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Olive Garden adds $10 Italiano Burger to menu in attempt to draw more customers

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TwntyOneTwlv

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I had no idea they were doing poorly. The ones by me are always packed. Always.

Also, GAF hates every food place it seems. Olive Garden is always good when I go.
 
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kirblar

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TwntyOneTwlv said:
I had no idea they were doing poorly. The ones by me are always packed. Always.

Also, GAF hates every food place it seems. Olive Garden is always good when I go.
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Hating on Olive Garden isn't just a GAF thing. It's because it's just generic Italian food that's completely overpriced.
 
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Fenderputty

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Olive Garden is terrible. There menu is 80% chicken dishes. Real Italian food is so so so so much more.

I did enjoy there Tuscan potato sausage soup, but my wife replicated it so one less reason to ever go.
 
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Valnen

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freenudemacusers said:
I've had variations of this using bisquick and the are quite good. Maybe not precisely the same, but they capture the idea, which is basically a cheesy herb biscuit.
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"Capture the idea" is not the same as making a replica at home, which is what these recipes often claim to do. And quite frankly won't satisfy a craving either =p.
 
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GhostWriter24

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Fenderputty said:
Olive Garden is terrible. There menu is 80% chicken dishes. Real Italian food is so so so so much more.
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Rodney McKay

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I only really like Olive Garden's Pasta Fagioli soup and breadsticks. Last time I got it from there they barely cooked the breadsticks, so it was disappointing. :(

I used to love their Lasagna, but I found a WAY better Italian place near me that is much higher quality (not that it would be hard, haha).
 
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sooperkool

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The Albatross said:
Olive Garden is horrible. Terrible menu, horrible food. They've been going on this "salad and bread sticks" schtick for 15 years. Their salad is disgusting. The bread sticks are buttery, salty, and garlicky, so sure, they taste fine. But you can't sell a goddam restaurant on bread sticks.



Nope. Cheesecake Factory is the best of the major national chain restaurants. This doesn't make it good but i think it's still the best of the major chains.

For most over-rated major national chain... I think I gotta go with PF Changs. PF Changs is horrible, it's expensive and their food is sickening garbage. 5 - 10 years ago I would have said that Outback is the most over-rated of the big chains, but now people (at least around me) now properly perceive Outback as being "slightly higher end Chili's." Or, Chilis + $5.
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daveo42 said:
Their issue isn't a lack of variety in their menu, it's that everything on their menu is terrible. There's pretty much no reason to go to Olive Garden unless you're given an gift card.

If you have to eat chain Italian food, try Ccarrabba's. It's actually decent and serve actual Italian food.
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This is funny because Outback and Carrabba's are owned by the same company and use a lot of the same ingredients. Bahama Breeze as well.
 
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BattleMonkey said:
Yup, their food is crap, only good thing is the unlimited bread and salad.
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I like their Tuscan Soup too (I have to add a lot of pepper to it though). Only time I ever eat there anymore is for their Soup/Salad/Breadsticks. For the price it's not bad.

I'd never buy a burger there.
 
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rrs

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For all the stuff I had at olive garden, I'd say just get the unlimited breadsticks/soup/salad nothing else is worth it. Also if I want to spend $10 on a burger, I'd get Five Guys and call it a day.
 
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Persona7

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I'd rather just go to a burger joint but it is a option for those who don't want the typical shit olive garden menu.


The breadsticks though...
 
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CrankyJay

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TwntyOneTwlv said:
I had no idea they were doing poorly. The ones by me are always packed. Always.

Also, GAF hates every food place it seems. Olive Garden is always good when I go.
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Same here. Always packed. We had a $20 gift card and went and it was decent. I'm all about dat salad and breadsticks

The food is slightly overpriced.
 
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Pimpwerx

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I actually like Olive Garden. Their prices are too high for the quality of food IMO. That's why I rarely go there, eventhough I like their menu. PEACE.
 
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dr3upmushroom

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One just opened in my town. It's had an explosion of strip malls in the past ten years and it the center of most of the commerce in town, anyways I drive by it every once and while and find it odd that people treat it like a "fancy place", it seems like a horrible trend of restaurants where everything is ruled by corporate chains, and most hometown places close.
 
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Kemal86

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I used to really like Olive Garden, but in what seems to be a perpetual curse for me, they took the one thing I LOVED off the menu about 3 years back.

RIP in peace Chicken and Gnocchi Veronese.
 
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neobiz

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Slayven said:
Meanwhile Red Lobster done fucked the game up.

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I bought this over the weekend and they were incredible. So good. I haven't had Red Lobster since getting a hold of a bad lobster pizza almost 10 years ago and really missed the biscuits.
 
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kick51

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So I got my Cheddar Bay biscuit mix in the mail and made some yesterday.

You know how Japanese people sometimes have to get therapy after visiting Paris for the first time, because it's so far below their expectations that they're traumatized? (if you didn't, now you do)


Well, GAF....
 
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Valnen

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kick51 said:
So I got my Cheddar Bay biscuit mix in the mail and made some yesterday.

You know how Japanese people sometimes have to get therapy after visiting Paris for the first time, because it's so far below their expectations that they're traumatized? (if you didn't, now you do)


Well, GAF....
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Ouch. So it's nothing like the stuff in the actual restaurant? Kind of expected that but I'm still disappointed.

Also is this what you're referring to? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
 
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Snkfanatic

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kick51 said:
So I got my Cheddar Bay biscuit mix in the mail and made some yesterday.

You know how Japanese people sometimes have to get therapy after visiting Paris for the first time, because it's so far below their expectations that they're traumatized? (if you didn't, now you do)


Well, GAF....
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Ya I wouldn't expect it to be like the restaurant. Close but not the same.
 
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CrankyJay

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I got the boxed shit from Amazon the other day...it's way better than our home made attempts, that's for sure.

It's that garlic butter mixture you brush the biscuits after baking that makes these....
 
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