What is your honest opinion of the Olive Garden Restaurant?

Your answers could encompass service, atmosphere, menu, and quality of the food. Sometimes comedians refer to the restaurant as the fast food of Italian cousine. What are your thoughts?

What are you people...New York City food critics or something??? The food is excellent and the service is topnotch cause "I" work there. Who asked for your lameass opinions anyway??? Oh...wait a minute...I did...oops. Carry on.

Quality is iffy

Service is fair at best

Menu is limited

Atmosphere is good

The food isn't really fast food quality, but it not home style and often, the salad is less than par. The highlight of the place is the breadsticks. It's like the Red Lobster (if you can ever find one) the entrees are marginal, the bread is phenomenal.

I haven't been to one in a while, but over the years I have eaten a few.

My assesment is that Macaroni Grill is WAY better for basically the same kind of thing.

Olive Garden is the fast food of Italian food, so that's definitely not a joke. The food is OK at decent prices, but not terribly authentic.

It's a good value for families and large groups and caters to those that probably don't frequent a lot of authentic and good Italian restaurants.

The service, like the food, is fast & friendly without a lot of depth or character.

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The food is not "excellent" unless you've never been to "real" Italian restaurant. I didn't say it sucked, but if you truly think OG is great, you probably live in a small city or you need to get out more.

It's o.k. for cheap fake italian food. I lived in Delaware for most of my life where all the Italian restauraunts are authentic mom and pop shops run by Italians. So it doesn't even compare to real italian restaurants. As for service it's half way decent depending on the area your in. As for example the one here in Cheyenne, Wy sucks. The servers have 2 table sections and can't handle them and as a server that ridiculus. I can handle up to 8 and still give great service. The wait is close to 2 hrs long. So the one here not even worth going to.