovers and that Asiago Garlic Alfredo is pretty damn good...
I generally don't buy pasta at a restaurant because it is something I can cook up in about 5 minutes at home. It is quite literally the easiest meal to make at home other than a sandwich. For harder to make items, I will visit a restaurant, but pasta seems like a waste of money to me.
Exactly. Two things that are priced fairly high at restaurants and can be made easily and cheaply at home: pasta and salads. Not to mention that, at home, you have greater control over putting in low-fat or whole-grain ingredients that would still taste decent, since you have more choices. So when you go out, all health issues aside, order the fried stuff that is cheap there but a pain to make at home. Or the burritos/enchiladas that are hard to wrap at home. Etc.
Just a few replies from someone who has worked for OG for a long, long time... Yeah, you should have been charged for that salad. The limitless salad and breaksticks comes with the purchase of a meal, it's not for everyone at the table to eat off of... Nope, I have NEVER seen that happen at my restaurant. I hope you and whichever other servers were doing that got canned... Actually, salad is one of the areas where we have our highest waste costs. Servers over-portion the salads, don't ring in the refills like they're supposed to, and dump on way more dressing than they're supposed to. There's supposed to be a person making salads during volume hours, but most of the time they're not much better than the servers. I remember a few years back a high school football team came in one night and had a contest to see who could eat the most bowls. I'm not sure how many bowls the winner got down, but at least one of the losers wound up puking in the middle of the dining room. Charming.
Not to be rude but from the sound of your replies...... You take your job wayyyyyyyy to seriously to be working at a 2-star, mediocre, over-priced restaurant. I really hope you're a manager and not a server cause it would suck for the people that have you as a server.
haha! the money maker of the lunch og waiter. Pocket a ticket from a ssal customer and redrop it. If its cash, its gold. Disclaimer: I never worked lunches and didn't want to lose my job from a manager checking for saved tickets.
Servers at the OG don't have to run a ticket for soup, salad or breadsticks. So if a server saves a bunch of copies of soup and salad tickets, they can just "recycle" them, and pocket the whole check. Of course this only works when the customer is paying in cash.
I actually would want him as a server. Sure, maybe he wouldn't let us get away with extra stuff, but he would be professional about doing the things we were already paying for and doing them right. I don't mind someone following the rules; the rules also ensure that the customer has everything he/she needs and that clean habits are followed.
