Don't Eat at the Olive Garden

[MRT144]

the thing i hate about the olive garden is their marketing of it as "authentic italian food". i think every italian american who goes there and isnt white trash, or doesnt have any cooking skill should be shot

[Evil Knevil]

True... there is no such thing as a decent chain-store restaurant!
Do you have Frank and Benny's in the US? They're pretty much the same deal, and they're putting all tge decent local Italians out of business. Cunts! The food isn't even good.

[Alexander's Horse]

Are there any restaurants in America that aren't part of a chain of some sort?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Are there any restaurants in America that aren't part of a chain of some sort?

Yes, the really fancy rich ones that cost a thousand dollars to eat at.

[SpencerH]

I got a nasty food poisoning from a chain restaurants seafood gumbo. It was too fast for either salmonella or E. coli (2hrs to onset and very severe) so it looked like a toxemia caused by S. aureus. Luckily I only had a small bowl of gumbo! The key to staph food poisoning is that re-heating the food wont prevent it since it's caused by a heat-resistant toxin.

Moral of the story, avoid food in these types of restaurants that isnt freshly prepared before serving.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Moral of the story, avoid food in these types of restaurants that isnt freshly prepared before serving.

Why? Most of the diseases come form the farms, slaughter houses, and meat packing factories.


The moral of the story, if there is one, is to avoid factory farmed meat.

[Static Universe]

Re: Don't Eat at the Olive Garden

Originally posted by Ramo
I got a particularly nasty case of food poisoning over there a couple days ago. When I went to see a doctor about it, he said that he gets lots of cases of food poisoning from the Olive Garden.

I'm not sure if this is due to the lack of proper regulations across the entire chain or one(s?) in Austin in particular, but it probably isn't a great idea to go to that restaurant unless you have to.

Having eaten in many Olive Gardens over the years (never my first choice), I can tell you the Olive Gardens in Austin stand out as particularly atrocious. While I lived there, my (ex)fiance's Texan family used to drag us there all the time, as they thought that was really good Italian food. Being Italian myself, from a city with a lot of really good Italian restaurants, I had to silently disagree with that.

[Sava]

Don't Eat at the Olive Garden

already knew that....

that sucks about the food poisoning... I've been down that road before

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
What about Chili's?

I see why you're confused.
Chili's sounds a lot like Olive Garden.


Monte Cristo, at Bennigan's.

[Sten Sture]

The Olive Garden and Red Lobster are/were? both owned by General Mills (GIS).

KFC is part of the Pepsi spin off Tricon Global (YUM) that included Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Chili's is owned by Brinker International (EAT).


Olive Garden probably uses raw eggs in their salad - if you want to eat there safely, have the soup instead before your entré.

[Static Universe]

Originally posted by Sten Sture

KFC is part of the Pepsi spin off Tricon Global (YUM) that included Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Tricon Global just changed their names to Yum! Brands, not that that's any better of a name.

Here's an interesting quote from their website (bolds in original):

Best of all our name underscores our passion to put a Yum on peoples' faces around the world-- reinforcing everything we're doing to improve restaurant operations through Customer Mania and to lead the way in multibranding innovation.

This is the year of Customer Mania, where we're driving it deep all across our system. Along with our franchise partners, we're training 725,000 Customer Maniacs who'll make sure that our customers will see a difference in their restaurant experience.

Yum!

I feel really, really sorry for the 725k people who are going to have to endure the "Customer Maniac" training course and then serve that disgusting food with a smile.

[Jac de Molay]

"Customer Maniac" Reminds me of the humilation of my fast food working days.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Osweld

Why? Most of the diseases come form the farms, slaughter houses, and meat packing factories.

Salmonella and E. coli contamination come from poor food processing but those types of 'food poisoning' can be avoided by cooking the food thoroughly. Thats not the case with staphlococcal 'food poisoning'.

The moral of the story, if there is one, is to avoid factory farmed meat.

I guess you dont eat out much then do you.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by cyclotron7
Yeah, the olive garden is no good. Doesn't the same company own and operate Red Lobster, too?

Don't go to KFC either. We had a case here where somebody asked for two extra biscuits at a KFC drive-thru window, and it turned out that "2 extra biscuits" was the codeword for the KFC employee's pot dealing. The customer got two bags of weed along with his chicken, and the employee was arrested.

Actually, nevermind, do go to KFC.

Sounds like a good deal to me

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by SpencerH
I guess you dont eat out much then do you.

When I do it's vegetarian.

(and, for that reason, I do not eat out much - vegetarian food can be surprisingly hard to find)