A coworker of mine is getting blindly accused by a server about stealing. My coworker never causes problems, never had any complaints or written ups over the good amount of years working with Olive Garden. Manager wouldn’t listen at all to what my coworker had to say and telling them to make a statement instead. Witnessing this happening especially in front of guest is wild to me and extremely unprofessional for sure. Is there a way to dispute this while the situation is under investigation? What can they do to fight against this kind of slander because mind you they couldn’t find proof at all. They’re worried about termination especially when someone else got fired for almost a similar situation. They’re also scared if calling HR might ruin their investigation and get terminated out of retaliation due to being a at will state

so i got the pasta pass, i know the rules say its for dine in only.

but if i go in person and ask for it to go… would the employees mind? plan on tipping like i’d be sitting down, anyway, but obvi they wouldn’t know that going into it.

otherwise, i plan on sitting down and just asking for a box with my meal from the beginning. just feel like the former would save both of our times?

Tomorrow I shall start doubling / make a collage

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All Pasta Passes priced at $100 unless otherwise stated.

Switched to Dine-In Only starting 2016. Previous To Go was 1 full-size bowl, salad or soup, 2 breadsticks.

Hello fellow gardiens,

I’m moving and the olive gardens local to where i’m moving aren’t looking for new servers. I have interviews with the longhorn steakhouse and yard house out there in the next few days and am wondering if any of you have experience working at either of these. I’m a student available on one weekday and fri-sun, typically closing shift. Any idea of the $ between these two? Any tips for either one, or which you would choose in this situation? Let me know!

Thanks guys

I saw a few posts in here a week ago about auto gratuity coming to OG. Can any GMS or Managers confirm if this is true?

Sorry I've never been and want to go but will only go if this is available, thanks.

Shocking update! Still 80k ahead of me

i keep trying to log in so i can post a shift and they keep showing me this 😭😭 is anyone else having this problem? does it mean anything?

Hi! I have an interview tomorrow to be a host and I'm wondering what kind of questions they ask. Especially any situational questions, those always make me really nervous so I'd like to prepare beforehand!

During and after the 7/16/26 Pasta Pass contest, comments ​have been made here that we were told to not refresh when attempting to buy a Pass.

Looking for those precis​e instructions and any related to refreshing, I've spotted them in 2 places: 1 - ​by the BUY NOW button, 2 - once inside the line / queue.

Both places say "No need to refresh." So how do you interpret this?

A = We're taking care of things for you. We'll let you know where you stand. So don't refresh. You still can if you want to.

B = Don't refresh at all! Doing so can cause you to lose your place and start all over. We highly advise against it.

C = Something else

Please reply, and feel free to explain your reasoning.

Primary customer complaint is they wish they were told immediately once all Pasta Passes were sold. Some expressed their discontent on social media, how they were kept waiting for an update on their screens as Olive Garden originally promised that never came.

"Joining queue" was also a source of frustration. That message stayed solid for 1+ hours for some contestants. A married couple wondered, "Just how long does it take to join a queue?" ​ (Some here also saw that message, very confuse​d.)

Others found the overall process faulty. The contest was officially declared over at 4PM Eastern on other Olive Garden pages, yet some participants kept seeing messages past then to stay in line because they still had a chance.

Some Olive Gardens here reported pulling 3 of their soups over the weekend ​because of a carrot recall. Salads were also suspended because of the Taylor Farms situation.

To restore ounces of hope, I wanted to report that Sunday went fine at the OG I visited in Northern California. Salads and soups were served and we were asked if we wanted more.

So may this spread nationwide! Good luck!

Yesterday at 9 am we were instructed to stop serving salads and throw away any boxes of lettuce from Taylor farms specifically if they were made in Mexico, and that we were not allowed to buy it elsewhere. Our hosts are informing guests before seating, surprisingly we only had about 40 people all day yesterday that opted to not be sat…. About an hour ago we were instructed to pull all of our soups, except zuppa, and not to serve our broccoli. 🫪

Is it still a thing? I checked the menus online and saw nothing about unlimited soup.

This article quotes 4 OG Redditors. Its primary source is the post of someone trying to make some sense of it all, wondering about the legitimacy and coordination of the 7/16/26 Pasta Pass sale. It also refers to those who successfully purchased a Pasta Pass while others waited and waited in line. They couldn't understand how some who were considerably behind them bought a Pasta Pass while they who were significantly ahead remained stuck there and lost.

While the article speaks to the safeguards taken to make the sales process more secure, others believe some bots got through anyway.

The article also mentions a user who admitted they wrote a "Python script to skip the entire line." Further investigation reveals some challenged the validity of this claim, referring to it as purposely crafted "ragebait" or a "larp." Still, in this subreddit and more social media channels, some observers wonder how many participants complied with the sale's basic "BUY NOW" instructions while others potentially gamed the system engaging in questionable activities like coding programs and reverse engineering the site.

Writings from 4 distinct users are seen when clicking on the article's links leading to 2 OG Reddit posts created Thursday 7/16/26.

Posts containing quoted material were named "Did any real people actually get pasta pass?" and "How long are you waiting for the pasta pass?"

Links for the actual posts and specific segments featuring a quoted Redditor will appear next in a reply below.

Article published 7/16/26 at 6:11 PM Eastern by Tasting Table.

Can someone explain this? And all of the hype? Why’s everyone mad or excited…

Only 80k people left before my turn!

I've seen some people say they were at like 30k and their order number was only like 600 so im wondering what was the highest number of people yalk were behind and were still able to get a pass

To all my OG employees, what do you think the odds are that they will make the hot honey chicken bites a permanent appetizer? They are so good and I really want it to be permanent. I've been requesting they make it permanent when I fill out the survey on the ziosk thing after paying the last few time I went lol

so I’ve been at Olive Garden and working as a server for the past 7 1/2 months and always been scheduled fine with no issues this week though I checked my schedule and noticed that I didn’t even get a schedule for next week and I can’t even scroll to the days next week. I haven’t had any problems or gotten in any trouble at all since I’ve been there and never been warned about my schedule getting taken away. I have been giving up a lot of my shifts recently because a lot of my coworkers need them more than I do and I’m just trying to help them out, but I’m also saving up money for college so not getting scheduled at all definitely hurts my finances. I just called the store and the To-Go manager answered and said “i have no idea i can’t help you, just pick up shifts if you want to work” but nobody posts shifts because it’s the slow season so I have no idea what to do. I’ll leave a picture of my krowd app linked to show what it looks like. Any advice or knowledge would be great.

I got a hankering for olive garden yesterday and I kept trying to order online for pick up. The house salad is not available in my state now. Due to the outbreak. Do y'all know when it might be back?

I’m sorry but what? I never once thought “oh I wish they’d update this.” Worked for the company for 7 years. Almost everything about it is worse. It’s like they didn’t even ask the employees what they thought they should change to improve it. Theres like a whole ass 2 second lag every time you click something 😭 im grieving the old dash. It makes my job so much more annoying. I could write a whole novel about all the things I hate about it.