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

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mattstaff
Mar 13, 2021 2:00 PM EST

As surprising as it might be for some folks to hear, there are wildly entitled human beings in this world that are ready to go full berserker mode over a restaurant like Olive Garden running out of breadsticks. There's something about the whole "unlimited/bottomless" promos that can end up bringing out people's most irrational and plain old rude sides. This ex general manager from Olive Garden certainly saw his fair share of low points for humanity. 

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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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