Olive Garden’s unlimited Soup & Salad

[LocimusPrime]

Hey guys/gals I haven't been to an Olive Garden in ages, but remember they had endless soup and salad as well as breadsticks.

I googled this and found a bunch of threads and reviews stating that although it's advertised as endless, it's really not. I read one comment, where a guy was cut off after 4 bowls of soup, and 3 salads and 10 breadsticks! That's hardly endless and quite frankly you'd be starving still.



Does anyone have any personal experience with this?

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Hey guys/gals I haven't been to an Olive Garden in ages, but remember they had endless soup and salad as well as breadsticks.

I googled this and found a bunch of threads and reviews stating that although it's advertised as endless, it's really not. I read one comment, where a guy was cut off after 4 bowls of soup, and 3 salads and 10 breadsticks! That's hardly endless and quite frankly you'd be starving still.



Does anyone have any personal experience with this?

If you eat all that and you're still hungry you're either Andre The Giant or a hog. LOL!

The breadsticks themselves are filling... Especially after 10 of them!

 

[Reality]

Hey guys/gals I haven't been to an Olive Garden in ages, but remember they had endless soup and salad as well as breadsticks.

I googled this and found a bunch of threads and reviews stating that although it's advertised as endless, it's really not. I read one comment, where a guy was cut off after 4 bowls of soup, and 3 salads and 10 breadsticks! That's hardly endless and quite frankly you'd be starving still.



Does anyone have any personal experience with this?

I remember reading a couple of articles about them (the business side) a couple of years ago where the restaurant chain was losing money every quarter because of wasting food and being too generous with servings and and such. They started auditing their entire food making process and eliminating those things, which helped the company turn around financially. I would probably expect that to mean there is no "unlimited" anything any more, but that's just a guess.

 

[LocimusPrime]

If you eat all that and you're still hungry you're either Andre The Giant or a hog. LOL!

The breadsticks themselves are filling... Especially after 10 of them!

I'm about to test it. Lol

 

[LocimusPrime]

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUse...98513-Olive_Garden-Broken_Arrow_Oklahoma.html

 

[LocimusPrime]

This one got me scared

 

[MichaelWinicki]

This one got me scared

That's dated... 2008.

Maybe the 4 bowl thing has been in affect that long.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

And it's not like their bowls of soup are small.

 

[LocimusPrime]

And it's not like their bowls of soup are small.

I can't recall how big they are. Screw it that places is cheap anyways. Ima try it and if they stop me I'll report back.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I can't recall how big they are. Screw it that places is cheap anyways. Ima try it and if they stop me I'll report back.

There ya go!

 

[BigStar]

I remember reading a couple of articles about them (the business side) a couple of years ago where the restaurant chain was losing money every quarter because of wasting food and being too generous with servings and and such. They started auditing their entire food making process and eliminating those things, which helped the company turn around financially. I would probably expect that to mean there is no "unlimited" anything any more, but that's just a guess.

I agree and when advertised as such they intentionally take their time to bring out the 2nd rounds, etc. Just noticed that when I went to Outback awhile back. It wouldn't hurt us as a country, just don't turn into French portions

 

[yimyammer]

a guy was cut off after 4 bowls of soup,

 

[yimyammer]

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUse...98513-Olive_Garden-Broken_Arrow_Oklahoma.html

 

[LocimusPrime]

Lol lol

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

The Olive Garden is like the Wal-Mart of Italian Restaurants. Its decent but don't expect much. I've seen people go into a buffet that offered free drink refills and order 1 coke between 4 people, and keep getting refills because everyone was drinking out of the same glass.

 

[Shinaoi]

There was a thread on Reddit one time where they asked people in the restaurant business how much profit was made. There were a lot of replies from pizza and Chinese food buffets workers. They basically said at Chinese food it would take like 8 full plates of meat to break even. Pizza was basically a great market because each pizza was like 1.50 or 2 dollars in price almost all of it being cheese.

But as far as all you can eat. I’m just a regular dude not even that big. I went to all you can eat cat fish at cotton patch and when you ask for more, they bring one more piece out. I literally felt guilted or inconvenienced out of eating what I could have. Within reason, it felt less like all you can eat and more like here’s two pieces. Don’t order more.

 

[RJ_MacReady]

I can't recall how big they are. Screw it that places is cheap anyways. Ima try it and if they stop me I'll report back.

 

[CyberB0b]

Probably liability reasons from the sodium. 10 bread sticks is enough to kill a rhino.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

If they don't want you to eat all you can eat than they shouldn't advertise as such.

 

[maxdallasfan]

I'm the unlimited king at restaurants. Every restaurant I've ever gone too I get unlimited glasses of water. That's right, unlimited. And it's free too. Boom!