How do they do it? How does based Olive Garden continue to make billions in profits operating with their menu?
>come in and be seated >FREE SALAD AND BREADSTICKS >make your own pasta choosing from 8 different pastas and 8 different sauces >add chicken or sausage >$9.99
Absolute madness. They are one of the most successful restaurants in the history of America and they continue to offer incredible value and great service.
They have to be sheltering money in a tax haven, correct? We should all head on down to Olive Garden today and order dinner and demand answers.
What do we think Veeky Forums
Isaiah Butler
>They have to be sheltering money in a tax haven, correct?
No, they just have an unusually low ingredient cost. Pasta is a the bulk of their business and it's terribly cheap.
Logan Thomas
Bread is cheap, salad is cheap, sauces are cheap... I doubt that $9.99 meal costs them more than like $1.50 to make.
Alexander Wright
economies of scale.
Ryder Moore
Iceberg lettuce is painfully expensive in Obama's America, Roma tomatoes too!
Chase Ramirez
The boring Veeky Forums reason is that olive garden is owned under an umbrella corporation that owns 6 other restaurant chains. They can fall on their face quarter after quarter and still be buoyed by one of the other subsidiaries.
but you already knew that.
Kayden Turner
Olive Garden is a nice restaurant and I don't get why people shit on it.
Like, applebees, chinese and mexican food places can be so much worse, and you get a nice bowl of pasta for about 8 bucks. most locations are pretty comfy too
Luke Reyes
>not actually reading the menu
Chase Richardson
Applebees>Olive Garbage
Gabriel Lewis
What? I don't ever buy iceberg, but roma tomatoes are somewhat of a staple for me, and they're dirt cheap even retail, wholesale they've got to be almost free.
Wyatt Davis
applebees is fucking garbage just like your opinion and probably face
Anthony Robinson
>Nice bowl of pasta
If by "nice" you mean luke-warm and served with jarred sauce then yes, Olive Garden is a great place to go for some "nice" pasta. Literally the only restaurant I've ever eaten at where I wouldn't go back (I've eaten at 2 different olive gardens for the record).
Isaac Moore
how is that any different than a pf changs or a red robin
Jack Brooks
Never been to those, so I can't speak for them. The chinese food places I order from are pretty decent though and burgers from places like applebees and chiles are decent.
Angel Watson
>only restautant where I wouldn't go back >eaten at 2 different olive gardens
So you went back then
Lucas Cook
Olive Garden is a nice place to go if you're a piece of shit with nothing to do. I spent 2 hours ripping through mildly interesting never-ending pasta bowl combinations once and it was an alright way to spend an afternoon. I wouldn't go there for a nice meal, but if you're looking to eat a great quantity of pasta it's an option.
Nolan Sullivan
It's some where to take Grandma on her birthday when all she has is dentures and has 30% of her taste buds left. That being said, for the price and as much as you can get for even mediocre to okay edible pasta, it's not super bad. Not like Fazolis.
Jack Martinez
this although its probably more like 3-4 bucks to make
James Miller
No chain is going to let it's food cost be 40%
Panera Bread operates at 26.5% food cost >t. Former employee and manager-in-training
And it's only even that high because of deli meats and buying "healthy" alternative source foods. I'd say Olive Garden is squeezing like 20% food cost.
Hunter Barnes
>freshly prepared
weasel words for reheating canned/frozen sauce
I seriously doubt they make their sauces from scratch. They aren't claiming they do
Jeremiah Wood
na, max 2.50. 4x is the standard markup for a restaurant
