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Michigan
5 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Overpriced crap
August 30, 2024

Do not waste your money and Time. Nothing gluten free, And they have made no attempts to solve the problem.i Will never ever go again.

Date of experience: August 30, 2024
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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So my family and I went here a few weeks ago. Everything was going great the food was fine and the service was too. Then we get home and then things take a turn for the worse. My wife was projectile vomiting for most of the night and continued to be sick for several days. It actually took her a week before she was able to keep anything down. It gets better in my party of 8 people 3 of us got this sick where work was missed and money was lost. I contacted the olive garden and was very polite and reasonable. It has been three weeks now and no one has called us back. Save yourself the time. Or don't and tell me how food poisoning feels later.

Date of experience: March 5, 2024
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Really slow service
December 28, 2022

Went with a party of 10 to Thousand Oaks venue, CA. Server very slow and only had 1 cold soup in first hour. Plus server had a false nail pop onto table by food - yuk. Previously always great service but may give Olive Garden a miss from now on.

Date of experience: December 28, 2022
Texas
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Had dinner here with 4 friends this week. Fantastic food and great server. The last meal I had at this restaurant was equally impressive. By todays standards, the meal was reasonably priced, with so much chicken and shrimp. I had enough to take home for another dinner next day. The Olive Garden seems to have the best servers. They are helpful, friendly and maintain a good sense of humor. They seem to genuinely want their customers to have a great experience. Great stuff guys! We appreciate you.

Date of experience: February 14, 2024
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Yesterday i went to olive garden with my family and friend, The food is very good but the white sauce makes you wanna vomit and my child threw up 4 times! If you wanna go just make sure you dont get pasta, never going again.

Date of experience: August 20, 2023
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Disappointed
October 9, 2023

Olive Garden in Framingham Ma has been the worst service ever.
Greeters unprofessional and inappropriate behaviors.
Socially discriminated against, lacking in social skills as a server to a customer. No empathy towards the disabled person.

Date of experience: October 9, 2023
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I went to the Olive garden by myself and waited almost an hour and 30 minutes. The line was not that long. This is not the first time I have walked out of Olive garden. I used to love eating at Olive garden but not the wait staff doesn't want to give you your salad they're rude to you and then they think that you owe them a big tip. They need to go back to the old ways where the customer was right not the wait staff

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
Kansas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No service
September 3, 2023

Four of us went to Olive garden west in Wichita ks. They seated us and we never seen a waiter. Went up to the hostess station and told them we hadn't been waited on, she said she would get someone on it. We waited another 15 minutes and got up to leave. There were 5 people standing at the hostess station. I told them we were going elsewhere since nobody would wait on us.

Date of experience: September 3, 2023
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Missing order
October 14, 2023

Last month (order for pick up)I made an order they missing the soup.
I made three orders this time they gave me soup but I was missing one of my entrees (chicken tortellini Alfredo) I am very disappointed

Date of experience: October 14, 2023
Florida
21 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Casual lunch dining
April 15, 2022

Remember when Olive Garden was a cute little date spot? Well it's more of a lunch depot for me. We used to frequent them for dinner when they had the Tuscan T-bone steak. Since those menu changes, the only thing that stayed the same was the soup and salad.

I usually get the chicken gnocchi which is a creamy based soup similar to clam chowder. I'll eat two to three bowls while enjoying bread sticks and salad on the side.

It's unlimited soup, so I'll take one or two bowls home as well. The soup is really comforting especially when you want meal with the same taste and flavor every time.

I've combined my soup with dessert, but I've also gone to Olive Garden for the dessert alone. The tiramisu, Italian donuts and cappuccino is delicious.

Depending on where I am going my menu selections will not change once I find something that I like. While the staff is nice, the ambience over all is not the same.

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Date of experience: April 15, 2022
Nevada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible experience
December 17, 2022

Worst experience ever with a manager at this store named Lawrence! I can not believe the way in which he spoke to us - so incredibly unprofessional that we had to demand another manager named Sunshine - Harold our server was great but it took us 3 hours to have a meal with 2 people. Unfortunately, it was just a horrible experience. Overall, Lawrence ruined the entire meal.

Date of experience: December 17, 2022
Massachusetts
19 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Website is amazing!
April 17, 2022

I love the Olive Garden website! It is so easy to order whether for to go, pick up, delivery or catering. I really enjoy the snip its of the menu displaying the yummy foods! Makes you so hungry :). I also love the fact that you can easily see when ordering the price, the image of the food/beverage, and even the nutritional information/calories. So easy to browse and order in.

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Date of experience: April 16, 2022
Alabama
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Carry what you can manage
September 4, 2022

Yesterday in Olive Garden Pensacola in front of Cordova mall server was carrying 2 food trays and drooped them behind me messing up my clothes, totally spoiled our evening and plans after dinner. Sad part was no one from management came to help him or asked us if we were OK.
Never going back.
Thank you
S. RAZA

Date of experience: September 4, 2022
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Stay away
May 11, 2023

Salad was OK but soup was watered down so much it was difficult to tell what the cheff was trying to make.

Wife's soup of the same name was different but not great. Wife's spagettie was oily, greassy AND TERRIBLE.

The meat balls were OK. And the bread was ok. Didn't offer oil and spices so asked for butter. We took a booth in the bar area rather than wait 30 minutes and that was a mistake. Not going back for a LONG time.

Date of experience: May 11, 2023
Georgia
9 reviews
11 helpful votes
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I went to Olive Garden to celebrate my birthday a few days ago. The wait time wasn't long, my server was very attentive and polite, it didn't take long for my food to arrive and my appetizer and entree was delicious. The restaurant was clean, the seating was perfect and the atmosphere was great. I would definitely eat another meal here in the future.

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Date of experience: April 29, 2022
Arkansas
6 reviews
11 helpful votes
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It's funny how past events at restaurants can put such a bad taste in your mouth that you won't go back.

I ate at our local Olive Garden about a year ago but a few years before that I had such bad service that I just don't want to pay for that. It's not cheap for the microwave dinner and when a grumpy old woman serves everyone around you and you wait almost a hour for your menu (I had to get up from the table and physically get in her way to just ask her for a menu and maybe a glass of water) you just don't want to do that again.

Date of experience: February 7, 2017
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My opinion, the shrimp scampi tasted bad, old, tasteless, mushy, and I believe were old leftovers. The noodles are normally long; these noodles were cut up extremely small and the asparagus looked dull and an odd green. I wouldn't recommend this restaurant to an animal, let alone a human. I did not enjoy my meal. Learn how to cook. Shameful!

Date of experience: August 21, 2022
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I am almost 11years old, but even I can see that this was nasty. Dust bunnies everywhere, stunk like puke, waiters were just standing around, and there was mold on the vents over our table.

Date of experience: December 17, 2023
Hawaii
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Sadly overrated
December 3, 2023

The best part were their servers. I had eggplant parmigiana, salad with terrible dressing, iced coffee which was supposed to be plain but wasn't. Their appetizer of calamari was excellent. I really don't know why it's so popular. Their marinara actually was good but a little tangy.

I can honestly say that if I never stepped foot in another Olive Garden, I wouldn't be sorry.

Date of experience: December 3, 2023
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Online cancellation?
November 23, 2022

Why can't I cancel my order online? Very inconvenient, especially since I ordered food online for Thanksgiving, only for it to jump to the day after Thanksgiving because the restaurant is conveniently closed the day we need the food. I paid to feed an army, so what's the point of getting the food on the day we won't need it? Who's going to eat the food? If I can rate Olive Garden zero stars, I WOULD!

Date of experience: November 23, 2022

Overview

Olive Garden has a rating of 2.1 stars from 44 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Olive Garden ranks 253rd among Restaurants sites.

service
18
value
17
shipping
4
returns
4
quality
15
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