Twitter Thread: Ex-Olive Garden Manager's Wild Work Stories

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    Font - Product - Joe Wadlington * Follow @JoeWadlington I went on a date last night and the guy meekly shared that he used to be THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE TIMES SQUARE OLIVE GARDEN. RETWEETS LIKES 1,001 4,723 9:08 AM - 19 Apr 2017 6 101 17 1.0K 4.7K + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Replying to @JoeWadlington So the next hour and a half was me asking Clearly, he'd seen some questions. I tried to do y'all right. 17 71 806
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    Font - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q Did y'all ever run out of breadsticks? If so what happened? A Yes. Twice. Worst shifts of my life. People were angry, kept telling us "no" t7 109 1.1K + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 "They kept saying, 'OLIVE GARDEN DOESNT DO THAT, our Olive Garden, in Ohio, doesn't do that." 17 86 935 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Q: Was everyone from Ohio? A: Brazil, Puerto Rico, & Ohio. The foreigners I understood. They'd grown up watching O.
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    Rectangle - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Q: National pricing or city pricing? A: City pricing. It made no sense why the Americans were there. They were paying 3x for the same food. 17 44 745 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 A: How big is it? Q: Three floors. It may be the biggest Olive Garden in the world. The wait was always 2 hours. Our last seating was at 2AM 6 10 t7 50 797
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    Font - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Q Did anyone order the unlimited soup/salad/breadsticks and stay for 8 hours? A Why would someone do that? Q You said they were Americans. t3 175 1.1K + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 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. 44 490 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q: That's really good to know. A: People can't eat that much bread. [I started
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    Font - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Q: What's the weirdest thing that ever happened? A: Oh, there was a knife fight. Q: Tell me everything. A: Two women. They came together. 13 59 595 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Q: Steak knives? Like the knives from the table or BYOK? A: From the table. So, it started out as a fist fight and the other manger pulled 13 34 425 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 them apart and put one in the elevator going down to the 1st floor. They we
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    Font - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Stairs. She stopped the elevator on the 2nd floor and grabbed a knife off someone's table. A: someone else's knife?! Q: yes 33 474 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 Q: So only one woman had a knife. A: The other woman picked up a knife off a different table. So the other manager, he was a huge guy, 6'6" 17 26 312 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 ran down there and pulled them apart again. They were on the first floor at this point. And he
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    Rectangle - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 deal with it out there. Q: Did they still have the knives? A: No, he took them. Q: Did he give them breadsticks? A: What? No. Q: Sorry. t7 67 958 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 A: What happened after that? Q: I don't know. They were outside, so they weren't our problem anymore A: Would you say they're still "family" t7 28 585
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    Rectangle - + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington Apr 19 A: No. Q: Wait. You said the shifts where you ran out of breadsticks were the worst. Worse than the shift with a knife fight? t3 40 385 + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 A: You may be surprised, but yes, Olive Garden running out of breadsticks is worse than a knife fight. Q: No, I totally get it. 6 14 t7 415 1.4K + Joe Wadlington @JoeWadlington · Apr 19 Reader, I married him. 61 t3 88 3.4K

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