. "A bad experience that was made good.\n\nI enjoyed a late dinner with my girlfriend at this Olive Garden and the evening started off a bit rocky. After being seated by a nice hostess, we were introduced to our server. While she seemed competent, she also looked a bit busy. Now, the restaurant wasn't actually THAT busy, but the feeling we got was that she wouldn't be around much throughout the night. \n\nThat turned out to be the case. \n\nAfter getting our drinks and taking our order, she never came back. We ended up getting another server (not sure he actually was one). He was nice, trying to make things better for us as he was clearly new to the whole thing. Because he came in during the middle of the order, he was unaware that we hadn't gotten our soup and salad when our main entr\u00E9es came out.\n\nWhen I noted it to him, he promptly went and got them for us -along with more breadsticks and drink refills. I appreciated his effort, despite the shortcomings of the server before and the mix up in terms of us not getting our soup and salad. We noted his good performance to the manager after everything was finished. \n\nA bad evening turned decent I would say. It could have been MUCH worse. I'm not sure if we will be back, mainly because of the location. But at least they turned a potentially bad evening into a decent one."^^ . "1"^^ . "2015-12-06T00:00:00"^^ . "3"^^ . "1"^^ . . "1"^^ . .