Olive Garden/Red Lobster

[ThomCat]

One of my clients is one of the largest Advertising/PR/Marketing companies in the world. They are bidding on a Darden Restaurants contract. Darden owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Smokey Bones, Seasons 52 and Bahama Breeze.

They would like me to distribute this survey to my friends so they can find out what we all think about these restaurants.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=180792505480">Darden Restaurants Survey

I hearby set you loose upon this survey. :evilgrin:

[progmom]

1. oooooooooh

that's funny! :rofl:

[deucemagnet]

2. Oh, my...

:popcorn:

[MrCoffee]

3. That was fun...anytime I can rant about Olive Garden being crap...

is a good time.

[Rhythm]

4. can't do it...

i'm a Darden wage-slave. *L*

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. That was fun.

[ThomCat]

10. It was!

But I must have missed something. I couldn't find the questions about the breast-feeding section, and the policy of spacing out the screaming kids so that there is at least one next to every other occupied table.

Damn. I think I only did half the survey. :P

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. See if you can guess my entry

[matcom]

7. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

priceless.

[noonwitch]

8. I actually like Olive Garden and Red Lobster

There are several items at OG that I like-the soup, salad and breadsticks for lunch, the seafood portofino. I know there are better italian restaurants around, and I eat at some of them, too. But Olive Garden is cheap and a good place for a work luncheon.

I like Red Lobster's food, but I think their portions are chinzy. Their cheese bread is awesome.

[GoneOffShore]

9. Oh yeah!

I hate the corporatisation of food. This will be fun!

[LSK]

11. .

- If you NEVER visit any of the restaurants listed above, how likely are you to visit the restaurant in the future?

Not at all Likely

- If you responded “unlikely” or “not at all likely” to the previous question, please tell us why:

Why should I?

[JVS]

12. You rock!

[ThomCat]

14. Thank you very much.

:7

I have to say, this is the first time I've been happy about receiving one of these surveys. :P

[Tyler Durden]

13. I said...

- If you NEVER visit any of the restaurants listed above, how likely are you to visit the restaurant in the future?

Not at all Likely

- If you responded “unlikely” or “not at all likely” to the previous question, please tell us why:

Because the Darden Corporation is a staunch supporter of the Bush Administration and the Republican Party, and I do not wish to contribute to either of these organizations through patronizing a restaurant.

[ThomCat]

15. Geez. I forgot about that.

Doh.

I told them that I don't eat at chain restaurants that don't serve vegetarian/vegan options, and that are often hostile to vegetarians/vegans. There are too many other restaurants out there that want my money.

[LaurenG]

19. Me too Thomcat

why bother trying to find food when you know it'll be lettuce or steamed veggies.

[Katina]

16. I bet since it's an online survey

they are able to pull real time results.

I told them that when I go out to eat, I would like to have food that doesn't taste like it came out of the freezer. IMO, the food at OG, no matter where you are in the country, tastes identical...like it was prepared at corporate headquarters, frozen & shipped to all the restaurants. There is no individuality to any of it..and they use WAAAYYY too much salt at all of these places.

[kwassa]

17. What is scary about that survey ....

the OTHER chain restaurants that they compare them to.

and they spread like KUDZU.

I was in Moscow about four years ago. I spotted, (in Cyrillic disguise), TGIF, Sbarro's Pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and many McDonalds. I was told there were about 60 Mickey D's in Moscow.

The mallization of the world.

As to Olive Garden, I ate there once, and the food was drowned, I mean drowned, in olive oil.

[ThomCat]

23. Olive Garden could make decent food.

Italian cuisine is very forgiving. All they would have to do is give up the packaged shit that comes from headquarters and buy some local produce. And then don't drown everything in olive oil/bland marinara sauce/italian dressing.

Use fresh ingredients and let people taste the fresh ingredients. Geez, it's not that difficult.

[Lowell]

18. Dead Lobster tried to poison me

a few years ago. I got sick right there in the dining room. The manager came over and offered me a coupon for another free meal. What an asshat, think I'm going to give them another chance to kill me they are crazy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. I like them both and frequent them both...when we have the $$

:hi:

[LostinVA]

21. Bahama Breeze is pretty good -- you know how I feel about the rest!!!!

Fake real Italian food, overpriced frozen seafood!!!!!

[Omaha Steve]

22. We won't go back until Red Lobster honors the Canadian seafood boycott

Club sandwiches, not seals!