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Why America Is Addicted to Olive Garden (fastcompany.com)
4 points by mighty on July 2, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Stopped Reading here:

Employees, he says, need to believe that serving meals and cleaning tables and cooking pasta in a hot kitchen is meaningful. "It's very difficult for the experience of the guests to exceed the experience of the staff," Pickens says. "We put the two together."

I've had 4 different friends who have worked at various Olive Gardens (3 for longer than 2-3 years). All of them hated it.


They serve shitty food, charge a lot and spend millions on advertising to make you think you're buying something good.




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