Restaurant Review: Olive Garden

The restaurant I am going to share my experience with you about is Olive Garden. My husband and I visited Olive Garden two weeks ago and had a very good time, once we got to our table. It was a Sunday afternoon, so of course it was busy, so we went to the greeters station and waited for one of the three greeters to acknowledge us. We stood there for about a minute before the head greeter got the persons attention that was supposed to get our name and number in our party. He was very friendly once he realized we were standing there, but he was just a little too involved in what he was doing, since he neglected his responsibility to greet the customers. We were told that it would be about a twenty minute wait, which was fine with us. However, the entire time we waited, the head greeter never smiled. She was able to get her job done, but didn’t look like she wanted to be there.

Once we were seated our waitress introduced herself and offered us a sample of wine, which we both decline because we aren’t wine drinkers. She also pointed out the waiter that was working in the same area in case we needed something and she wasn’t around. I found this to be very nice, since I know waiters and waitresses can get very busy. Once we made our selections, I ordered the cheese stuffed rigatoni and chicken with minestrone soup and my husband ordered the cheese stuffed rigatoni and sausage with the Zuppa Toscana soup and breadsticks, our soup and breadsticks came very quickly. We were offered parmesan cheese for our soup and they were both very good. I liked that they were a eatable temperature, some places you go have their soup so hot, you have to wait 10 minutes before you can eat it. Once we finished, our waitress asked if we would like more soup or breadsticks, we declined because we wanted to enjoy our main course. When our food came, it looked and smelled wonderful, and tasted just as good. Our waitress checked on us a couple of times throughout our meal and kept our drinks full. Once we ate all we could, our waitress put our leftovers in to-go containers and gave us our bill. It was a wonderful and tasty experience.