Why Olive Garden Is Struggling
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2020
- When you think of free breadsticks, unlimited salad, and pounds of pasta one name comes to mind - Olive Garden. But the Italian eatery, known for its $5 take home meal, has fallen on hard times as the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the restaurant industry. In response, the casual dining chain trimmed its menu, pivoted to take out, and cut costs. But are those changes enough for Olive Garden to survive the pandemic and offset the overall decline of the dine-in restaurant experience?
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Why Americans Love Olive Garden
“They could go to Panera for a fraction of the price”
Have you been to Panera? It’s $22 for a half sandwich / soup, and you can bus your own table when you’re done 😂
I saw a comment that called Panera "fancy hospital food", and I still haven't recovered. 😂
He’s right....Panera is a ripoff. I’m sure they pay the early 20-somethings that work there garbage wages, too.
thus i havent been to Panera in over 10 yrs
Lol right
Finally! Someone who points out Panera's expensive menu!! And you don't get any real service. The real Question: Can't we all make sandwiches on our own?!?
Coming from a lower middle class upbringing I remember thinking this place was fancy eating haha
Not an American and I thought the same.
I think most of us thought that... I remember thinking Applebee's and Chili's and Olive Garden is like the place to go for Birthdays and special occasions... LOL. A lot of people still do.
I think that mentality started to change with the popularity of the food network, where chefs and foodies who were smug about chain restaurants really rubbed off on Americans. A lot of the most popular shows were about showing how these special mom and pop restaurants went the extra mile to bring real good food, and these chain restaurants weren't it.
Also, internet at YELP, really solidified the popularity of that foodie scene... It was now super cool and the popular thing to do, to find these small mom and pop places only the select few knew about. And they make it popular to form lines and it became popular to wait in line for popular food items... LOL.
@@tigerjonn Unless you want to spend an arm and a leg for fancy foods with microscopic portion sizes.
I could care less about how celebrity chefs cook. They put on a show so they can please their ego.
@@mackpines Celebrity chefs dont even have restaurants in the vinicty of majority ot Americans...
The food network shows with celebrity chefs almost never show off their restaurants....
But they do show off their recipes and secrets...
And majority of Americans learned from Ramasays and Emerils and Flays, that making high end restaurant quality food that is much better than any olive garden is easily achievable, with just a little knowledge and work.
I swear when I grew up, during the 80s and 90s, making carbonara at home was not really the norm, majority of americans didnt even know what carbonara really was...
Now it's just a regular recipe anyone knows.
Plus, everything is online now, any recipe y ok u can think of is all online...
If you want to impress diners now, you really have to to above and beyond...
Agreed...as a teen, if a guy took you to Olive Garden, he had money!
CNBC: Why is Olive Garden struggling?
Anyone who has ever eaten at Olive Garden understands that it’s basically fast food quality meals and fast food quality service in a slightly nicer than fast food looking building.
At least at my local OG, that's just not the case. Food's been pretty good, and service has been fantastic.
I agree. The OG food quality has definitely gone down on several dishes from 20 years ago.
Every time i eat olive garden, i have the worst heartburn of my life. No amount of spicy food or fried stuff can give it to me that bad.
Actually their food is good! It's the wait time and service that's the problem 💯✔
As someone who has worked there for a year and still does I can confirm this
When I was little, I hated olives. My parents would threaten to take me to Olive Garden for dinner if I misbehaved because I thought Olive Garden had nothing but olives on the menu.
LOL
Ahhhhhh good memories... wish I could go back to those times
That is hilarious
@@lenovi4492 ok
@@lenovi4492 go back
I could care less about Olive Garden struggling, they’ll survive. It’s the Ma and Pa shops that I’m worried about. Why isn’t there a strong relief effort on their behalf.
Ma and Pa shops need more money to keep them afloat they represent the normal people that make any city special.
💯
Have you seen what Dave Portnoy has been doing?
Because it's just printing money man, when that happens it helps them for a few months but then in the end it'll raise the cost to stay open. Their ingredients, napkins, everything will go up even man.
Some ma and pop shops are getting burned out. I've been to one and the service has tanked since going there before.
Title: Why Olive Garden is struggling.
Most people: ‘Well there’s a pandemic but okay, shoot...’
its been struggling b4 da rona
My exact thoughts.
Because there is better Italian food. Is Olive Garden Italian?
@@arjunkarsan4989 also that. It sucks so that’s probably a fair point.
@@arjunkarsan4989 It is the tex-mex equivalent to Italian food.
Panera isn’t a fraction of the cost?? lol it’s literally like $20 for a cup of soup/half sandwich
And the sandwiches are plain and disgusting!! I make way better sandwiches at home!!
Yeah I don't get that comment. Panera is NOT cheap at all.
... and you leave still feeling hungry.
And you have to bus your dishes!
Yeah, it's probably even more expensive then Olive Garden cause Olive Garden usually has some deal going on
Their quality has gone down a lot compared to when I was a kid
Quality and quantity.
maybe your taste improved
Or maybe it stayed the same and your taste buds changed AHA
I was watching the White Castle CNBC's episode yesterday about being a large but still family owned business and one thing became apparent to me. The growth can be slow and limited but quality remains. Shareholders pushing for more profits lead inevitably to loss of quality. I mean you can't starve your employees to death in order to make bigger and bigger profits for yourself.
They are?
People found out that most of OG menu can be easily cooked at home at 1/5 the price.
Exactly. I paid almost $60 for getting 2 pieces ( small fricken pieces at that ) of lasagna with some soup on the side. I can spend $30 and get all the lasagna ingredients and have like 6 pieces.
Nope, most people don't have the ability to cook like that.
@@wesmont87 all you do is practice any given recipe and through trial and error it will come out great eventually. Just cause you don’t go to school doesn’t mean you have to stop learning throughout your life man.
More like 1/10th.
@@robertross4699 lmao. You make it sound like there aren't 100s of videos you can watch online where they're basically holding your hand through it. All it takes is a little practice and it becomes almost second nature. It ain't rocket science.
Olive Garden and other “casual” restaurant chains are overpriced and serve pre packaged microwaved slop. Mom & Pop is the way to go.
@@ea9849 not all mom and pop restaurants are good but most of them are and they’ll easily beat the “best” Olive Garden. Cooking is a good alternative though some dishes are better left to the professionals .
Not everyone can cook.
But yes these casual are microwaved food 🥘
Lol mom and pops usually use cheap ingredients and have poor sanitation habits because ThAt HoW mAmA cOoKs At HoMe.
@@Lucas_Antar and pre packaged pouches of food full of preservatives, warmed up in a microwave served at Olive Garden, Red Lobster etc across the country is better? I’ll take my chances and support a family business.
@@2Kriss2Kross well said
If you've ever eaten lasagna at an olive garden, there is a good chance that you had my 3rd-grade teacher's family's recipe. When I was in her class, she entered the recipe into a national contest seeking the best lasagna. She won, they took her recipe, and she was awarded one free dinner at Olive Garden lol!
Sadisti
As a former employee, I can say that the lasagna is one of the worst things on the menu.
My two favorite dishes were the braised beef tortellini and the stuffed chicken marsala. Neither is on the menu anymore. They also used to sell pizza. The chicken alfredo pizza was pretty good.
Why Olive Garden Is Struggling
The Food sucks
oh wait sorry
The unnecessarily expensive Food sucks
It sucks
The food looks cheap
@@renohasbigtits and yet its not lmao
Maybe they're struggling because their servers are smoking meth
I’ve never been but everyone I know says it’s cheap. I googled them and they only have 2 dollar signs and they have huge family size portions. I’ve heard the quality is bad, but it doesn’t look expensive at all. We must be thinking of 2 different restaurants.
They are struggling because I can cook their food at home or go to a local Italian restataunt that’s way better
And cheaper
Idk man that unlimited soup salad and breadsticks slappsss, I hit the gym then hit that deal and grub for a hour for like $10
There breadsticks are good though. But I feel like I'm gonna die from one breadstick because of all the salt and grease
Someone just nailed it - the quality of Olive Garden has gone downhill over the last 20 years.
This is so true ... I decided to make my own fettuccine alfredo , and I never knew why I even wasted my time going to olive garden 🙃
This year a lot of people started cooking from home and people realized that you can make authentic Italian food that tastes better at home for cheaper than what Olive Garden offers.
This comment here! It applies for other restaurants as well
My dog can eat a can of Ravioli and s*** it out the next day and it would taste better than Olive Garden
@@antoniocobb9648 lol
It’s fast food quality at dine in speed. I’d rather go to a local business than support some multimillion dollar company.
@Weenie Hut Jr's good joke
I could care less whether local or chain, but I do care about value and quality of the food. Just no reason to pay $20 for pasta that doesn't taste any better than something elsewhere for half as much (or even less).
I remember when OG used to be one of the top places to go before the high school dances. That’s when they had the building styles before the “Tuscany” models. It was a more classy look. Had strung lights in a courtyard area. The pasta was still made fresh on site. It was a fairly nice joint to go to back in the early 90s
I work at OG and we still make the pasta fresh.
@@Karen-or9nt that’s a lie lol
Big chain restaurants just serve frozen, mass produced food. I love where I live because we have a lot of locally owned restaurants who put a lot of effort into their food and it’s delicious
Remember many of those places get the same or similar frozen products through distributors like US Foods, Sysco, and Martin Brothers.
Equally as true many chains make stuff from scratch still. Like Olive Garden's soup and sauces are all made in house. Pasta isn't microwaved. Yes some of the stuff is mass produced and frozen so your meal doesn't take an hour and 30 minutes to make, but that is due to consumer demands of quick service regardless of quality level.
I manage at a smaller regional chain with 10 stores total so far. We make many of our sauces, boneless wings, onion rings, rice, pico, chilli, etc all in house. Plus each store does its own features menus and burger of the month where most of it has to be made from scratch, because those are store by store decisions. Chains aren't evil neccesarily. They are formed, molded, and grown to their size due to consumer demand. We are the assholes that killed the small businesses when Walmart and Amazon rolled into the retail space and we as consumers do the same thing in the restaurant space.
@@Sirg17x Olive Garden has food that is too healthy. I do not like healthy food. Also Olive Garden is bad for the enviorment.
@@insectbite1714 Olive Garden healthy is far from healthy. Their soups are 150 to 230 calories a bowl, their bread sticks are 140 calories a piece, and their meals are mostly 1200 to 1500 calories before remembering the two soups and 3 bread sticks you had plus your drink and and added parmesan cheese. You take in no less than 3/4 your daily calories on average even getting the healthiest of options.
As for bad for the environment you must be kidding. All restaurants are terrible for the environment from factory farming to straws. There is nothing environmental about driving over to a place that literally runs record amounts of water, gas, and electricity all day.
@@insectbite1714 if you think olive garden is healthy then you must like eating really unhealthy food.
Just keep supporting them please
Why Olive Garden is struggling
Why Americans love Olive Garden 🤔
Right 😂 Those are two different videos. 🤦🏾♀️
I like Olive Garden. I think I'll go to Fazoli's for lunch.
Why CNBC makes advertisements? 🙂
In short, Americans are struggling
Because it is essentially Italian fast food
The “pasta” is frozen garbage. I swear every time I’ve gone back, the quality of the food has seemed even worse.
Might be time to stop going back.
yep, might have to eat somewhere else
Agreed.
The pasta they serve is not frozen
@@lonewolfstrife3637 That would be difficult to eat.
The last time we went (for a to go order), we got their salad, which is pretty large. But it’s all lettuce. “Olive” Garden puts maybe two olives, a couple tomato slices, a couple pepperoncini and a few onion slices in it. Nothing like the marketing video you showed in this video of their salad. In response, we decided to have our own “Un-Olive Garden Night” at home, made our own Italian dishes, but we did buy a bottle of their salad dressing and one order of breadsticks. We made our OWN salad which was far better and not skimped out like theirs. This was for 7 people. Cost? $25. In the restaurant that would have been $150. AND it was way better tasting. THAT is why they’re failing.
As a fellow American of Italian descent, lemme just say, Olive Garden is as Italian as Panda Express is Chinese.
Yesssss
And is as mexican as taco bell lmao
"Italian Americans are as Italian as Dominos Pizza. Il forno e casa tua." Furio Giunta (maybe)
LOL. Hilarious.
@@alfonsomueller4438 Touché 😭🤫
When the company refuses to talk to CNBC, it’s never a good sign...
Exactly!
Yep, not a good look on their half
Why
Because they (the network) would ask Olive Garden questions that they don’t wanna answer. Shady
This video could’ve been 10 seconds long simply saying “Because they are nasty”. Short and sweet.
I use to go all the time with my family but with this pandemic I challenged myself to make my fav dishes and my families so now I just make them instead of going :,)
Olive Garden will survive. Sadly, many of those amazing local italian eateries won't
Olive Garden will go bankrupt hopefully and Italy is bad because pollution levels.
they claim to send their “chefs” each year to school in Tuscany but then they serve up weird American versions of low quality “Italian” food at high prices.
I worked for Olive Garden for 11 years. Trust me the cooks do not go to Italy. And there are no chefs.
Chef Boyar Dee du jour
Oh I do believe they said their test kitchen chefs to Tuscany, but not normal line cooks at a corporate store
Absolutely no way they send their migrant "Chef" anywhere to learn anything.
Their prices aren't high, they're fairly reasonable. The Outback is more expensive than Olive Garden any day.
In what universe are people still going to Olive Garden? We need to support small mom and pop spots with better ingredients and real cooking.
Yes 👏
Do you know how many people would lose their jobs mom and pop stores doesn’t employ as many people as big chains
@@mohammedahmed5349 😂
The Olive Garden in Mobile, AL is doing great! I don’t eat there but when I pass by it’s always packed, even on weekdays.
Their food just isn’t fresh 🤷🏽♀️ Too high priced for the low quality.
I took my native Italian husband there last time we were stateside, just to get his review. It was *not* pretty; he still drags Olive Garden calling it things like Olive Garbage 😂
That's exactly what I thought the first and only time I went there.
NO SEASONING OR FLAVOR 🤢🤢🤢
Admit it, you must have known beforehand that he wasn't going to have a good time there?
@@SendHimToRikers I know you are a troll, but think about it this way. I've had very good Italian, Asian, and German food. Made by people from them countries. Their food is a lot better. Then the stuff you can buy pre made, or at a any local dinner. So her husband. Has every right to trash a place. I have eaten at restaurants in the states. That even their own American food. Taste like crap. Compared to the way I grew up eating it.
@@SendHimToRikers
*get
According to them, every damn food chain is struggling.
I made their zuppa Toscana from scratch and it tasted exactly like olive gardens. So I'm just gonna start cooking more food from restaurants now.
Their quality has gone way down. Most of the food taste frozen and microwaved.
lol it's been frozen since Day 1 son
That's because it is lol this is NOT ITALIAN FOOD WHATSOEVER
Actually their food tastes worse than frozen food!
Alot of it is microwaved, like the broccoli.
Its because Mexicans can't cook good Italian food
I used to love OG. But their quality went down a lot in the last decade. I can get much better pasta at Costco
Exactly. They used to do real grilled chicken and then they switched to like frozen packed booed chicken that was then “seared” to make it look grilled
I stopped going like 10 years ago lol
@@UrbanBDKNY I always hated Olive Garden
@@insectbite1714 🤣
I used to eat Chicken Alfredo. Went to Italy
And asked for it and they looked at me like I was crazy lol there is no such thing. It’s just a creamy cheesy white sauce
I liked it though and I loved their bread and salad back then. Only thing I hate there was that
@@UrbanBDKNY My mom went to France and got everything on earth.
@@UrbanBDKNY Went to Italy in 2017 and the same thing happened to me 😂😂😂
Olive Gardens are always packed where I am.... even in this pandemic 💀. How the hell should they be struggling
Olive Garden promoted me and cut my hours in half. Im glad this business is going out. Worked here for 9 years and was promised growth and now its about time they were suffering.
@Southeastern777 And people wonder why nobody wants to work at a place like this making slave wages. Because these kind of jobs enables assholes to walk all over you and make you feel like dirt no matter how hard you work. The baby boomer generation did this to us and now people are waking up. Increase your wages, or your business dies along with the CEO's chance of a third boat.
Yeah, truly a toxic and hostile work environment. I feel for you...9 years?! Christ, made my escape in 2 months!
I’ve worked at Olive Garden for three years. Started as a busser, then a server, now I’m a to-go specialist and plan to work my way up and up. We’re definitely not hurting lol. Darden is a billion dollar company. It’s not real Italian, no. Does our pasta come in a box like every other massive chain? Yup. However, all four soups are made fresh every day. All sauces are made in house as well. I’m not saying it’s absolutely amazing. You’ll definitely spend about 50 dollars for a meal for two people, but that’s just like any other restaurant. And most people don’t finish their whole plate and take about half home, along with bread, salad they didn’t finish, etc. A nice home cooked meal is always gonna beat anything. But we still get people spending a grand on our catering instead of cooking themselves. Were good over here 👈🏻
I think you'd have a brighter future if you got an undergrad degree, then possibly a Master's degree in a field that interests you. Even if you become a manager of an Olive Garden, you won't have the options someone with higher education has. At this point, we don't call them jobs. They're "positions".
@@DIVISIONINCISION You going to pay for that degree? Don't suggest a random degree. Most degrees are worthless and you need to plan one for the most likely profit for your tuition.
@@DIVISIONINCISION you wrong
You are the exact type of employee they need. Loyal, satisfied with long hours on your feet, swapping shifts with the next one the type of employee they need. I am glad you are good over there.Wonderful what works for you
@@DIVISIONINCISION This isn’t me rejecting your advice, or saying it isn’t valid or welcome. But I think you and I may have two different ideas of what a bright future looks like. This is just insight from my perspective. I’ve never had a dream job, I just want to be happy and be able to support myself. People are always going to eat and I get to meet people and make connections with them that would never happen otherwise. Food makes people happy and especially with places like OG, where people come for birthdays, anniversaries, I’ve even had men ask me to help them propose to their girlfriends on a couple of my serving shifts. I have real bonds with people like this little old man named Bob that sits with me every Sunday. Always gets the same thing and just loves the conversation as his wife passed two years ago and his kids moved away. I have so many regulars that I’m on a first name basis with and I just adore them. I’m so happy with what I do and let’s be honest, if you’re very passionate about something, but then you turn it into your job, your career, it adds stress. You have deadlines and you fall out of love with it. It can start to feel like a chore and like it’s something you have to do. I never want to experience that. I also don’t have debt and my things are paid for. Restaurant work is way deeper than “may I take your order please” But I wish you luck in whatever you decide to do! :)
Because their food is terrible.
There, saved you 11 minutes.
Lol
On god
THIS!!!!!
Wait...hate to drag it out, but you forgot to mention the sanitary practices, the management, and the work environment!
LOL I remember I asked for roasted garlic on my pasta, the hostess said "we don't have garlic , just whatever comes in the bottle or can" her exact words, any Italian Nonna would react in horror. You get better pasta at Trader Joe's.
Olive garden is BLAND and over priced in my opinion so I can see why they're struggling
You've never eaten at popular Canadian restaurants. You want bland, come to Canada. OG is amazing in comparison.
Finally someone who wont bring up olive garden when asked what restaurant they want to eat at
@@gregmendoza1915 don't listen to any comments that promote or praise Camada. Canada is training Chinese soldiers to destroy America in 2022. You must not help your enemy.
@@insectbite1714 tf are you on
@@justarandomperson755 I know facts
When a company like Darden acquires a restaurant like Olive Garden, they do so for the profits. The end up watering down the menu and milking the reputation that restaurant has built. Inevitably it becomes crappy food and profits get drained. Restaurants are the best at that moment just before they sell to companies like Darden and Landry's
Um, Darden didn't "acquire" Olive Garden. The restaurant started out owned by General Mills. Then General Mills spun it off into it's own company called Darden (along with Red Lobster and a couple of others).
@@MemphisTiger Good to know! The example isn't meant to be fact, but accuracy in terms of what happens to good restaurants when money hungry corporations like Darden take it over. Why did you put "acquire" in quotes like that? And funny how you started your reply with 'Um' LOL
Ricky G aside from nonprofits, curious how many businesses don't operate for profits.
@@Christjs27 not many at all I could imagine
@@MemphisTiger General Mills was big enough that they only needed the resturants to provide a small slice of their overall revenue. So the quality was good. In fact it was hard to beat Red Lobster for quality seafood in the 80s now they are trash and its even worse than olive garden.
Olive Garden used to be my favorite restaurant until I found out they microwave their food #Gross
Eewww...
I’m honestly shocked at all these comments of people saying OG uses frozen food that they simply microwave. 😟 I currently work there and have never really seen frozen microwaved food. If anything I see employees come in at 8 am everyday making fresh bread and pasta. Maybe it’s a location thing?
@@Jess-jj7wo fr I work there too n I’ve never seen frozen soup or breadsticks
Whhhaaatttt....
The only thing I remember we used microwaves for when I worked there 16 years ago was the manicotti. It was the only pasta I recall that was pre-made and frozen. We cooked it for a certain length in the microwave before topping it with the sauce and cheese then it got melted under a salamander
Today, both wife and I cook for our family and when we do eat out, we'll spend a little more and eat at genuine family-run restaurants. Break the Chain!
full service $20+ pasta that I can make at home for $5 max... right...
Try 1 dollar lol packets to boil same fettuccine at home
@@nitishkannan2919 Yup. I laughed when he said "Signature fettuccine alfredo".
I actually started making my own because I liked Fettuccine. I can make better at home. I get better quality cheese to.
Facts!
@Kenzie Jean I made homemade sauce. It is so much better.
Olive Garden calling itself an "Italian Restaurant" is an insult to Italian restaurants.
it is Italian its just not authentic its Americas version just like Chinese food
Ita says it’s the best.
The Chinese food of Italian. But if you think that is bad, you have not been to a fazoli's.
@@RavenBlaze ita said what the hell is fazolis!!? ITA SAYS OLIVE GARDEN #1
They serve Italian dishes, it's like going to dominos or KFC in india you're like "this isn't like how it is in America" but it's still American food. It goes both ways, food like language like clothing, music and movies are tweaked for their local demographics. Like indian food in india is very different from what actual Indian migrants sell to Americans in America but it's still indian food, same with Greek, Mexican or any other cuisine.
The bread IS like hotdog buns 🤣
I literally want to make garlic bread hot dogs now. Sounds good.
“I am not going back to that restaurant.” -Cleveland Brown, “Family Guy”
They’re struggling cause the only thing good there is the breadsticks...
They changed the breadsticks years ago I haven’t been since
@laron adams the STICKS LMAOO 🤣
stop talking smack not even good reheated they go stale after the second day
Their bread sticks are only good for like 2 minutes when it's hot.
@Boo Babylon No one cares
WHY THEY ARE STRUGGLING?? SERVE LESS FOOD, DON'T HAVE MEAL DEALS, PRICES GONE UP, DON'T SERVE THERE SPECIALS ALL DAY, (stop at 2pm) I WAS 5 MINS LATE & THEY WOULDN'T SERVE IT TO ME SO I LEFT . HAVEN'T BEEN BACK OVER 3 YRS. I DROVE 25 MILES
Will never forget...my friend n I took our mom's to eat...both my friend n I ordered the Chicken Marsala...both of us had food poisoning by that night!
I have not been to an olive garden since pre pandemic but the last few times I felt service was a lot worse.....waiting for orders to get taken, waiting longer to get the food. Bringing out 2 breadsticks instead of a basket.....they cut back on those unlimited breadsticks so by the time they would bring more you are ready to go.
Olive Garden is struggling because the food tastes like reheated left-overs. Every few years I end up in one of their restaurants and I am always disappointed in the food. And the staff seems to only be able to follow the corporate script. Ask a question they haven't rehearsed and they don't know how to respond.
My first job was as a hostess at olive garden and you're absolutely right, everything is just reheated, the only thing the kitchen really does is boil pasta and microwave frozen stuff that gets delivered in cardboard boxes... And yes I can't speak for the servers but as a host we were very much on a script
@@maudehall-skillern1492 I worked as a server in the late 2000’s. When I would come in for opening shifts, the kitchen staff would always be doing prep work and making everything fresh. Slicing vegetables, making lasagna trays, sauces, soups, etc.
However, I do remember the soups…Minestrone, Tuscana, and Fagoli coming in big plastic bags.
Why Americans "love Olive Garden"
Why Olive Garden is struggling
WTF 🤔🤨
Most I know only go for soup and salad for lunch....if to go at all
When you ask for more salad they give attitude
Olive Garden used to be one of my favorite restaurants but the quality of their food has gone way down!... 😞
The title and the thumbnail don’t add up
They mess that up a lot.....
FAX
What u mean
Lmao they fixed it 😂
@@labadaba5088 why americans love olive garden
Why Olive Garden is struggling?
The same reason everyone is struggling right now.
They were struggling for years already.
I’m not struggling
I own a restraunt in a red state . Us and neighbors had the bedt year by far weve had yet.. Depends on where your at it seems.
@@faye5942 hahaha yeah stfu
Your clever
Olive Garden fell of years ago imo. The last 3 times that I’ve gone there the food was subpar and the breadsticks were hard as bricks! 😩
Move cuz it’s def not like that where I’m at
@@donovanthompson1807 That's amazing! I'm not moving for OG though.
@@HeartBr8kRach lmaoooo, please
I agree
Used to work there, it’s basically a very pricey frozen meal.
Bread sticks are not fresh. Soups are not fresh, sauces are not fresh. It’s all frozen.
Awww! The breadsticks are generally freshly reheated. Very talented cooks...their skill is matched only by any 10 year old latchkey kid from the 80s who was allowed to zap a can of Chef Boyardee for a snack!
A Florida man created Olive Garden.
It was a good idea, just overpriced for salad, pasta and bread. But
I've heard they've improved, expanded their menu since their initial output.
🥴🤣
Dr. Sheldon Cooper: “I don’t want to go to Olive Garden. They treat me like family... I don’t want to treated like family.”
Bazimgo
Bazinga!
Even pre-pandemic, people weren’t going to Olive Garden, Chili’s, etc. for the food. They went because they could go to a “sit down” restaurant for a relatively cheap price and everyone in the group could find something they like due to the large menu. Take away all that and you might as well just make a frozen meal.
As someone who works at Olive Garden, even with the pandemic, Olive Garden is not struggling. At least the location I work at and the ones near me
3:46 Panera's prices are a fraction of Olive Garden's? Might want to double check your numbers.
I was thinking the same thing.
$15 for a half sandwich and small cup of soup?? Agree
Panera is very expensive
Like 25 for a decent meal
@@jacobgoldenofficial4321 worth it, Panera bread is good food.
@@insectbite1714 I agree
Bread is made fresh
And the smoothies are awesome
They are struggling so much they now have LIMITED breadsticks!
WOW
The air conditioning is always too damn high in there. I wanna eat ravioli not freeze to death ☠️
Lol!!!
I left Olive Garden at Coral Springs after eating Chicken Scampi. The Chicken Scampi, which I mentioned to the staff, was a "no go" and I stated that it had too much sauce for the first time. For the first time in all my years eating at Olive Garden, the Chicken Scampi was full of sauce. I have been a customer since 2007 or earlier. I noticed that when I went into the bathroom and checked on my throat, the right side of my throat had swelling and not the left side. It began to hurt when I swallow while I was finishing the Chicken Scampi. I also had raspberry lemonade to drink. I ate the Chicken Gnocci soup prior to the Chicken Sampi and had no reactions! This is the first time I have ever in my life time sat down at a restaurant and had a reaction! I have been watching this Olive Garden branch in Coral Springs and I notice sometimes the Chicken Scampi meal is weird/different from what I am used to at times! If you changed the recipe for the Chicken Scampi please let your customers know! I do not know if all that sauce is to mask a new ingredient during this covid season! Please check the roster for the staff and chef during the lunch hour of Thursday, July 29, 2021. I left around or after 3:00 PM! I am still a faithful customer to Olive Garden because I know Olive Garden and I know the quality of workers you have hired in the past. I also know that its mostly young people, which I have reported to the president that are giving problems in the area. I already mentioned that there needs to be a draft for the young people in America and for Veterans to take their place at these jobs that they mess with people or hate working at for whatever the reason may be. There needs to be training in respect, empathy, discipline and love. Young people cannot exist in America if they have hatred towards other people and playing around with diseases! Please note that I have witnessed near this area, young people messing with the orange juiceat McDonald's and the straws at McDonald's have been dirty. I am a person who encourage and teach young people to be productive! I am not against the young people but there are too many bad apples! I took two Benadryls, two Tylenols, gargled with salt water and hydrogen peroxide. I noticed that the right side of my tongue reacted to the peroxide with white foam moreso than my left side so I am aware there is something there after having that meal. My throat feels a little better now and its around 4:56PM EST and I will update you if all goes well after 24 hours! Yes, I was tested for covid and it was negative but if all does not go well I will test for covid again. Also, I will let you know of any medical expenses resulting from this meal! Again, I am not against Olive Garden and I support this business but I am aware of the changes in staff and the difference in the meal service at the location in Coral Springs, Florida! Thank you for years of quality service in other areas such as New York City, Georgia, etc!
Cost too high and taste has gone tasteless just tried again last month thinking my tastebuds off .No food was BLAND in Manhattan Kansas. Sad
boycott any and all chains LOL olive garden just makes expensive airplane food
As somebody who works at Olive garden this is true
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i'm doing that myself (boycotting chains). Mom and Pop places are so much better and the service is great now that they're running scared about their financial situation.
"Now all restaurants are Taco Bell. They were the only one to survive the franchise wars." -Demolition Man
Scary when Science Fiction is becoming fact.
Don't forget that all television and movies are Disney.
All of my friends and I once thought these places were cool, but now ... no way and never. We have all pivoted to locally own restaurants. This naturally occurred as we explored local beer breweries. Since most of the brewers also featured local business restaurants and food trucks...
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The thumbnail: 😄🥰😛😊
U ok CNBC?
hey stop using using emojis... we're not mentally impaired yet lol
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Wtf are u talking about
@@maroonhorizon1693 you’re too late they changed it
I don't understand why people like olive garden but then again I also don't understand how people like taco bell either.
Good comparison.
Taco bell is cheap munchies food.
Want a late night snack?taco bell.
Like in colorado?taco bell.
Cheap lunch cuase you for got yours?taco bell.
Try the new toasted chelopa u will thank me 😆
My local Olive Garden is always packed even during Covid (December 2020)
All large companies products and services are continually cheapened by middle management on a continual basis until you end up with something nobody wants. Their food used to taste better, and service everywhere in America has been on the decline for decades.
I haven't eaten at Olive Garden once in 20 years.
Same. I can't imagine who goes there.
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The last time was over 10 years ago when I was visiting home from the military. I took a date there and while the ambiance was nice, the food was bland and boring but expensive for what it actually was. I'd rather pay more money for better Italian food.
I remember Olive Garden in 2004 being an actual restaurant experience. The food was made by a chef. The last time I went to Olive Garden was in 2012, and it was a completely different experience - they served us a microwave meal.
Its never been made by chefs. Its always been mass produced
Wow. I went there in 1982 and it was disgusting! I never went back. Maybe your tastes have refined??
The broccoli is microwaved, it's put in a food service grade plastic container with a lid and some water halfway covering it. Reheating broccoli over and over again in the same water in the same container seems to be common. I wouldn't order it if eating in the restaurant, to go is different with better quality control. It is important to note that the broccoli reheating method depends on who's at the appetizer segment of the line, how busy it is. However this isn't an excuse to forgo quality control. Personally I go off of if I wouldn't want to eat it, why would I subject a customer to it? this applies to anything prepared without question.
@@Pravda_Z Olive Garden didn’t open their first restaurant until 1988.
@@jasonrfoss248 lol
It’s a glorified Applebee’s. Their food is prepackaged and a lot of it is microwaved. And their prices are just stupid. There saved you 11 minutes, move along.
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I remember when we had Olive Garden in Canada. It was a gem in the small plaza of my neighborhood. That was 20 years ago. Now it's gone.
The title and the thumbnail are contradicting each other.
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Very good
Hey you stole my picture
Any town that has a real Italian restaurant is the reason it's struggling.
Spot on.
It almost look like "Demolition Man" scenario, where only Taco Bell exists.
I am calling out Olive Garden Capitola California's branch. I have been there twice since it opened and let me tell you, both times the customer service was horrible. The first time we went, it was a large group. We were 7 people of which two of our friends never got there order. They gave me a wrong order and my friends order was still frozen. We left and my other friend never got her order.
The second time that we went, I thought of giving it a second chance. The tables were empty there was only two tables occupied. They took forever to seat us and they left us at the table. No menus, they did not come to ask if we had been helped. We were sitting for an hour and no one ever came up to us. Ge got up and left. And still the restaurant was empty. We never went back.
Olive garden is not real Italian, as an Italian, Olive Garden is terrible when it comes to flavor.
It tastes like doodoo.
Its not bad. Its just mediocre
Im Italian your not guy, i am the gordon ramsay of italian food.
What's saltier, the pasta or the Olive Garden CEO losing money?
There are a lot of cheap fast food places but Panera isn't one of them. I ate there yesterday. The pick 2 deal (small soup and half sandwich) was $13, an iced tea $3.50.
I'm proud to say I have never eaten at an Olive Garden,
As well you should be! The only thing more depressing and horrifying is to work there!
Short answer: food is nasty
Did you watch more than a few seconds of the video? Short answer:Pandemic
The food is nasty and you can make the same for three bucks.
"Tuscan style" LMAO
That's corporate speak for "has spices"
I don’t go to Olive Garden anymore because you pay the same price for their takeout as you do for dine in, but with dine in the portions are much larger and worth the price, plus you can take advantage of the endless pasta and breadsticks. With takeout, you pay the same price for less food.
I must be losing it. how can they state first quarter 2021 sales when they haven't happened yet?
When I can’t use them dirty ass utensils to eat their food you know why
I thought this said olive _oil_ and I was like, "I buy plenty of olive oil!" lol 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Man , these CNBC videos are addictive as anything.
Everytime I went to olive garden I always ALWAYS got food poisoning no matter what meal I got. It never failed to give me food poisoning.
Sounds like Jared from Subway is out of prison and took up a narration gig 😂
You get 75,346 breadsticks as an appetizer
Not true, Olive Garden is not that good.
And they are rock hard and flavorless.
Nice to see some good investigative journalism. Thank you
The rich stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without stopping then the poor stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich.
You're right sir
You see many people remain poor because of ignorance.
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Not because of ignorance, but because of too many scammers in the business.
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There are scammers but they are real brokers out there looking for investors
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Now that is winter, it is too cold to eat outside and with COVID-19 infections rising, some jurisdictions have ban indoor dining