Olive Garden
reviews and complaints

Hello I don't want any coupons. Every single Olive Garden I go to, the timing of the meal is horrible. I can barely get half a bowl of salad eaten and the meal is being delivered to the table. I realize the concept of getting the next customers seated but this is ridiculous and I asked the server to not bring our meal until we were done with our salads. We used to go to the Wallisville road location in Houston but the service was so bad we quit going. There's a brand new location in Summerwood in Houston, we were really hoping it would be better but unfortunately its the same as the other location I mentioned above. The timing of the meal should be something taught to management and servers.

April 15th, 2018 around 3:00pm my boyfriend and I were trying to enjoy your new specials. I was trying the new stuffed fettaccine and he was having a shrimp and chicken dish. There was a gentleman sitting next to us chewing tobacco and spitting in a cup the bartender provided him. I'm a smoker and tobacco is tobacco if I can't smoke in your restaurant he shouldn't be chewing and spitting tobacco. I packed up my food to go, complained to the bartender and the hostess at the door and absolutely nothing was done. It was disgusting and made me loose my appetite.

My bill came to $25 at the location in Bradenton fl I look on my bank statement I was charged $35! I called the manager and she told me she couldn't do anything about it and was very rude. She pulled up my card told me my charge was 250 and repeated she couldn't do anything about it I should take it up with my bank. That was my first and last time visiting one of your locations. As a manager I would think the call would have been handled more professional.

We have made it a tradition to celebrate our 99 year old father's birthday each year at Olive Garden. However this visit will be our last. I'd like to start this out on a positive notes the food was fantastic as always. My immediate family and I eat at our local Triadelphia Olive Garden two to three times a month. And each year 12 family members or more celebrate my dear father's birthday. Our waitress Courtney was so kind at first. As she walked away from our table it seemed intentional for her for her to make sure we heard her comments. Such as "they always give me these old [censor]", (while speaking to another waiter the same waiter she was very SEXual with the entire meal she said "its going to take them forever to eat, ill never leave" my parents are Born and breed Catholics they were emabarassed to even witness such public display of two fellow workers. Neither of my parents ate their meals, after such a horrible experience we wanted out of there as fast as possible. We loved making Olive Garden a part of our yearly celebrations however that was our last visit.

My husband and I had traveled a few states away for cancer treatment. We was so tired and hungry. I ordered our food to go. When I got back to the room with 2 orders of spaghetti and neither had hardly any sauce. I ate a bread stick and a few bites of spaghetti and threw it in the garbage. It cost over $30.00
I never have a problem when eating in the restaurant, but when ordering take out, the cook tends to not make your food the way it should be.
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The servers have zero side work! They can't even throw in a tray of breadsticks. The Togo has to set up the whole alley and then close the whole alley as the servers stand around on their phones. They do whatever they want then the Togo has to constantly clean up their mess, run their food, cash them out the second they ask, put in their food, even when you're complete busy. Olive Garden seems to be the only restaurant where the servers don't do anything at all for the team.

Our waitress Amanda was nice at first but once I paid and asked for bread to go she had completely ignored me for 20 minutes. So before I left I asked a different employee who also gave me attitude and said it's a 10-15 and she handed it to me very aggressively. I thought your bread was unlimited and why you don't want to give out more. I don't think I'll go to Olivie garden for a long while plus the food is not that good. Waste of 54.00 and my time.

My name is Darlene littleford. I would like to make a formal complaint about our server, Brit from location 600 Shoppes at Stroud, Stroudsburg, PA 18360 @[protected]. My family of 5 went to Olive Garden on Saturday, 04/07/18 to celebrate our daughter, Desiree' Littleford's Marywood University Sr. John Leadership Award. Sadly it didn't even feel like a celebration. We were there from 3pm until 5pm. During which time Brit had a stone cold face when we were communicating with her. Dishes were left sitting on the table way too long. She seemed to have an issue with accommodation. She was not polite at all. I felt bad for our daughter. A server can make or break your event or special day. When our meal was over Desiree's special day was broken. We spent about $106.00 plus a 15% tip bringing our total to approximately $121.00. Understand my mother and daughter were upset that we even left that for the server. We are the type of customers that tip 20-25% for excellent service. I felt we made our point leaving the lowest acceptable. Please see that Brit is reprimanded for her lack of good service. Thank you. I was upset with my husband that he didn't hit print a receipt or email. I do not have a paper record however feel free to check any details I have shared. I'm sure the manager can look up our transaction. It is on our bank statement, Debit card. It would be nice if a gift card could be sent so that my daughter could have a better celebration on a later day.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
The Littleford Family

Well, I enjoy dining at olive garden very much but 4/8/18 at the olive garden in southgate, mi... Store # 1172 I had a very upsetting experience. Myself and 4 of my friends planned to go out for dinner, I am the one that talked them into going to olive garden, because of the promotion I saw on television about some new dinners they were serving and special prices. So, we go place our orders and we are having a really nice time, out waitress was very nice and gave us great service. 3 of us ordered one of the new dishes, so when the bill came and was not priced for $12.99 I asked the waitress and told her about the promotion I saw on television she stated that she was not sure and had not seen the commercial and asked if I wanted to see a manager I said sure thinking the manager would know the specials. Well, when we saw him coming toward our table we could already tell he had a attitude, he said you wanted a manager I said yes and proceeded to tell him about the commercial I saw for their promotion, he told me that he had not seen the commercial, so he didn't know about any special prices and he went as far as to tell us 5 adults that when we come back into that restaurant we need to get a manager involved with our ordering. I was so angry when I left that restaurant, our whole evening was ruined... His name was thomas. I was so mad that I called back and spoke with the general manager seth, he apologized and said that he was very sorry that our evening was ruined, but that other [censor] will cause me to not go to that oliver garden again and I will definitely tell others about my experience.

We were at ur restaurant on march 17th 2018 for our 12 year wedding anniversary. It took for ever to get service and then when we finally did get served there was hair in my tour of Italy and I was so disappointed. By the time they brought me a new one mine u it was 3 times smaller then the original my husband was already finished with his meal and ready to leave.

Went to olive garden for lunch after attending mass... We were seated and the waitress came and got our drink order. There were three in my family and only one was brought the drink, the other took about 10 minutes. My husband was going to order the new giant meatball & four cheese manicotti but they ran out of meatballs... My daughter wanted to try the new stuffed fettuccine
Alfredo with chicken and they ran out. We were a disappointed that we had to order something else, although we love the food, we were wanting to try something new.

Meand my family go to Olive Garden once or twice per week to the point to where the staff identified we went there on a Sunday afternoon and got no service whatsoever I took a while for us and that nobody knowledge that we were there this is a place my daughter loves to go to so much going there we were sitting at our table for at least 15 to 20 minutes and no one acknowledged us This is a frequent occurrence at this particular restaurant we just tolerate it

I called ahead to get on the wait list as directed on the Olive Garden phone message. On hold almost 10 minutes. Arrived at the 75th Ave. & Thomas location in Phoenix AZ still on hold. Inquiring about the long hold, the receptionist said her phone didn't show me on hold. I showed her MY PHONE that showed me still on hold. Then she said they don't have a wait list!

Olive garden has a new promotion I received an e-mail about. I use the olive garden to go app. On my phone and placed an order for the new giant meatball and four cheese manicotti. On monday april 2nd at 5:44pm
I went to the restaurant to get my order and when it came out I questioned the server about the appearance of my meal. I stated "that looks nothing like the food I ordered and the giant meatball looks like someone scraped it from the bottom of the pan" to which I was told. "this is a new menu item and I guess that's how it comes out"
I accepted the order as I knew the taste would be fine but appearance has a lot to do with satisfaction. I am sure they would never serve that to a table but a carry out customer picks up and leaves.
See attached photo of what I wanted and what I received.
I don't expect anything more than awareness. I have been in customer service many years and my wife is in the food service business. You don't present things like that.

I am having a serious issue with a service manager named Brianna A. She continues to harass me, use vulgar language, and verbally attack me.I don't know who else to turn to.She makes me feel very uncomfortable.She called a meeting on Monday [protected] and was yelling and using offensive language. " you all are streeing me the (bleep) out " and "I do everything for you all and you (bleep) on me" These were her exact words.Please help

I have enclosed pictures of the original review I posted on Google 10 months ago. I have never heard a response or had this issue resolved. I have also copied and pasted the original review below. Please take this comment into consideration and please provide me with a refund or give card. So I can enjoy the olive garden experience I deserve. I have yet to return to olive garden due to this outstanding issue.

Well my experience here today was absolutely horrible. Our waiter was Anthony T. First he forgot my nephew's soup twice. He forgot the cheese after we reminded him more than once. He swore he took our drink order and never took it and we had finished our salads n bread without even being offered a glass of water. We had to remind him for everything including our sivlerware. He would never remember anything we asked for the first time around. It was absolutely horrible. We had to wait over 15 mins for breadsticks. He then reminded us twice that the tip was not included. I felt as though he was being too pushy for his tip and thats not professional. So at that point we left no tip. So after reminding us that the tip was not included he proceeded to chase us down by the elevator and said there was a problem with the bill. He literally harrassed us and i told him the bill had been paid and there is no problem here n to please leave us alone.last but not least i had the giant stiffed mancotti with mussels a d shrimps. It was also horrible. It lacked in flavor on every level. If someone can contact me that would be great. This was really horrible and i dont think i will be back unless olive garden can resolve this somehow.

Olive Garden 1174 5529 S. Lindbergh, Affton Mo. 2/09/2018 I took my wife to this location and spent a great deal of money here, $55.00 plus tip. We ordered chicken parmesan and chicken alfredo all you can eat special. Our first plate of food was fine but our second plate had very small portion size and very small plates and the food was overcooked and cold. The service was good but the food was not! john stagg [protected]

My husband, daughter, and I were here for lunch (11:00am), and ordered from the lunch menu. My daughter and I ordered the shrimp scampi. I have ordered this dish on many other occasions and it always be more than I can eat in a large bowl. This time it was very small, so we are thinking we had the lunch size since it was on the lunch menu. When we get our ticket to our surprise the price was same as dinner $15.99 when the lunch menu stated $7.99. We asked the waiter and he said that was the dinner size now. This was very deceiving and disappointing! The amount could have be placed on a saucer.

March 24, 2018 Olive Garden approximately 1:30!pm
We traveled 1 1/2 hours to eat at the Beaverton Town Center Olive Garden in Beaverton Oregon. When we arrived it was a 10-15 minute wait . We finally got seated our waitress Christina R brought the 3 of us 4 breadsticks and our drinks we ordered a large Alfredo sauce after being told the small one was very small .Christina took our orders We ordered the appetizer lasagna fritta . And the tour of Italy shrimp Alfredo & chicken Alfredo then 3 cheesecakes to go Finally the salad came I had to ask for more breadsticks. Then awhile passed and Christina said our appetizer was taking a long time and as soon as it was done somebody would bring it right out I again had to ask for more breadsticks I asummed that our waitress would bring us more salad while we waited but no so finally the appetizer came after about 20 minutes or more . Then our meals came right out then again I had to ask for more breadsticks. This time Christina asked if we would like more salad ? The shrimp Alfredo was wrong we were brought shrimp scampi linguini which she corrected. After saying that what was ordered? So I asked for boxes and bags to put our leftovers in the boxes wouldn't stay closed so when Christina came back with the cheesecakes I mentioned that the boxes wouldn't stay closed she said oh I know some of the boxes don't close I'll bring u some tape and you can tape them shut! We waited and waited but our waitress disappeared. So finally I interrupted 2 different waiters for more boxes and bags . Then I was trying to pay the bill the cashier told me that our waitress was the cashier.So I waited while the other 2 people that were with me went to the car . Waited and waited finally someone else helped me with the bill 102.89 before the tip the $1.99 that was charged for touching a game for maybe 3-4 minutes was charged to our bill I was very disappointed in our waitress and the service her disappearing finally my Husband came back in wondering what was taking so long to pay the bill? We waited longer for the promised boxes tap & bags than we did for all of our food. So finally Christina came back and told me she took her break ? I'm sorry I was a waitress for years I wouldn't have treated anyone the way we were treated that day period. I sent a email to the Olive Garden in Beaverton March 24, 2018 no response no phone call no email .Christina could have finished up with us then took her break . I don't think that we will be going to our favorite Olive Garden which we have been going to for years and never treated that way!
My email is [protected]@gmail.com my phone number is+[protected] I am hoping somebody else would contact me ! Horrible service in Beaverton Oregon and then after complaining you would think I would get a response still waiting ? Thank you Lori Clark check# 92850 Table 43 14:32:25 03/24/2018 Olive Garden 1213 Dine In

I was at the Olive Garden in Hamburg New York and I witnessed a manager screaming at her associate. I'm most positive the managers name was Nikki or Nicole. I've witness this manager scream at this associate way to many times. And she seems to always be upset with this worker. I find this unfair and several have noticed this fact and I refuse to go back to the establishment if this does not get fixed.