text: I honestly do not understand the popularity of this place It is a chain nothing is cooked up by someone is Great Grandma with a secret recipen The Salad and breadsticks are fine The food seems to be mostly heated up frozen chicken patties etc Cannot I just go to Costco and get the same stuffn The pasta is a joke seriously how cheap can you get Pasta is what cents a pound We ordered Chicken Parm and thought the pasta portion was hysterical for the price Mainly because a real old school Italian place will give you enough to share with family or just take home So to us it was pricey for or whatever it costn The waiter was fabulous he was really on top of things The atmosphere was great the seats are uncomfortablen What Olive Garden has is an A in marketing They stuff you full of a simple salad and bread so you will not notice dinner is kind of a rip off The salad bowl is shaped a certain way to make it look huge all kinds of stuff like that I have to hand it to them though they are a total genius at making people thrilled over very little For the Olive Garden fans glad you enjoy it but it just does nothing for me Admittedly I was spoiled by old school Italian cooking from my Grandfather