An Employee Reveals Why You Should Avoid Olive Garden Salads
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- When you think of Olive Garden, the first menu item you probably think of is breadsticks. The two just go hand in hand. But what springs to mind next? A pasta dish, perhaps? Soup? For lots of customers, it's salad. With its blend of vegetables and rich Italian dressing, it's inspired praise from critics and even a copycat recipe from the Food Network.
That said, next time you head to your favorite chain restaurant where you're family, you may want to skip the salad altogether. Why? Someone who claims to have once been an employee explained that you have no idea what you're getting. Watch as an employee reveals why you should avoid Olive Garden salads.
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What do you think about the food at Olive Garden?
I love the food at Olive Garden. I'll still eat there.
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Love it!
Why go to a chain restaurant where the food is the same in New York as it is in Oregon? Go to a locally owned restaurant where the food is fresh and tastes better.
Great 100%
This sounds more like mismanagement of a specific Olive Garden location, not representative of Olive Garden as a whole.
Nope. It’s definitely the exact same at mine. However it wasn’t slugs in our drinks but tadpoles.
I work at on Olive garden. Not even a microwave in the building.
I work at an Olive Garden, and never have I seen anyone eat out of the salad toppings, (why would you randomly pop an onion slice into your mouth?). Most of us wash our hands pretty often, especially after scraping plates, we are allowed to carry sanitizing wipes, the salads are kept in the fridge, where they go, and there isn’t even a microwave in the Olive Garden I work at.
Yeah, I thought it sounded pretty stupid in the video.
Like most places I think it depends on the area of town, and the quality of employees there.
I'm so glad to hear no microwave!!!!!!
@@JV-mw7gv Sheeeeeeyit, I can'ts visit ya'lls foods places in the USA tah order a foods witout gettin' gawk at likes I's from da inner-city! It happen too!! And da Islam peoples is nuts too. I walk into YOUR shops to purchase bacon too but first I's gots ta know how to speak Islam too! - Da hell's wrong witchu people there? Imma slap you wit wet spahetti. Mama Mia!!!
Sounds like the typical fired employee.
These ppl were all fired !! They are just pissed!! I worked at the OG for years , and l never seen 1 microwave and the salad isn't left outside in back!! Food isn't as good as it was when they 1st opened , but it's still not all that bad! Lol
Former employees just want to talk trash about the restaurant and I love their salad and breadsticks so say whatever you..
But I love their salad with the Zuppa Tuscana 😭
Oh well...I still like their salads 🥗..They are great!
Yes they certainly are.
Me too!
Yes fire they are
Well it’s a salad it’s pretty hard to mess up. But their soups are actually really good. We make them and all the sauces in house
I just wish they would use the breadsticks when they go stale for croutons because the breadsticks make amazing croutons. When you go again take home some breadsticks and make some croutons from it and add to your salad you would love it. Also there is no canned chicken she is lying. And they wash their hands with sanitizing soap in the sink right by the salad station it is all very hygienic. They are just disgruntled and not telling the truth
I've never got sick from eating at an Olive Garden in Los Angeles. Sounds like a mismanagement at certain locations from this video. The restaurants I've been to don't have a salad bar so maybe that's why. Most of their food is probably frozen but I've never had a bad meal from there. It's a great place to meet with your co-workers for lunch hour at least.
I call BS on this. ANY restaurant worker who knows of health code violations and doesn't report those violations to the county board of health/restaurant licensing agency is guilty of a felony.
Yeah no one cares abou that
@@gameovergang2934 You will if you dine there and contract an illness.
I work at a very very busy O G. Nobody picks at the salad I have not seen any bug ect in the salad and don’t touch it with hands. Brand new. Drink stations are being installed tonight. They keep it clean a lot better than a major pizza chain I worked for
so that girl is wrong? where do they keep the salads??
Wow - no restaurant that began in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s creates their food the same now. Wendy’s no longer has fresh meat delivered daily with the opening employee making sure enough patties are pressed for the day - Pizza Hut no longer makes the dough fresh daily - McDonald’s no longer cuts anything fresh - Olive Garden once made fresh pasta for the public to see while waiting for a table. The list grows but if these people did as they claim then they should be ashamed of themselves because I worked at an OG for over 5 years and we had the best staff and management team I ever worked with. Our restaurant had people who cared about the restaurant and the customers. So SHAME on you nasty people who didn’t bother to wash your hands because wipes were taken from you!! Grow up!
that’s capitalism for you
I love Olive Garden, I'll still eat there.
Wait does it make sense that employees would pick off the top of the salad when they know how bad sanitary conditions are and the bugs?
My complaint about the salad is that I am the one who likes to put my dressing on the salad. They put on entirely TOO much dressing on it. My last time there, many years ago I requested salad no dressing , was told ok and was brought a salad swimming in dressing. Have not gone back.
apple bees same way, they microwave a lot of their foods too.
Hmmm I have had 2 acquaintances who worked there… they said not true…
Olive gardens bread stick come from flowers baking company. The same for outback’s bread.
Olive Garden is an Italian - American franchise , not Italian , it has nothing to do at all with authentic Italian cuisine.
Same with a lot of popular Mexican and Chinese restaurants. If you want authentic food, find an independently owned place. If I want Italian where I live, I'd just as well microwave something because it tastes about the same as the Olive Garden here.
Chef Mike is the hardest worker at this restaurant chain.
Who is chef mike ?
@Shiv Sengupta, thank you. It's not funny if I had to explain it.
That's the case in most big chain restaurants. They need to keep food consistent from location to location, so it's not uncommon for food to be prepared in an off-site distribution center, shipped out, then reheated at at the individual restaurants.
Olive garden we treat you like family
So the mom throws a fit and the dad calls his son a lazy little bastard😂
My friend and his family went to Olive Garden a few years ago and there was a MOTH in the salad! It's not the first time I've heard of bugs in salad🤢The problem is that the kitchen is full of teenagers who don't care about anything except getting their paycheck.
Exactly lazy young kitchen staff! I say hire a Chef to run my business.
When they first opened the restaurant they served freshly made pasta. It wasn’t long though before they went to boxed pasta. Still a fan.
I was absolutely annihilating bowls of salad and baskets of breadsticks back in the day. That said, I totally believe most of this.
I’m craving Olive Garden now 😂😂😂
Olive Garden is a chain restaurant. And, in order to maintain food consistency across all of their restaurants, the food will arrive frozen and just needs to be reheated in the microwave or briefly sautéed. This is the case for most chains and really isn’t a surprise. As for the other issues, they are specific to that particular restaurant and honestly sound like managerial issues. Like, why are you allowing your employees to pick off of the salads?!?
It's truly sad that we have became a nation of Franchised food garbage.. quanity over quality
@@michaelgrant7322 **Mrs. michaelgrant,** Sheeeeeeyit, we can'ts visit ya'lls foods places in the USA tah order a foods witout gettin' gawk at likes I's from da inner-city! It happen too!! And da Islam peoples is nuts too. I walk into YOUR shops to purchase bacon too but first I's gots ta know how to speak Islam! - Da hell's wrong witchu people there? Imma slap you face wit da wet spahetti. Mama Mia!!!
@@michaelgrant7322 Dis English is 2ng language to me yah. You speak two languages?
Whoopty Doooo!🙄
EVERY restaurant gets trashed in the reviews at some point and time. It just comes with the territory. Olive Garden's salad will continue to be popular. The Bitter Betties need to give it a rest!
Coming from the Boston area, there is no excuse whatsoever to go to Olive Garden, Pizza Hut, Subway, Chick Fil A, Long John Silver"s or 5 Guys. There are an overwhelming number of Mom and Pops, that are far better, and much cheaper. But far better seals the deal. And no doubt in NYC, Philadelphia, and Chicago it's the same. But this is for you, in the suburbs and sticks of flyover states. If you go, you deserve it.
The same goes for everywhere including the suburbs. People need to quit the branding addiction and go to local restaurants that "look weird." No they're not, they're authentic and actually are.
The only chain restaurant worth a damn is Sullivan's steakhouse. No microwave. Everything made fresh inhouse. Hand cut steaks. I was a pantry cook/prep cook.
Most of these chain restaurants are nothing but fast food served on a plate, plus over priced
Never again, unless I’m eating soup and breadsticks only! Try bowls of the chicken gnocchi soup, just the gnocchi, and keep ordering. Fantastic, with fresh breadsticks.
Oh my goodness
Well it is coming from SpookyShanny so it must be true.
I ordered food to go at Olive Garden, the pasta was still frozen and had to be reheated (at home) the bread was stale, the salad was small and not fresh. This was the second time I ordered there and the Last !
We need to ask an employer of olive garden if this is true lol
When she said alley she means KITCHEN alley.. not outside. but everything is true besides “microwaving” .. some dishes use a hot broiler to melt the cheese on top..
I've heard from a former OG employee that each OG restaurant is a gateway to hell and that satan licks each & every bread stick before they're served to the customers!😳
😂😂😂
Yeah fucking right
L O L
We finally figured out why we were getting sick!
I hope this is not true!! I’ve always loved their salad!!!
We were there last week the worst mail ever I will not be going back there soon
Well done mate. Thanks for sharing. Stay connected.
Yeah... I got food poisoning from an Olive Garden a few years back. Pissing out of both ends if that makes sense to y'all. I don't eat there anymore.
I don't eat the salad anymore they put to much dressing on it and I'm not a big fan. I get the gnocchi soup and spaghetti. It never ends well. 😆🤣😉
Sounds like sour grapes to me
Chances are the picking out bugs from the salad is true mc Donald’s leaf lettuce does at times contain little flys right out a fresh bag from the walk in.
Oh wow.. I hope this is not true.. but I have noticed they aren't same as they used to be. Unfortunate.
I know I am hungry when I click on these stories.
I thought they were going to say what I always think, what happens with my left over salad? Do they throw it away or do they reuse it?
I've been to many fine dining restaurants.... Olive garden salad just hit different
This is the worst Friday the 13th ever on earth.
Maybe we will all get lucky and JASON will come to visit YOU... and save us all from your future comments 😂
The one by me has actually gotten better. I used to hate olive garden, but i guess it depends on who is running it.
Salad isn't fresh or crisp
The word "disgruntled" comes to mind...
Yikes! it really is sad.
Damn it Olive Garden! Leave the spiders in the salad! More protein!
Wonder why she no longer works there?
I'm not sure I'd believe the allegations. Surely there are health inspections in most cities.
🥘🥘🥗 good morning all 🥖 my friend and I go to the Olive Garden for my birthday never had an problem with they food most time get the eggplant parmigiana always good 🍆🥘 maybe the girl had problem with management and give it a bad wrap 🍅
I got stomachache every time I eat the salad.
This alleged worker of 10 years, NOW starts to complain about her former employee??? I call B.S. ! I LOVE OILIVE GARDEN as they deliver a good meal, at a nice location and at a fair price.
That’s pretty much every restaurant you don’t know what goes on in the back up till you worked at a restaurant
Wife is a manager at a og and I eat there often . This is ineeed not the case .
Sounds legit to me, customers don't understand the hassle of cleaning up thier mess which attracts the bugs .
Sounds like the employee has an axe to grind with Olive Garden.
I don’t like their salad or their breadsticks 🤷🏼♀️I always order the soup and ask for crackers. My favorite food there is the deep fried lasagna (appetizer) and the ravioli. I always thought it was too expensive for what you actually get, though. Also, there is an extreme lack of mozzarella for a so called Italian restaurant.
Knowing this, I’ll never go back to Olive Garden again..it’s good to know this..
You should avoid olive garden all together
I worked there for 2 years and all the lettuce came in bags and I’d say 1 in about 3 bags had some kind of bug in it, most of the time it was spiders lol
And the bread came frozen, and is drowned in “butter” then sprinkled with garlic salt. At my restaurant servers made the salads, breadsticks, and plated the soup and while you are always washing your hands there’s no way you can wash enough to be safe and be server at the same time. Very gross
I'm guessing the lasagna is made in large batches and reheated upon ordering.
So wether you go to Olive Garden or any other “casual” restaurant it’s going to be the same I’d argue the only restaurants that are extremely clean are obviously the 5 star restaurants
I still love Olive Garden 💕sorry!
Idk man. I was literally at an olive garden, not my choice it was for neices birthday, and the Sala that I got was horrible. All wilted, and the olives were mushy and rotted. Their bread sticks are horrible
You say bugs in the salad. Other people say chapulines.
That’s all true be very careful eating at this establishment
This happens to ALL chain restaurants when BEAN counters get involved. Old Chicago has folded and came back and folded again. Part of this is that the management refuses to keep GOOD cooks on their payroll. They will hire these damn kids to cook and then quit when they get their first couple of paychecks. That's why it's inconsistent. Pay cooks well and they'll work for you for 10-20yrs and the food will be much better. I remember when Olive Garden, Applebees, most of the others were great. There prices were even cheaper and it tasted better. Now they jack up the price and the food tastes like shit. That's why I prefer mom & pop shops. Their more concerned with quality and taste of the food then, KEEPING IT MODERN or UP TO DATE. Red Robin used to be a killer burger joint, now it's shit. Thanx bean counters.
I wonder what oil they use in the salad dressing, on top of all that.
At least it’s not Dollar Tree gnocchi. Or maybe it’s from the same supplier?
Olive Garden original dressing you could get it in your grocery store it’s premixed, Ingredients on the back.
Allowing the employees to pick toppings out of the salad would be more a kitchen manager issue by not yelling at and writing up said employees. The same would go with their cleaning procedures, regardless of what corporate brought down, a manager that’s a good one would make sure their kitchen would run in tip top shape to help keep it clean & healthier for their particular customers.
And even if you think a non-franchised place would be better, as Gordon Ramsey has shown, it’s STILL in the hands of the managers and head chefs to have a great place!
Bottom line is, you do take some risks wherever you go, if you’re not cleaning & preparing the food yourself!
I only eat the salad and breadsticks.
But they took the toasted ravioli off the menu 😩😩😩
It’s back
Almost every grocery store has frozen toasted ravioli
I think their salads are really good 😬 but yikes this video really turned me off.
The 2 I worked at the salad is fine the employees eat it a lot nobody touches the salad with hands and no bugs
Lol thats not so bad. Just think of what they do on cruise ships
Dude I work at olive garden and none of this is true. From the workers taking salad with their hands or the canned chicken. Idk where they're pulling all this from
Real Italians don’t eat at olive garden
Sounds like an ex employee with an axe to grind, something like this, location not doing well, new manager moved in to get the place straightened out, and under performers had to be cut, outer wise, who consume's their time being so pretty.
This “employee” can heck right off
Wow…disgruntled much?! 😂🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
She sounds bitter about something… I have been in hospitality for nearly 20 years and a lot of what she said seems far fetched, simply because at-least one person on the management team would have accountability and give a shit . Don’t get me wrong I’ve ran across plenty of people in restaurants who are only there for a check and there usually east to spot, but no one on the management side of team giving a damn is rare.
The place where your food gets reheated with a microwave
This is like a disgruntled ex-wife accusing the husband of pedophilia and child-abuse during divorce and child custody hearings.
Disgusting. MacDonald's Italian Food for non-Italians.
Sounds like she got fired and is disgruntled and trying to damage the company lol
Unless this Girl can provide me proof with some cell phone photo's of slugs in the soda machine, and employees picking at the Salad Toppings, and Photos of Microwaves being used at the OG she worked, I have no way to know how often these things did or did nor occur. Did she ever call the Health Department and have the OG she worked in inspected by them? That would be the first thing she should have done, before commenting on this Video.
Whatever!! I still and will love Olive Garden salad and all the menu.😡
Geez...what the heck?
Geeze.... What the Hell ☺ oh Gah-lee 😂
Ah come on...I love their salad
This is a hit piece on Olive Garden based on disgruntled staff. Take it with a grain of salt.
If people only knew what went on in the back of restaurants... if you whine about your food being late, chances are even if it falls on the floor, you're gonna get it ASAP just to shut you up. I worked in a steakhouse and was pulled aside and told I wasted too much time washing my hands because if I cleared a table and gathered dirty silverware, I'd wash my hands before handling clean cups, plates, etc... Chain restaurants ONLY care about profit. Locally owned places often genuinely care where chain restaurants are more concerned with not getting hassled by corporate.
Disclaimer: I never worked at an Olive Garden, but several chain pizza restaurants, a steakhouse, sub restaurant, and two coffee shops (jerks will often get unwanted decaf).
That woman is full of bull****.
Nope olive garden’s salad suck that why I don’t eat there anymore 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Olive Garden are the next to the la quinta. Worst Place to eat.