So last night it was my daughters birthday. Me..."Where do want to go for dinner?" daughter..."OLIVE GARDEN." I smiled and said "great." OOOF - of all the places in Vegas. I typically do not frequent corporate run restaurants - but this was about the kid today.
So it is busy with people who have little appreciation for Italian food and lacking any sense of adventure. We got a table after about a 5 minute wait. The waiter was very friendly - but along with tips I think these people are paid on commission, too.
The suggestive selling and everything is understandable but at this place the upsells are obnoxious. The waiter brings the bottle of wine and he must have asked us for dessert 10 times. Do you want alfredo sauce with the bread sticks? Is it free? No. Then No. (it used to be).
Then as he is taking our drink order he asks if we are ready to order. C'mon guy let us sit down and relax a second ---- geeeez. We are not cattle here.
Then the salad. They actually put one olive in the salad for each person at the table...oooo generous. I can go to subway and get2 handfulls of olives if I want! I think they are counting the croutons too!
So the Food - well it is the Olive Garden, so I ordered the lasagna. This is not a meat lasagna BTW - it is a cheese lasagne with meat sauce on top and the meat in the sauce is scant. It was perfectly flat - was this thing made at a factory somewhere else? It was a birthday dinner so I smiled and ate half of the $14 pile of of of of of ....
The food is just so lackluster. The corporate influence is just too much. I avoid this place at all costs, I hope my daughter appreciates the sacrifice I made last night... greater than any gift!