Olive Garden is launching some fuckin game changers lately. What is going on over there?

I don't hold Olive Garden to any expectations of authenticity, and that meatball pizza bowl sounds pretty good.

Olive Garden is no better than places like Fazolis these days, yet cost at least twice as much.

yes but it comes with a porn contract if you dont mind

Every restaurant uses Sysco, or another food service company, even if it's just for things like napkins and flour.

nigger where do you think restaurants get their ingredients? The shittier ones use sysco meals, but almost all use sysco or similar suppliers for general ingredients, desserts, etc.

t. Sysco idf
I wish you luck, lol.

Are the sysco chicken tendies the amazing ones with that thicc breading? If so where can I buy them?

nice. I hope they become the taco bell of italian food

they're finally bastardizing the "italian" menu they have been shitting on for so long?

>Take a taco salad bowl
>Fill it with spaghetti & meatballs

PROFIT!

is right. Pretty much every hotel and chain restaurant uses Sysco, US Foods. When Sysco was going to buy US Foods it was blocked because it would control 75% of the overall foodservice industry.

I used to work at a hotel which used them (Hampton) and the food is about as generic and bland as you would expect.

>every hotel and chain restaurant uses Sysco
Yeah, but they can't expect the millennials to fall for it like the grey faced, sad tired old boomers did. Even in small or medium sized flyover cities there are local people doing restaurants and food trucks with locally sourced shit and/or with creativity. Chains are cancer, and go bslls to the wall to prevent creativity and innovation.

Well it's a thread about Olive Garden and I can pretty much guarantee they use either Sysco or US Foods. They make custom foods for different chains and a national chain like Olive Garden will want consistency (and best price) above pretty much anything else.

Indies will generally get local distribution because they can't do the volume needed get space on one of their trucks.

Guys seriOusly how haZ this threAd been up for almost 10 hours without anyone posting the obvious?

>Olive Garden forces you to tip and has it calculated on the receipt.

>Hurr I don't know that restaurants get frozen food.
>I get my info from Buzzfeed and other similar minded websites that tell me that only a true hipster like myself eats fresh food, direct from the processing plant.
>That way I know what is in it, because it says "Farm raised" on it.
>I know it's better because despite being the same processed shit it costs me more.

Any restaurant that puts one of these on every table is not a restaurant worth going to.

thats fucking disgusting user

They're just trying to horn in on the Chicago pizza racket.

>stops salting pasta water to extend the warranty on their pots

I thought this was a joke when I first heard it.

Businesses that pinch pennies like this deserve to go bankrupt.

What do you expect from a restaurant in which their line cooks look like this?

I don't judge other people based on their physical appearance. I base other cooks on their hair nets instead of hats. What the fuck, you are not serving deli-meat at an inner-city grocer.

Not criticizing quite yet on this, but what the hell is with the spacing there? You could stand six people shoulder to shoulder between counters.

Hahaha oh fucking wow.

Talk about pinching the penny until you get copper poisoning.

>What do you expect from a restaurant in which their line cooks look like the industry-wide average line cook

>olive garden
>food of a higher grade
they're applebee's tier dreck that's dressed up to look like a Michelin three-star ristorante so they can charge grannies $20USD for a tomato bisque
olive garden more like a lotta garbage

I have never been to an Olive Garden in my life.
There were way too many local Italian places where I grew up. I kind of want to go just to see if it as bad as I think it is. Is it truly Applebee's tier, or is it at least semi decent?

Its not bad and the prices are good. Plus, chicks love it.

I would be deeply embarrassed to bring a girl to Olive Garden. And by deeply embarrassed I mean running the fuck away from her if she loved it because we clearly have different sensibilities as to the worth of eating out.
I kind of want to see if a "Chicken and Shrimp Cabonara" would be as much of a disaster as I think it would be.

you mean they are the only restaurants worth going to
I want as little interaction with the wait staff retards as possible, especially when it comes to splitting a bill up

I would love to see the stats on this thing as far as fat, salt and calories go. This could be the dish that puts the bloomin' onion to shame.
>chicks love it.
I'd be careful around those kinds of chicks. They're probably the same ones who love the Cheesecake Factory and Panera Bread. Even the cute ones like that are destined to be obese middle aged women who will never learn to cook worth a damn and will likely spend half their lives trying to collect disability for back problems or some bullshit like fibromyalgia or lupis.

>dip cheese and chorizo
Is this the chili con queso from Chili's? I hate their food but that chili con queso is junkfood crack.

>all boomers will die during your lifetime
can't wait desu

I’ve never tried something at Chili’s I didn’t like, it’s actually pretty decent for a boomer trap restaurant.

damn yo, I know where I'm taking the missus tonight

reading comprehension dude

That says more about your taste than the quality of the food. It says you like premade frozen shit heated up in the microwave. There's no law against liking that kind of shit, but when you start claiming it's actually good someone is going to call bullshit on you. Today I'll be that user. You have shit taste.

Lol this isn't how sysco works. I have a rep come to my kitchen 3 times a week. She is a brilliant ex chef. I tell her everything i need and she compares prices. If she's not around, i just go online to sysco order site and order what i need. Much of it isn't frozen. Plus the menu of my kitchen rarely changes so I'm ordering the same product 3 times a week. I have a different company i order produce from.

Sysco invites me to these giant food fairs like 4 times a year where like 100 vendors set up booths and you get to try hundreds of new food products. I love going and eating like a pig... also sysco gives me a lot of free product.

My team at work went to olive garden back in November. It was free, so why not? Plus, endless soup, salad, and breadsticks.

We ordered some sort of appetizer that had lots of different things on it, 2 or 3 of each item. Oh wow, they looked great! Instead, it was thoroughly disappointing. Soggy, bland yet salty. Coworkers order their meals. Salad and soup comes out. I like OG's soup, it's pretty ok but I feel like it comes in dehydrated and they add water? Or no ingredients are actually prepped there?
Why is the lettuce always soggy? Why are they so stingy about what "unlimited" means? I ate 4 bowls of salad and 5 bowls of soup and they told me they were currently out but were preparing more.

Also, it's expensive for what you receive. I'd gladly pay $10-$17 at a real restaurant, but not at olive garden. Has anyone worked at one? What is fresh made (besides boiled pasta and salad), what is fried there, and what comes in frozen? Is everything really microwaved? Or Are portions frozen then reheated in a skillet? Are the meats frozen or fresh? Is the red onion in the salad sliced daily? Why is the grated cheese bland and lifeless?

Sysco as a professional necessity makes business sense. It's very convenient to have toilet paper, hand soap, individually portioned cryovac-ed servings of meat and microwavable prepared foods arrive on the same truck like clockwork. It's practically a necessity if you're located in the boonies and your customers are happy eating that. But getting too lazy about what you order from their catalog can easily turn your establishment into Chili's tier trash. Which MAY make good business sense, depending on your customers. But I've watched places that were actually pretty good turn into overpriced trash because the chef lost his heart and started relying on the more novel items in the catalog instead of just buying ingredients and doing actual cooking.

Maybe I'm spoiled because I live in a major city where there are many specialized purveyors, and it's pretty common for restaurants to crow about how they source their ingredients, but I'm skeptical of any place where I regularly see a Sysco or US Foods truck. Again, I'm totally spoiled because I live within walking distance of hundreds of restaurants, but I'll avoid a place where I've seen one of those trucks unloading.

Plenty of restaurants dont use frozen or prepackaged food.

he's autistic don't mind him lmao

Sysco is alright, I usually use maine source up in the NE though.

They have a food show once a year, it's super dope. They throw it at a casino for a few nights, and put up (for free) customers who spend enough money with them, and get a celebrity chef to cook a fancy dinner.

Last year it was Marc Forgione, and he actually cooked it all with all the hotel chefs, and it was fucking delicious. Got drunk as fuck, gambled a bunch, 10/10 would go again.

Found the paid sysco / olive garden shill.

Its shit microwaved food. If I wanted that I can buy a hot pocket at a gas station and get the same result.

Taking a WOMAN to olive garden? No wonder this is the land of virgins. Who are you trying to impress, meth addicts?

Also can't wait for all the boomers with shit taste to clock out.

This is me. How the fuck is that post a Sysco/Olive Garden shill? I stated I AVOID eating in places where I see Sysco/US Foods trucks unloading. Learn to fucking read, you idiot.

Now I don't have to leave Nebraska to try Chicago deep dish!

Absolutely nothing wrong with Sysco. They have millions of products, anything you'd like. They have a bad reputation because ignorant people see them outside of a undesirable restaurant. But it's the restaurant that ordered the cheap ingredients. It's hard to believe people have something against Sysco.

Millenials love frozen fast food trash, they're just smart enough to know they can get it for half the price in a box at wal-mart

Hate the place but met up with some friends for lunch last week since they like it. We asked about the pizza bowl and the waiter said it was crap. She says it is more like a soup then a pizza in consistency and to hold off on ordering it until they get it right since its new to the menu.

Olive Garden is a joke. They are probably doing really badly and its desperation mode.

Nebraska is great. At least, it used to be. Low crime, solid families, peaceful. Looks beautiful in the fall.

I hear Omaha is rife with blacks now. Oh well.

This is some chi'za right there.

>Taking a WOMAN to olive garden? No wonder this is the land of virgins. Who are you trying to impress, meth addicts?

BINGO! This is redneck Alabama in a nutshell. Dumb beyootch thinks Olive Garden or Red Lobster is high class dining, a "special" night out. And it IS, for trailer park white trash. Besides, the pasta is mushy, so Meth Mouth Bubba can chew on it OK.

>They have a bad reputation because ignorant people see them outside of a undesirable restaurant.
This is because a lot of bad restaurants sell heat and eat garbage companies like Sysco and US Foods happily sell them, along with cleaning supplies and paper products. Plenty of good restaurants use them as well, because they sell a lot of good stuff. But they're associated with laziness in the kitchen - using shit like powdered soup base and heat and eat frozen items. The prejudice can really be summed up with the following question: Do you really want your meat coming off the same truck as your cleaning products?

fug

fuck you

>game changers
Nice buzzword, faggot. Get the fuck out of here with your shitty "viral" marketing. Olive Garden blows, and will always blow.

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>olive garden
might aswell just go to your local meth addict and have him stick his finger in your mouth for lunch

All the white people live in west omaha, we keep expanding westward into new mc mansions and the niggers/spics live in the older eastern parts.

I work at an Olive Garden and they also have these nacho looking things. And I have to correct all of these ignorant posts about the types that eat there. I see extremely attractive girls going to Olive Garden with no males accomanying. Also qts getting to-go orders. I don't really eat the shit because it's overpriced shit even with a 50% discount. I do eat the soup and salad since it's $1 for employees.

>game changer
its literally just a strayan poie

lol

>soup and salad since it's $1 for employees.
time to get a job at olive garden

Another failing restaurant chain trying to remain relevant by appealing to younger people. The problem is the younger people know better than to pay restaurant prices for reheated frozen food.

This. Any kid who grew up watching the Food Network isn't going to spend their limited money at the Olive Garden when for the price of a meal there they could get the ingredients to make three better meals at home. If you know what good food is and how to cook it places like the Olive Garden are useless to you. Because you're cooking better at home, and saving up so when you do go out it's to a much better place.

True. When I do eat out, it's usually at one of the food trucks in the neighborhood which serve great food at reasonable prices. I went to Red Lobster with the family one time, and the food barely taste any better than a frozen t.v. dinner while costing several times more.

Places like the Olive Garden are for people who care about "going out to eat" more than the food they're actually eating. And it tastes good to them because it's similar to the heat and eat crap they buy from the supermarket at eat at home. But someone who is actually into food and cooking would neither buy that crap at the supermarket nor pay to go out to eat it. If they can't afford to go out to a nice restaurant with good food they'll get it from a truck or food hall before settling for mediocre or bad food.

I am also better than everyone

Better when it comes to taste in food that those eating at the Olive Garden? Of course. That's a pretty low bar.

It depends. If it's anywhere near an army base or an urban market, it's going to be shit. If it's in, say, suburan Utah, it's not that bad for microwaved food. I (guiltily) loved it until I went to one in Milwaukee. A 45-minute wait for what amounted to a burnt Hungy Man TV dinner.

I haven't been in 8 years now. I still miss their salads, I'm embarassed to say.

I will make a restaurant serving only blocks of melted cheesy. There will be hot sauce and grated parmesan at the tables.