Former Manager Of Times Square Olive Garden Shares His Craziest Customer Stories
By Mark PygasNov. 18 2019, Updated 2:30 p.m. ET
Olive Garden is great and all, but no amount of free bread sticks will ever make me enter the massive restaurant they have at Times Square. The place seems like a hectic tourist trap, and by the sounds of it, that's a pretty accurate description.
Twitter user Joe Wadlington recently went on a date with the guy who once ran the restaurant, and came back to Twitter with some pretty crazy stories.
Clearly, he'd seen some shit. So the next hour and a half was me asking questions. I tried to do y'all right.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Things were mundane enough to start with...
"They kept saying, 'OLIVE GARDEN DOESNT DO THAT, our Olive Garden, in Ohio, doesn't do that."
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Q: National pricing or city pricing?
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
A: City pricing. It made no sense why the Americans were there. They were paying 3x for the same food.
Note: I think he may have been trying to impress me here.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Note, note: It worked.
Q: That's too much food for one person
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
A: It's too much food for three people
Q: How much?
A: Maybe $25
A: Not on my shifts. But if someone wanted to, Olive Garden would not let us remove them. They are "family" and would be allowed to eat.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Then stuff started getting crazy...
Q: What's the weirdest thing that ever happened?
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
A: Oh, there was a knife fight.
Q: Tell me everything.
A: Two women. They came together.
them apart and put one in the elevator going down to the 1st floor. They were on the third floor. The 2nd woman broke away and ran down the
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Q: So only one woman had a knife.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
A: The other woman picked up a knife off a different table. So the other manager, he was a huge guy, 6'6"
deal with it out there.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Q: Did they still have the knives?
A: No, he took them.
Q: Did he give them breadsticks?
A: What? No.
Q: Sorry.
A: No.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Q: Wait. You said the shifts where you ran out of breadsticks were the worst. Worse than the shift with a knife fight?
Reader, I married him. 💐
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017
Well, I'm never visiting this restaurant.
