text: I have dined at Olive Garden for many years Not this specific location but many others I find that ones experience at this chain is either very good or very bad There is no in between it seems Went with of my coworkers for lunch We got there relatively early so as to avoid the lunch crowd for what we thought would be about an hour dining experience WRONG From the moment our waiter arrived at the table I knew this was not going to be good Mike was brash and unfriendly He seemed genuinely annoyed to have to wait on us and it seemed like during the entire dining experience he had much better things to do nnIt took what seemed like forever to receive our drinks once he took the order Then as soon as he took our order he literally disappeared We did not see him anywhere in the restaurant This being Arizona and hot our drinks were quickly consumed No Mike waitwaitwait some more Finally a server who was not ours asked if we would like drink refils After answering in the affirmative waiters who were not ours showed up with the salad bowls and breadsticks Mike soon showed up and delivered a few of the extra items we had ordered but did not have the extra dressing I requested I politely asked again for extra dressing for my salad he again seemed annoyed at my existence and left No sooner had I served myself a bowl of salad the entrees showed up uhtiming anyone Salad is served and eaten first before entrees are delivered Again this part of the meal was served by someone other than Mike I had ordered the Lasagne Classico and the serving was much smaller than I remembered but I ate it anyway certainly not worth the they soaked me for Halfway through the Lasagne Mike showed up with my extra dressing geethanks It was obvious at this time we required more drink refills but off he went again to disappear We again flagged down another server to refill drinks My dining companions who had endless soup waited nearly minutes for someone to notice they might like more and that our salad bowls needed refilling the salad bowls needed refilling long before However someone who appeared to be in management had more soup brought out and another bowl of salad and breadsticks nnMike finally started coming back around and being attentive to our needs just in time to leave us our checks Though I felt he had earned ZERO I still left him a fair tipnnWhat could have been a nice leisurely lunch was essentially ruined by our servers careless and unfriendly attitude and the lack of good service It seemed like everyone but our server waited on us And yet we essentially we had to ask for everything before we got it I do not feel this Olive Garden really cares about their customers or doing things the right way Surely we are not the first customers to complain about this guys unfriendly demeanor and constant disappearing act nnIf my coworkers insist on returning to this particular OG in the future we have already agreed that if they attempt to seat us in Mikes area we are requesting a different server PersonallyI do not think I will be back This place just does not seem to care and the smaller portions did not wow me There is so much better out there to choose from at lunch time and OG should remember this