Olive Garden is an interesting place. It rakes in cash, yet the food isn’t that great (or even really good!). Then again, people who go to Olive Garden shouldn’t be expecting food straight from Rome.
Anyway, the Times Square Olive Garden location is probably one of the busier Olive Gardens (though the concept of going to an Olive Garden when you’re in New York City is ludicrous). How do I know this? Oh I don’t, but I am assuming seeing as it’s massive and in, you know, Times Square, New York City.
Now imagine being the General Manager at such a big Olive Garden, with tourists from all over the globe streaming in and out of the restaurant. One Twitter user got an inside look at what it’s like after he went on a date with the former GM of the place and quizzed him about his experiences.
I went on a date last night and the guy meekly shared that he used to be THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE TIMES SQUARE OLIVE GARDEN.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
You’re damn right there’s a thread! Here is all of it in its glory.
Q Did y'all ever run out of breadsticks? If so what happened?
A Yes. Twice. Worst shifts of my life. People were angry, kept telling us "no"— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Imagine that conversation?
Waiter: Hi, we are out of breadsticks!
Customer: No.
Waiter: I’m sor-
Customer: No.
Waiter: There’s nothing I can do. We are out of bre-
Customer: No.
Waiter: Here’s a coupon for 50% off pas-
Customer: OLIVE GARDEN DOESN’T DO THAT!
Q: Was everyone from Ohio?
A: Brazil, Puerto Rico, & Ohio. The foreigners I understood. They'd grown up watching O.G. commercials.— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
A: How big is it?
Q: Three floors. It may be the biggest Olive Garden in the world. The wait was always 2 hours. Our last seating was at 2AM— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Two hours. Who on Earth would wait *two hours* for Olive Garden when better Italian places are all over the city?
Also, wait. THREE FLOORS!?
Note: I think he may have been trying to impress me here.
Note, note: It worked.— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Q: What was the most popular dish?
A: The tour of Italy
Q: What?
A: It's a plate of lasagna, a chicken parmesan, & one fettuccine alfredo— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Q Did anyone order the unlimited soup/salad/breadsticks and stay for 8 hours?
A Why would someone do that?
Q You said they were Americans.— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Americans would do that. I want to do that. Who’s joining me?
Q: That's really good to know.
A: People can't eat that much bread.
[I started laughing because he's wrong]— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Q: Steak knives? Like the knives from the table or BYOK?
A: From the table. So, it started out as a fist fight and the other manger pulled— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
THERE WAS A KNIFE FIGHT?! How do we not have video of this? DOES ANYBODY HAVE VIDEO OF THIS?
Stairs. She stopped the elevator on the 2nd floor and grabbed a knife off someone's table.
A: someone else's knife?!
Q: yes— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
ran down there and pulled them apart again. They were on the first floor at this point. And he threw them out into the street. So they could
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
A: What happened after that?
Q: I don't know. They were outside, so they weren't our problem anymore
A: Would you say they're still "family"— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
It’s a shame they didn’t have breadsticks to fight with instead of knives. Then again, the fight could’ve continued with knives if they were friends with Rafi from The League.
A: You may be surprised, but yes, Olive Garden running out of breadsticks is worse than a knife fight.
Q: No, I totally get it.— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
End of story. What a beautiful ending. What a beautiful story.
Reader, I married him. ?
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Hopefully, they won’t be celebrating with a $400 (apiece) New Year’s Eve dinner at…the Times Square Olive Garden.
@JoeWadlington wait, what
— Joanne (@joanne_stocker) April 19, 2017
@JoeWadlington Wait what
— Patrick deHahn (@patrickdehahn) April 19, 2017
@JoeWadlington WAIT WAT
— Alp Ozcelik (@alplicable) April 19, 2017
@JoeWadlington marry him
— sonia saraiya (@soniasaraiya) April 19, 2017
DID THEY ACTUALLY GET MARRIED? Probably not, assuming the date was apparently last night.
Joe Wadlington hasn’t responded to his last tweet, except to point out his thread made Twitter Moments.
Turned into a Moment for easy reading:
❌⭕️https://t.co/dWi2QhwKrM— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Here’s the thing: if they did get married, that means they got married after their first date. That really is love at first sight/breadstick/knife fight.
[Twitter]