Olive Garden Future?

What do you guys think about thr fallout for Olive Garden as activist investment company Starboard Value made public their review of the company's operations? I never been to Olive Garden and after reading there review i will never go

What did the review say? I love olive garden

Well it was mostly a slam on the parent company, they just sold off red lobster cheaply, which screams problems. Most of the complaints specific to olive garden, was food waste, overly large menu, flavor issues and suggestions on what can be done to sell more (suggest alcohol).

It was more like a Come to Jesus report/presentation. Like get your s*** together or you might lose more than just red lobster, Brand loyalty and habit only goes so far when there are other places to eat, and people in general are more conscious of where their dinning out dollars are going.

Or did you want the actual 300slide power point report, because I could dig that up too.

heres a link to the article
https://www.businessinsider.com/olive-garden-food-vs-reality-2014-9

Olive Garden food is pretty bad IMO. Last time I went the food tasted like something that came from the frozen aisle at the grocery store, but for $15. No thanks. If I want crappy microwave dinners (I don't) I'll stay at home.

Most chain restaurant food is pretty bad, but as for italian, Carraba's and Macaroni Grill are far superior to Olive Garden (and actually good considering they're chains).

On the other hand I know a lot of people who think Olive Garden is fantastic, so what do I know.

I prefer The Olde Spaghetti Factory. That place is awesome.

Ive never had Carraba's or Macaroni Grill, maybe I'll try them out someday.

Bumping old threads. I thought this said Olive Garden Furniture and now have a craving for for a new nightstand. With Alfredo sauce.

Wow! So did I (Furniture, no sauce) ... I thought it would be something about them selling off assets

.. 'course I'm also putting off having to move some furniture and cleaning to make room for the Christmas tree .... so furniture was on the mind.

That's been my experience with the Olive Garden, which has earned the nickname "sugar shack" with me. Ate three meals there and every time my blood sugar has spiked to "hi", which means it's over 500 or too high for my blood sugar monitor to register, the last meal was some kinda never ending veggie bowl, which I figured was safe-nope.

I'll add, for non diabetic folks, normal blood sugar is 80-120.

Sometimes it's easier to just get a new place rather than arrange furniture.

The only thing I've ever learned about cleaning ovens is just to move every few years.