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I have just sourced out this article a bit, I invite any one willing to help out to join in the fun and expand the article some more. With proper citations from reliable sources, of course. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 02:35, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Allegedly

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/15/what-actually-goes-on-at-olive-gardens-culinary-institute-in-tuscany/

http://gawker.com/#!5793849/olive-gardens-culinary-institute-is-a-sham Pär Larsson (talk) 15:58, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia doesn't do "allegedly". Either it is, so it's included, or it isn't, so it isn't. In these cites I see allegations that they don't exactly have a "school" as possibly pictured in their adverts, but nothing about the development of their menus, which is what is discussed in the article. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 16:54, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Escape_Orbit, why isn't the Time article and Reddit post referenced at all? The Time article says, "there's no school, per se" and later, "there's no school." This is, at minimum, a controversy which directly contradicts the company's advertising, and could (I think, should) be noted as such. The controversy is also covered here: http://theweek.com/article/index/214459/petty-controversy-olive-gardens-outrageous-cooking-school-sham. I would add these myself but haven't added links before to wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.207.34.229 (talk) 22:37, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Shellnutt, Kate. "Olive Garden trying to get diners back after sales drop." Houston Chronicle. January 23, 2012.

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Extremely long term vandalism from IP editor

On 3 September 2013 this edit by IP editor 50.148.65.242 added the information that the owner of Olive Garden is Samantha Lee. This is 100% false and blatant vandalism. Now google auto completes "Samantha Lee Olive Garden owner" because of the misinformation, not sure how to rectify this vandalism. Valoem ^talk ^contrib 00:31, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Allegations of being inauthentic

I'm struggling to find articles, but should we mention the common perception that Olive Garden is often not liked by many for being seeing as imitation fake manufactured Italian food, not real Italian food. Ususer445 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:45, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It would need a WP:RS before it could be added, especially since that is largely a matter of opinion. --Cerebral726 (talk) 15:53, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What's wrong with cooking pasta in salted water?

I'm confused by this comment "The chain also had stopped the common practice of adding salt to the water in which it cooked its pasta". Pasta should be cooked in salted water, what's the problem with that? Unless the water they used was super salty? Gymnophoria (talk) 13:40, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think the issue is that they *stopped* putting salt on pasta to make the pots last longer / for warranty purposes. The fact that salt can damage pots is a major TIL for me, but maybe that's something that only happens when you're cooking at the scale that these guys are or the warranty clause was some made up bullshit that instead of negotiating out of, Olive Garden management simply caved to. 167.88.84.136 (talk) 15:37, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

History Section

It looks like the History section needs a rework... paragraphs don't follow any chronological order and some of them make references to statements made by insiders or the press without mentioning a date. 167.88.84.136 (talk) 15:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]