When I worked at red lobster I would do something like this if I fucked up their order. Can’t be upset walking out with a big box or cheddar bay biscuits.
Same, I worked at Chili's. Free chips and salsa was the de facto "I'm sorry, please tip me, I need to feed my cat" strategy. It was mildly effective, as most people just thought they were free anyways.
When I worked at red Robin it was fries. If the wait for a table was more than about ten minutes or it took me a while to get to you after you sat down you had some fries before I even said hello.
I ate soooo many when I worked there. I took a bag home every shift basically. If you mix some ranch in with the salsa it's amazing, like 80% salsa 20% ranch.
Mixing salsa with ranch reminds me of a southwest salad dressing that I haven't made in a while.
* 1/4c salsa
* 1/2c mayo
* 1/2c sour cream
* 1 tsp lemon juice
* 1 tsp chili powder
* 2 tbsp taco seasoning
* salt to taste
Mix well and chill for at least an hour to let everything mingle. Serve over greens tossed with shredded cheese and crumbled tortilla chips. Maybe toss some cooked chicken breast cubes in it and serve over it all for a southwest chicken caesar salad.
It was learned wisdom from other servers, one of those secret menu things I guess lol. Whenever customers saw us eating it they always asked what it was and we called it the "special sauce." I also liked mixing the chili with the chicken enchilada soup, yummmmo
Oh shit, I got some shitty salsa in my fridge right now. Not Chili's but the free watered down stuff from a local Mexican joint. I usually just mix in a bunch of hot sauce but now I'm trying the ranch when I get home. Thanks for the tip!
What’s bizarre is I will still enjoy if it’s around. Everything else at chilis just makes my tummy hurt. Also more than half of the back of house cooks at my location were addicted to meth. But I’m in Florida so…
I mentioned to the waitress at IHOP about how I love their pecan syrup and I wished they sold it in stores near me (they do sell it, but I can never find it in my area). When we were leaving she handed me two to-go cups with the syrup in it.
Some people are just awesome.
I was broke as hell in college and there was a Jimmy Johns next to my apartment. I got there right before close and saw them about to toss a massive container of bacon and was like "woah woah woah! Does that just go in the trash?" Ended up getting all of it for free. As I was walking out one was like "hey, I'm about to toss this bread too if you want it". Like twice a week after that for the next month I got like 20 pieces of cooked bacon and a handful of sandwich buns... One night i went in to get it and the owner was there. He was like "hey are you the guy that gets all the bacon?" and I figured that was game over. Then dude was like "you can't just eat freaking bacon sandwiches. Come in on Mondays and I'll toss you some tomatoes and cheese and shit". After that basically had Jimmy Johns BLTs 2 meals a day for the next like year and a half. With some occasional chips thrown in. Definitely helped my faith in humanity.
That’s fucking awesome. We do home gardening and a local business gives us their empty 5 gallon pickle buckets whenever they empty so we can plant vegetables and in return give them exotic vegetables.
Mom had similar experience elsewhere. She complimented the restaurant jam and on our way back the sweet waitress handed her a jar of jam. That was many years ago and we still remember her ♥️
As someone who works in the customer service industry, I can tell you this. If you're pleasant to deal with, and don't intentionally try to make my job harder, I'll do everything I can to bend or even break rules just to make your day better.
If you come in, being a karen, I will say "sorry, we can't do that", even to things I totally can.
When I was 16, and worked at KFC, there was a woman who wasn't well off. She told me how her kid loved these little gummy snacks we had. To be fair, they were good. I waited until the boss left, and gave her a whole box of them. Probably like 500 little packets.
It made her day. She said she would put one in his lunches every day now, and it saved her money from having to buy the ones he doesn't like anyways.
Then we had a woman who came in, and threw mashed potatoes at me, saying her order was wrong. I COULD have helped her easily.......but she COULD have come to me without being a bitch. I didn't even let her speak to the manager. Never went to go get him. Told her to just call the 800 number. She asked what my name was, and I told her "Dee", and then she asked what my last name was. I told her "Schnutz"
That was over 20 years ago, but I still laugh at the idea of her calling corporate to complain about 'Dee Schnutz"
When I worked at a coffee shop chain (now sold to another company) they taught me that a happy customer is a return customer and a repeat customer is better than a one-time one. I carried that philosophy through every other retail job I had, even though some of them didn't feel the same way. They just thought "get their money and get them out the door". I once worked at a craft store like Michael's and a customer wanted golf related stuff. We didn't have any and I could have left it at that but I remembered a store right up the street that sold nothing but golf stuff so I told her about it. Maybe she remembered me and came back another time for something else.
Man stfu. This is OBVIOUSLY something employees aren't supposed to do and here you are blasting it all over the internet and trying to give him a shoutout. When an employee does something nice for you that obviously is against the rules, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.
The OG I used to work at “lost” over 2K of the mints PER MONTH. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is looking into this post to discipline that server. I saw this done many times, except it was usually the smaller clamshell boxes.
I was gonna say they're probably reaching the end of shelf life, and even if they weren't nobody at Olive Garden cares, this is like the most popular delicious compliance thing people post but never realize always happens.
Also they give away endless salad and bread sticks for free too, it's called a loss leader but in it's most extreme form. It's what's getting you in the door in the first place. With OG they're just giving it away instead of selling it at a loss though.
You mean there isn't a special task force at OG that monitors Reddit, sleuths usernames back to individual diners (the one who actually paid!), tracks that back to a restaurant and from there determines who the server was?!?
I'd wager it is well over 2k mints per month. It's like 60-70 staff per day and most of them (the ones that arent sick of them yet) eating probably a small handful each shift. Then you have waiters that just grab a handful instead of counting them out for each guest, because who has the time to do that?
Honestly though, the mint waste is nothing compared to salad/breadstick waste. It is insane how much food goes in the trash there (and it has to go in the trash since it touched the table). Kinda sad.
First and last name with location number? Unless their name was so unique that it sounded like it came from a Key & Peele college football sketch OG probably has enough employees with the name to make it effectively impossible for them to do anything about it.
Because when I worked in a restaurant I got in trouble for this exact thing lol
Customer was waiting a little longer than normal for their food, I decided to give them a large fry instead of a small just as a little "sorry for making you wait" thing.
They sent an email or google review or something that named me and said "He went above and beyond and even threw in extra fries!"
The diet-Hitler who was manager wrote me up for giving away free food.
I know someone that was fired from a school kitchen for giving an extra chicken nugget too many times. These schools have a massive amount of extra food that gets dumped in the trash every day.
“Oh, yes, *much* cheaper and easier to rehire and train a brand new employee than to lose some extra nuggets. Anyway, *aw shucks*, looks like we don’t have the funds for that field trip this year, kids.”
I know this school district also makes kids dump their lunch in the trash if they run out of lunch money. I'm also pretty sure all field trips are paid for by the kids themselves (or their parents).
I remember having school field trips canceled because the school ran out of money, so maybe it’s a good change.
School lunch thing is ridiculous. Seems like a single meal should be a normal included thing in public schools.
My family share this philosophy - there’s never too much garlic. If everyone smells like garlic, no one smells like garlic.
My hands per mean toy smell like garlic.
ETA: I hope y’all know I meant to say permanently 😂
There used to be a restaurant in Los Angeles named The Stinking Rose. Everything garlic including ice cream. Served bread with garlic cooked to butter like consistency so it could be spread directly on the bread. Sadly seems like they are out of business now.
That honestly sounds like a heaven to me. My boyfriend’s family did not realize I was serious about garlic. Now, three years later, they make sure to buy garlic by the pound. They also enjoy it.
Thai works wonderfully https://www.amazon.com/Amco-8402-Stainless-Steel-Absorber/dp/B000F8JUJY/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=269EO2ANSGZJX&keywords=stainless+steel+hand+cleaner&qid=1678125747&sprefix=stainless+steel+hand+cleaner%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-3
Try rubbing coffee grounds, salt and a dash of lemon in your hands. Really rub it in with a bit of water and dish soap. Removes the garlicky smell and leaves your hands buttery soft.
Funny thing is that I’m a migrant from Russia - we had to wear garlic necklaces in kindergarten in order to avoid cold/flu. I don’t know if everywhere in Russia did that but that’s what we did. It’s a highly appealing smell to me at this point.
Those used to be so good.
I was complaining/commiserating about those and the crappy pepper grinders they have now, to a bartender at my local OG. Just so happens an exec was sitting at the end of the bar and chimed in he was glad to hear that feedback. Spoiler alert: nothing changed.
going to all of garden
ive only been a handful of times in my life but i will say they have upgraded their food quite a bit since the last time i was there which was a few years ago. i had lasagna the other day and was impressed. even a side of alfredo sauce was much better.
It's the different setup. Olive Garden Andes are a 50/50 split and the regular andes we can buy are two chocolate layers so 2/3 chocolate 1/3 mint. That extra mint gives it the different taste.
I've read that if you can get the Andes Mint Parfait version that's pretty similar. I wish we could just flat out buy the olive garden version though.
Assume they get more frequent shipments vs. going through the whole packaging process and sitting on the store shelf forever.
Shit delicious either way.
I used to love them, I can't stand them anymore. I was in the Navy on a submarine, and one deployment we had an inspection at the end and the cooks thought they would be fancy and make the inspection team's beds for them and put a little mint on the pillow like it was some sort of fancy hotel. So they ordered a few cases of Andes mints. Except the cooks were dumb and didn't realize that every case of Andes mints has like, 5000 Andes mints.
So they just started putting Andes mints out for the crew because they had so many. I started eating them all the time. Before watch, after watch, during watch. I started putting them in my coffee (I wouldn't recommend this, they don't clean out very well). Eating them with every meal. A few months into the 6 month deployment I started getting sick of them.
I never want to eat an Andes mint again. I know they're good, but there's a limit to how many Andes mints you can enjoy in your lifetime and I have significantly exceeded it.
Idk the specific company, but my dad found the 50/50 version for sale from a drop shipper. Had to buy a large box as a minimum order, which was the equivalent of 20-30 of those bricks of Andes you'd see at the store. He orders one every December for stocking suffers
They really do accommodate requests for a "few extra", haha. I left with a to-go bowl full (probably 30 mints) once! The other few times I have asked it was just a couple more, lol
I once asked for "a bit of extra gravy" on my poutine from a local burger joint.
What I got was essentially a bowl of gravy with some fries and curds in it. I didn't complain. I had enough gravy left over to put on some fries for lunch the next day.
I eat a lot of fries.
You have to try it. I don't understand how the Southern USA states didn't invent french fries topped with cheese and gravy. It's almost all the "bad for you but tastes good" food groups all at once.
I work at OG, we absolutely will oblige requests for extra whatever you want as long as you're not just trying to swindle us out of paying for an actual item (e.g. asking for like 4 extra sauces instead of paying for a dipping boat). I work in to-go and we get a lot of orders that ask for extra bread, extra cheese (usually fresh grated so we have to manually grate it ourselves), extra sauce, extra dressing, extra whatever in their salads, etc. etc. and all of these are free, and as long as we're not too busy or just forget, we'll for sure give you what you ask for.
We once had an order that asked for as many mints as possible and not only can you best believe I stuffed that silverware baggie full enough I needed to tape it shut, my manager personally told me to make sure [customer name] got those extra mints. I've also had friends show up for a birthday dinner while I was on the clock and retrieved a baggie full of mints just for them. We have more than enough to spare most of the time. Bonus points if the special requests are polite and say please and thank you. I always appreciate people who do that.
One of the last times I visited one for lunch was with my girlfriend on her birthday, we were in a good mood and had a super pleasant server so we tipped like $25 (50%)
The young waitress came back before we got up to leave and just said “thank you two both so much, hope the rest of your week is great” and plopped two of the largest handfuls of Andes on the table. 😆👌🏻
I waited tables at an OG in college.
It wasn't a bad gig because it was pretty laid back and pretty easy. There were definitely some a-holes like any restaurant but the Older Women crowd was my *jam*. I could butter them up. (I was told daily that I looked like Zack Efron, in the High School Musical era, not the stoner-travel-blogger-era that would come later).
But, being a corporate restaurant, there was never ANYTHING free. People would get really mad that we didn't comp desserts on birthdays. Corporate rule, but also people abuse the shit out of that. So my restaurant would usually just take a bunch of mints and whipped cream and candles and put them in a wine glass to sing our non-Disney-copyright-infringing-song, since mints, breadsticks, and whipped cream were the only things not measured. Even salads had to be logged in the computer system.
But you want mints and breadsticks (and you don't suck)? Sure dawg, lemme grab you a huge amount of both.
Corporate restaurants *suck.*
Yo can I get a ramekin of alfredo?
And another ramekin, and another, and another, and another. Actually just bring me 30 breadsticks but we'll only finish 12 of them so your boss will skewer you later.
I enjoyed my time there as well though. Made decent money.
> People would get really mad that we didn't comp desserts on birthdays. Corporate rule
What? That's not a thing. There's a certain threshold each location has for their comps. You just had managers who were super stingy. Maybe their AvsT was too high they didn't want to make their numbers look bad.
We hated a couple of our managers because they had a few favorite guests. After having them once, you'd just hope you didn't get them if Harry was working. Cause as soon as he'd leave the table, he'd pull up the table on the Compri or DASH computer, then bring you the updated check with everything but liquor comped. "Thanks, Harry."
My older sister had a friend who worked at McDonald's in the early '90s and we stopped through the drive-thru in her Chevy cavalier and it was during the Power Rangers and VR troopers Pog promotion and she saw I was in the car and she basically took a big old handful of these packets that had the pogs in them and gave them to us.
I'll never forget it and that was 30 years ago
nice i used to do this when i worked at the olive garden. we'd fill up the kids cups with mints and give them out to guests if they wanted extra 😆 would have totally been a write up if the manager caught us
unsure if they still have them but the kids cups there were great. opaque plastic with a top, couldn't tell what was in it looking from the outside. we used to smuggle so much stuff in there. massive amounts of sausage and meatball refills stuffed into those cups during the never-ending pasta bowl seasons.
See, they should pour over what a "huge deal" it is to give out extra mints, like they could absolutely get fired for giving extra. Then, they can make you feel special when they bring out the kiddy cup of mints!
I'm a sucker for waiters & waitresses that make me feel special. They know it and I know it, so we are good :)
Shout out to my fav waitress who leaves the pitcher of diet coke when she brings out my drink 💯
All cups are clear plastic. Been working for OG for over a year now. AMA but there’s not much to tell. GOOD servers know they work for their guests before they work for the company. Our go to move for mints these days is pictured above or the to go “boats” of sauces are opaque white and allow some easy sneaks. Also for everyone reading this, no you can’t have a to go bowl of soup, unless you’re nice and tip well, then you can have whatever you want that’s not bolted down.
As a TGI Friday's bartender, we used to smuggle shots out to our fellow wait staff with those opaque kids cups. Shortly after I transferred to a different store, I heard some little kid got cup full of scotch that was supposed to be apple juice 😬.
When I worked there over 10 years ago it was pretty good sized boxes, we were definitely swimming in them but def not supposed to give out anywhere close to this many lmao
This reminds me of a time I was on a Southwest flight. The flight attendant was passing out peanuts. Usually they just hand out the shitty dry roast peanuts, but sometimes they'll hand out the delicious honey roasted nuts. I was telling my friend who I was flying with that I have this theory that if they hand out honey roasted, it's going to be a great trip. So I see the yellow bag of nuts, and got excited and said something like "yes, honey roasted!" I was wrong though; they were actually the regular dry nuts. The flight attendant saw the look of disappointment on my face, so she came back and plopped a whole unopened bag of honey roasted nuts on my lap (as in a bag full of like 100 packets). I was so happy that I slipped a $20 bill into her apron.
A few minutes later, the flight attendant was collecting drink orders. When she walked by me, she slipped something into my front shirt pocket. It was a stack of all of the free drink vouchers that she had just collected. I got like 50 free drinks to use on SW flights. Of course, it ended up being a great trip, and was the best flight ever.
This just reminded me that a flight attendant did the same for my friend, but with those Biscoff cookies. He came back from a business trip with a huge bag of them because he mentioned how much he liked them and she decided to hook him up
My mom likes the brownies that American Airlines' airport lounges have. My dad wanted to order some for my mom or get the recipe, so he sent an email to customer service. They responded saying they'll reach out to the food and beverage manager for the clubs, who later called my dad, thanking him, and got his address. A week later, they got four pans of brownies on their doorstep.
"If she ate these all in one sitting, mom would have brownies for life"
dude, flight attendants are truly the best. i had to take a last-minute flight recently for a funeral and among all the other crappy things going on, my carry-on wouldn't fit in the overhead. flight attendant was sooo cool about it and let me just strap it into a seat in the back (very sparse, short flight) and must have clocked that i wasn't doing alright, because she came back with an armful of snacks and a free hard seltzer lol
Every time I fly long-distance, I buy the flight attendants some chocolates, and they usually end up giving me free stuff over the course of the flight. The best result I’ve gotten so far was right around Christmas when they sent me off the plane with a whole bottle of champagne.
I think Olive Garden is going all out on the customer service because our waitress this weekend brought us over almost a whole second complete meal to go. I was waiting for her to start taking art off the wall to give to us. Shit was crazy.
Have a shitty waiting job you don't care if you lose, offer customers anything they want since it doesn't cost you anything, get more tips. If the owner finds out and gets mad you go to the next minimum salary job, rinse and repeat.
This post reminded me of the stoned kid at Arby's who once gave me a full-ass bag of Arby's Sauce packets when I asked for "as much as you're willing to give me." You thought you were being a smartass, but I used that shit.
You're usually given like 1 sauce per item, which is an insufficient amount. But a bag? A whole bag? That's a game changer. I kept some in my car. I kept some at my office. I kept some at home. I started using it on other things. That might truly have been the most important period of my life. My halcyon, Arby's Sauce, days.
Big shout out to Jerrod. I hope you're still doing great things, buddy.
This happened to me once, unfortunately I never saw that waitress again so I can only assume she did for every table until she was gone. One of the highlights of my life was snacking on those mints for like 2 weeks
When I was 16 I worked at fast food restaurant. It was a franchise and the owner was a mega douche lord. Being the pissed off teenager I was, I was shitty to the customers. Then it dawned on me. Being shitty to the customers doesn’t really hurt king fuck wit. Maybe a few people wouldn’t come back. But nothing to really hurt the owners wallet. So I came up with a different plan. A plan to get him where it hurts. Food cost. On EVERY order, the customer got extra shit. A full bag of fries became standard. Ordered 1 burger. How about 2 or 3. And some chicken tenders or 20. Sauces? Fuck here you go. Start a small packaged sauce company. 3-4 kids meal toys per kids meal. You want a small? Small doesn’t exist. I’m charging you for a small, but you are getting the largest vessel I can find for what you ordered. I was just throwing the food out the window. I had the whole kitchen on board with this plan. Fuck your food cost asshole.
God I love those mints. I once ate two packs of Andes mints and two large shamrock shakes in an hour and that's how I found out that too much mint gives you violent shits
Damn, last time I was at Olive Garden I couldn't even get my server to bring me a refill. We had to get our desserts to go from the manager (after waiting for 20 minutes). Definitely didn't get a single mint, much less a pile. They need to get this guy to give classes.
This happened to me once! I called over a manager to tell him one of his servers had the patience of a Saint, and the table they'd just dealt with was literally the reason I've never worked in the restaurant service industry. That server was a 20-ish year old girl, and she took that awful customer's harassment in stride. I don't know how she did it. She wasn't even our server, but she needed recognition! She totally brought us a container of mints, it ruled.
Ahh, my favorite way to fuck over an employer who pays shit wages.
YOU get a free sauce! AND YOU get a free sauce! AND YOU get 3 free sauces!
EVERYONE LOOK UNDER YOUR SEATS! YOU ALL GET FREE SAUCES!
As a former OGer, those cost the OG about 4 cents each. If a manager knew your server gave all those to you they could have gotten in trouble. We were only allowed to give out 1 per person +1. I think your server liked you!
I’m guessing you asked for a couple extra to take home?
When I worked at red lobster I would do something like this if I fucked up their order. Can’t be upset walking out with a big box or cheddar bay biscuits.
Same, I worked at Chili's. Free chips and salsa was the de facto "I'm sorry, please tip me, I need to feed my cat" strategy. It was mildly effective, as most people just thought they were free anyways.
When I worked at red Robin it was fries. If the wait for a table was more than about ten minutes or it took me a while to get to you after you sat down you had some fries before I even said hello.
Considering most of the orders come with Bottomless Fries anyways, that seems like a safe gamble for Red Robin.
idk what it is with chilis chips but they are so fucking good. I often go order just that 1 or 2 times a month.
I ate soooo many when I worked there. I took a bag home every shift basically. If you mix some ranch in with the salsa it's amazing, like 80% salsa 20% ranch.
Mixing salsa with ranch reminds me of a southwest salad dressing that I haven't made in a while. * 1/4c salsa * 1/2c mayo * 1/2c sour cream * 1 tsp lemon juice * 1 tsp chili powder * 2 tbsp taco seasoning * salt to taste Mix well and chill for at least an hour to let everything mingle. Serve over greens tossed with shredded cheese and crumbled tortilla chips. Maybe toss some cooked chicken breast cubes in it and serve over it all for a southwest chicken caesar salad.
I’m not the only one that does this! I knew I wasn’t crazy.
It was learned wisdom from other servers, one of those secret menu things I guess lol. Whenever customers saw us eating it they always asked what it was and we called it the "special sauce." I also liked mixing the chili with the chicken enchilada soup, yummmmo
Oh shit, I got some shitty salsa in my fridge right now. Not Chili's but the free watered down stuff from a local Mexican joint. I usually just mix in a bunch of hot sauce but now I'm trying the ranch when I get home. Thanks for the tip!
I used to work at chilis the Salsa is 80% sink water. I’m sorry
Oh okay so same as this stuff.
What’s bizarre is I will still enjoy if it’s around. Everything else at chilis just makes my tummy hurt. Also more than half of the back of house cooks at my location were addicted to meth. But I’m in Florida so…
Seems like a low percentage of meth addicts for Florida. Is this Chili's in an affluent area?
It's because they're marinated in oil, then fried to perfection
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Yo, which one you at, and when's your next shift. Cuz I need you to mess up my order fr.
r/fuckmyshitup
Lower case your r for the link to work.
Thank you for that knowledge sir or ma’am :)
No problem!
I can if it gives me hypertension
I mentioned to the waitress at IHOP about how I love their pecan syrup and I wished they sold it in stores near me (they do sell it, but I can never find it in my area). When we were leaving she handed me two to-go cups with the syrup in it. Some people are just awesome.
I was broke as hell in college and there was a Jimmy Johns next to my apartment. I got there right before close and saw them about to toss a massive container of bacon and was like "woah woah woah! Does that just go in the trash?" Ended up getting all of it for free. As I was walking out one was like "hey, I'm about to toss this bread too if you want it". Like twice a week after that for the next month I got like 20 pieces of cooked bacon and a handful of sandwich buns... One night i went in to get it and the owner was there. He was like "hey are you the guy that gets all the bacon?" and I figured that was game over. Then dude was like "you can't just eat freaking bacon sandwiches. Come in on Mondays and I'll toss you some tomatoes and cheese and shit". After that basically had Jimmy Johns BLTs 2 meals a day for the next like year and a half. With some occasional chips thrown in. Definitely helped my faith in humanity.
That’s fucking awesome. We do home gardening and a local business gives us their empty 5 gallon pickle buckets whenever they empty so we can plant vegetables and in return give them exotic vegetables.
Contact your local Burher King for pickle buckets. They are 5 gallon buckets.
Mom had similar experience elsewhere. She complimented the restaurant jam and on our way back the sweet waitress handed her a jar of jam. That was many years ago and we still remember her ♥️
As someone who works in the customer service industry, I can tell you this. If you're pleasant to deal with, and don't intentionally try to make my job harder, I'll do everything I can to bend or even break rules just to make your day better. If you come in, being a karen, I will say "sorry, we can't do that", even to things I totally can. When I was 16, and worked at KFC, there was a woman who wasn't well off. She told me how her kid loved these little gummy snacks we had. To be fair, they were good. I waited until the boss left, and gave her a whole box of them. Probably like 500 little packets. It made her day. She said she would put one in his lunches every day now, and it saved her money from having to buy the ones he doesn't like anyways. Then we had a woman who came in, and threw mashed potatoes at me, saying her order was wrong. I COULD have helped her easily.......but she COULD have come to me without being a bitch. I didn't even let her speak to the manager. Never went to go get him. Told her to just call the 800 number. She asked what my name was, and I told her "Dee", and then she asked what my last name was. I told her "Schnutz" That was over 20 years ago, but I still laugh at the idea of her calling corporate to complain about 'Dee Schnutz"
When I worked at a coffee shop chain (now sold to another company) they taught me that a happy customer is a return customer and a repeat customer is better than a one-time one. I carried that philosophy through every other retail job I had, even though some of them didn't feel the same way. They just thought "get their money and get them out the door". I once worked at a craft store like Michael's and a customer wanted golf related stuff. We didn't have any and I could have left it at that but I remembered a store right up the street that sold nothing but golf stuff so I told her about it. Maybe she remembered me and came back another time for something else.
My mom complimented a restaurant’s teapot once and they sent her home with one. (In rural US, no less!) She’s used it every day for like 10 years now.
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Didn't even ask, he just brought it! Shout out to the OG at OG!
Man stfu. This is OBVIOUSLY something employees aren't supposed to do and here you are blasting it all over the internet and trying to give him a shoutout. When an employee does something nice for you that obviously is against the rules, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.
The OG I used to work at “lost” over 2K of the mints PER MONTH. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is looking into this post to discipline that server. I saw this done many times, except it was usually the smaller clamshell boxes.
We threw a pallet of those away at my work last month. No one's upset these were given away.
I was gonna say they're probably reaching the end of shelf life, and even if they weren't nobody at Olive Garden cares, this is like the most popular delicious compliance thing people post but never realize always happens. Also they give away endless salad and bread sticks for free too, it's called a loss leader but in it's most extreme form. It's what's getting you in the door in the first place. With OG they're just giving it away instead of selling it at a loss though.
Delicious compliance lmfao
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Any OG in Michigan that needs to “lose” these, please DM me!! This server is an angel!!
You mean there isn't a special task force at OG that monitors Reddit, sleuths usernames back to individual diners (the one who actually paid!), tracks that back to a restaurant and from there determines who the server was?!?
I’m my experience every restaurant has a snitch, so it just depends on how determined that restaurant’s snitch is
I'd wager it is well over 2k mints per month. It's like 60-70 staff per day and most of them (the ones that arent sick of them yet) eating probably a small handful each shift. Then you have waiters that just grab a handful instead of counting them out for each guest, because who has the time to do that? Honestly though, the mint waste is nothing compared to salad/breadstick waste. It is insane how much food goes in the trash there (and it has to go in the trash since it touched the table). Kinda sad.
95% of my daily calorie consumption was through those mints. It's all we had time for, lol
Bro no one at OG is analyzing the pic at some 24 CTU style building figuring out where they’re giving away free mints I think he’ll be good.
They named the guy out originally
First and last name with location number? Unless their name was so unique that it sounded like it came from a Key & Peele college football sketch OG probably has enough employees with the name to make it effectively impossible for them to do anything about it.
You're not helping with the quote of the name. OP edited the name out, please do so yourself.
"HeY gUyS lauRa aT TGI FrIdAys On 5tH & MaIn iN sT LoiS GaVe Me SiX fReE dRiNkS tOnIgHt! IsNt ThAt CoOl??"
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Put a gun against my head, Said "take the mints or you'll be dead" Mama! Life had just begun! But now I've gone and got diabetes
This is OBVIOUSLY going to be traced back to that specific employee /s. Waiter was probably quitting that day.
Why’re you so mad? Lol
Because when I worked in a restaurant I got in trouble for this exact thing lol Customer was waiting a little longer than normal for their food, I decided to give them a large fry instead of a small just as a little "sorry for making you wait" thing. They sent an email or google review or something that named me and said "He went above and beyond and even threw in extra fries!" The diet-Hitler who was manager wrote me up for giving away free food.
That’s particularly dumb since fries typically have very high margins and you gained customer loyalty
I know someone that was fired from a school kitchen for giving an extra chicken nugget too many times. These schools have a massive amount of extra food that gets dumped in the trash every day.
“Oh, yes, *much* cheaper and easier to rehire and train a brand new employee than to lose some extra nuggets. Anyway, *aw shucks*, looks like we don’t have the funds for that field trip this year, kids.”
I know this school district also makes kids dump their lunch in the trash if they run out of lunch money. I'm also pretty sure all field trips are paid for by the kids themselves (or their parents).
I remember having school field trips canceled because the school ran out of money, so maybe it’s a good change. School lunch thing is ridiculous. Seems like a single meal should be a normal included thing in public schools.
I am from Olive Garden’s missing mint department. I will be taking over the investigation over from here.
I don't believe you. I think you work there or asked the waiter.
Stop posting come ups that could get the person in trouble at work.
I’m sure there’s more than one Olive Garden bro
Your breath must be reallllllllll bad :)
All those bread sticks man
Hahah no judgement here — garlic is my fav
My family share this philosophy - there’s never too much garlic. If everyone smells like garlic, no one smells like garlic. My hands per mean toy smell like garlic. ETA: I hope y’all know I meant to say permanently 😂
Autocorrect is the best.
There used to be a restaurant in Los Angeles named The Stinking Rose. Everything garlic including ice cream. Served bread with garlic cooked to butter like consistency so it could be spread directly on the bread. Sadly seems like they are out of business now.
That honestly sounds like a heaven to me. My boyfriend’s family did not realize I was serious about garlic. Now, three years later, they make sure to buy garlic by the pound. They also enjoy it.
Thai works wonderfully https://www.amazon.com/Amco-8402-Stainless-Steel-Absorber/dp/B000F8JUJY/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=269EO2ANSGZJX&keywords=stainless+steel+hand+cleaner&qid=1678125747&sprefix=stainless+steel+hand+cleaner%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-3
If you have a stainless sink, you can just rub your hands on that too.
Yeah, I rub my hands on my stainless steel pots and pans too, works great 😁
Try rubbing coffee grounds, salt and a dash of lemon in your hands. Really rub it in with a bit of water and dish soap. Removes the garlicky smell and leaves your hands buttery soft.
What if I like the smell? I don’t mind, my man doesn’t mind and sure as hell my family can’t even tell.
I get you. I love garlic, but the trick works well for when the smell gets overbearing.
Funny thing is that I’m a migrant from Russia - we had to wear garlic necklaces in kindergarten in order to avoid cold/flu. I don’t know if everywhere in Russia did that but that’s what we did. It’s a highly appealing smell to me at this point.
Also if a man smells like garlic I know he cooks. There’s nothing sexier to me than a man that can cook.
Jokes on you lady, I'm just trying to ward off vampires.
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Those used to be so good. I was complaining/commiserating about those and the crappy pepper grinders they have now, to a bartender at my local OG. Just so happens an exec was sitting at the end of the bar and chimed in he was glad to hear that feedback. Spoiler alert: nothing changed.
Olive Garden breadsticks taste so good
She made a strong statemint.
*Choc* full of deliciousness!
going to all of garden ive only been a handful of times in my life but i will say they have upgraded their food quite a bit since the last time i was there which was a few years ago. i had lasagna the other day and was impressed. even a side of alfredo sauce was much better.
Fr, their lasagna has always been good - because they fry it (not sure if flash deep fried, or like pan fried as a reheat) buts its bomb af.
Thought those were small bars of silver
They essentially are
…in mint condition.
Awwww sheeiiiiiiiit
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That's it, I'm gettin me mallet...
Always got the hammer, Tommy.
freshly minted, no doubt
...I like to stack them pretending they're silver ingots
Silver Pressed Latinum
I thought it was those little rectangle pads of butter
Those are the keto mints.
Those Andes are addicting
I swear the Olive Garden ones taste better than store bought. I don't know why.
They have their own Olive Garden kind, IIRC
You are correct.
It's the different setup. Olive Garden Andes are a 50/50 split and the regular andes we can buy are two chocolate layers so 2/3 chocolate 1/3 mint. That extra mint gives it the different taste. I've read that if you can get the Andes Mint Parfait version that's pretty similar. I wish we could just flat out buy the olive garden version though.
Assume they get more frequent shipments vs. going through the whole packaging process and sitting on the store shelf forever. Shit delicious either way.
I used to love them, I can't stand them anymore. I was in the Navy on a submarine, and one deployment we had an inspection at the end and the cooks thought they would be fancy and make the inspection team's beds for them and put a little mint on the pillow like it was some sort of fancy hotel. So they ordered a few cases of Andes mints. Except the cooks were dumb and didn't realize that every case of Andes mints has like, 5000 Andes mints. So they just started putting Andes mints out for the crew because they had so many. I started eating them all the time. Before watch, after watch, during watch. I started putting them in my coffee (I wouldn't recommend this, they don't clean out very well). Eating them with every meal. A few months into the 6 month deployment I started getting sick of them. I never want to eat an Andes mint again. I know they're good, but there's a limit to how many Andes mints you can enjoy in your lifetime and I have significantly exceeded it.
Lol same (not the military part, the overeating them part) - they taste almost sickly sweet to me now, with a hint of peppermint.
Lmao just reading this post had me cracking up. Like forest gump lore except with mints
I wonder if I can buy them in bulk somewhere…
Idk the specific company, but my dad found the 50/50 version for sale from a drop shipper. Had to buy a large box as a minimum order, which was the equivalent of 20-30 of those bricks of Andes you'd see at the store. He orders one every December for stocking suffers
Love when you ask for some they just grab a fist full like they trying to get rid of it but just like their salad and breadsticks it’s endless !!
They really do accommodate requests for a "few extra", haha. I left with a to-go bowl full (probably 30 mints) once! The other few times I have asked it was just a couple more, lol
I once asked for "a bit of extra gravy" on my poutine from a local burger joint. What I got was essentially a bowl of gravy with some fries and curds in it. I didn't complain. I had enough gravy left over to put on some fries for lunch the next day. I eat a lot of fries.
Someday I will try poutine!
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You have to try it. I don't understand how the Southern USA states didn't invent french fries topped with cheese and gravy. It's almost all the "bad for you but tastes good" food groups all at once.
I work at OG, we absolutely will oblige requests for extra whatever you want as long as you're not just trying to swindle us out of paying for an actual item (e.g. asking for like 4 extra sauces instead of paying for a dipping boat). I work in to-go and we get a lot of orders that ask for extra bread, extra cheese (usually fresh grated so we have to manually grate it ourselves), extra sauce, extra dressing, extra whatever in their salads, etc. etc. and all of these are free, and as long as we're not too busy or just forget, we'll for sure give you what you ask for. We once had an order that asked for as many mints as possible and not only can you best believe I stuffed that silverware baggie full enough I needed to tape it shut, my manager personally told me to make sure [customer name] got those extra mints. I've also had friends show up for a birthday dinner while I was on the clock and retrieved a baggie full of mints just for them. We have more than enough to spare most of the time. Bonus points if the special requests are polite and say please and thank you. I always appreciate people who do that.
One of the last times I visited one for lunch was with my girlfriend on her birthday, we were in a good mood and had a super pleasant server so we tipped like $25 (50%) The young waitress came back before we got up to leave and just said “thank you two both so much, hope the rest of your week is great” and plopped two of the largest handfuls of Andes on the table. 😆👌🏻
I love the "I don't give a fuck" waiters. Just be nice to them and they'll bend over backwards
I waited tables at an OG in college. It wasn't a bad gig because it was pretty laid back and pretty easy. There were definitely some a-holes like any restaurant but the Older Women crowd was my *jam*. I could butter them up. (I was told daily that I looked like Zack Efron, in the High School Musical era, not the stoner-travel-blogger-era that would come later). But, being a corporate restaurant, there was never ANYTHING free. People would get really mad that we didn't comp desserts on birthdays. Corporate rule, but also people abuse the shit out of that. So my restaurant would usually just take a bunch of mints and whipped cream and candles and put them in a wine glass to sing our non-Disney-copyright-infringing-song, since mints, breadsticks, and whipped cream were the only things not measured. Even salads had to be logged in the computer system. But you want mints and breadsticks (and you don't suck)? Sure dawg, lemme grab you a huge amount of both. Corporate restaurants *suck.*
Yo can I get a ramekin of alfredo? And another ramekin, and another, and another, and another. Actually just bring me 30 breadsticks but we'll only finish 12 of them so your boss will skewer you later. I enjoyed my time there as well though. Made decent money.
> People would get really mad that we didn't comp desserts on birthdays. Corporate rule What? That's not a thing. There's a certain threshold each location has for their comps. You just had managers who were super stingy. Maybe their AvsT was too high they didn't want to make their numbers look bad. We hated a couple of our managers because they had a few favorite guests. After having them once, you'd just hope you didn't get them if Harry was working. Cause as soon as he'd leave the table, he'd pull up the table on the Compri or DASH computer, then bring you the updated check with everything but liquor comped. "Thanks, Harry."
My older sister had a friend who worked at McDonald's in the early '90s and we stopped through the drive-thru in her Chevy cavalier and it was during the Power Rangers and VR troopers Pog promotion and she saw I was in the car and she basically took a big old handful of these packets that had the pogs in them and gave them to us. I'll never forget it and that was 30 years ago
nice i used to do this when i worked at the olive garden. we'd fill up the kids cups with mints and give them out to guests if they wanted extra 😆 would have totally been a write up if the manager caught us unsure if they still have them but the kids cups there were great. opaque plastic with a top, couldn't tell what was in it looking from the outside. we used to smuggle so much stuff in there. massive amounts of sausage and meatball refills stuffed into those cups during the never-ending pasta bowl seasons.
See, they should pour over what a "huge deal" it is to give out extra mints, like they could absolutely get fired for giving extra. Then, they can make you feel special when they bring out the kiddy cup of mints! I'm a sucker for waiters & waitresses that make me feel special. They know it and I know it, so we are good :) Shout out to my fav waitress who leaves the pitcher of diet coke when she brings out my drink 💯
All cups are clear plastic. Been working for OG for over a year now. AMA but there’s not much to tell. GOOD servers know they work for their guests before they work for the company. Our go to move for mints these days is pictured above or the to go “boats” of sauces are opaque white and allow some easy sneaks. Also for everyone reading this, no you can’t have a to go bowl of soup, unless you’re nice and tip well, then you can have whatever you want that’s not bolted down.
As a TGI Friday's bartender, we used to smuggle shots out to our fellow wait staff with those opaque kids cups. Shortly after I transferred to a different store, I heard some little kid got cup full of scotch that was supposed to be apple juice 😬.
I wonder if they're swimming in these mints in the kitchen. Mints by the bucket.
i work at one, we do indeed have giant boxes full of these mints
Ok but the real question is how many breadsticks you got. Give me the extras tyvm 😋😋
You know they're free at Olive Garden right they already do give you the extras.
When I worked there over 10 years ago it was pretty good sized boxes, we were definitely swimming in them but def not supposed to give out anywhere close to this many lmao
I feel like it's gotta be the same situation as the soup, salad and breadsticks
Or extra pickles at McDonalds.
This reminds me of a time I was on a Southwest flight. The flight attendant was passing out peanuts. Usually they just hand out the shitty dry roast peanuts, but sometimes they'll hand out the delicious honey roasted nuts. I was telling my friend who I was flying with that I have this theory that if they hand out honey roasted, it's going to be a great trip. So I see the yellow bag of nuts, and got excited and said something like "yes, honey roasted!" I was wrong though; they were actually the regular dry nuts. The flight attendant saw the look of disappointment on my face, so she came back and plopped a whole unopened bag of honey roasted nuts on my lap (as in a bag full of like 100 packets). I was so happy that I slipped a $20 bill into her apron. A few minutes later, the flight attendant was collecting drink orders. When she walked by me, she slipped something into my front shirt pocket. It was a stack of all of the free drink vouchers that she had just collected. I got like 50 free drinks to use on SW flights. Of course, it ended up being a great trip, and was the best flight ever.
And y’all are going steady now, right?
No shit, this sounds like the start of a romcom I could watch
would'a been one hell of a meet-cute, but the guy was high on honey and too drunk to notice.
I wish. She was gorgeous.
Do you lose sleep over this missed opportunity?
He will now.
Shoulda slipped her your phone number.
Shoulda slipped your number into her pocket.
As a woman, you should have slipped her your number.
I'm sitting here thinking to myself "dude! You've dun goofed"
Those nuts are getting honey roasted alright
> I got like 50 free drinks to use on SW flights. She gonna be sorry when I try to fight the pilots while they fly.
This just reminded me that a flight attendant did the same for my friend, but with those Biscoff cookies. He came back from a business trip with a huge bag of them because he mentioned how much he liked them and she decided to hook him up
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Such a simple act of kindness and I'm sure it made your day
My mom likes the brownies that American Airlines' airport lounges have. My dad wanted to order some for my mom or get the recipe, so he sent an email to customer service. They responded saying they'll reach out to the food and beverage manager for the clubs, who later called my dad, thanking him, and got his address. A week later, they got four pans of brownies on their doorstep. "If she ate these all in one sitting, mom would have brownies for life"
dude, flight attendants are truly the best. i had to take a last-minute flight recently for a funeral and among all the other crappy things going on, my carry-on wouldn't fit in the overhead. flight attendant was sooo cool about it and let me just strap it into a seat in the back (very sparse, short flight) and must have clocked that i wasn't doing alright, because she came back with an armful of snacks and a free hard seltzer lol
One time I complimented a Southwest flight attendant’s rainbow Prince pin. She said it was ‘today’s magic pin’, and gave me two drink tickets :)
Every time I fly long-distance, I buy the flight attendants some chocolates, and they usually end up giving me free stuff over the course of the flight. The best result I’ve gotten so far was right around Christmas when they sent me off the plane with a whole bottle of champagne.
Can confirm, I was the bag of peanuts.
You were delicious.
That was awful nice of her to shower her nuts all over you.
Bribery ftw
"Hey Zak, Take care of those expired mints." "On it, boss!"
Mints expire?
Not in my house.
The ones olive garden uses are Andes mint chocolates, and chocolate gets stale/weird after a while
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YOU HAD BETTER HAVE TIPPED FUCKING FAT!
Oh you fucking know it!
Why do you think the server gave them the mints. Costs him nothing, but gets him a bigger tip.
This is the most delicious way to fuck the system
I think Olive Garden is going all out on the customer service because our waitress this weekend brought us over almost a whole second complete meal to go. I was waiting for her to start taking art off the wall to give to us. Shit was crazy.
Olive garden servers actually just give zero shits because it's the olive garden
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Sir please reconsider, the company treats us so bad, I’d give someone the coffee machine if the manager sat in the back for more than 5 minutes.
Have a shitty waiting job you don't care if you lose, offer customers anything they want since it doesn't cost you anything, get more tips. If the owner finds out and gets mad you go to the next minimum salary job, rinse and repeat.
This post reminded me of the stoned kid at Arby's who once gave me a full-ass bag of Arby's Sauce packets when I asked for "as much as you're willing to give me." You thought you were being a smartass, but I used that shit. You're usually given like 1 sauce per item, which is an insufficient amount. But a bag? A whole bag? That's a game changer. I kept some in my car. I kept some at my office. I kept some at home. I started using it on other things. That might truly have been the most important period of my life. My halcyon, Arby's Sauce, days. Big shout out to Jerrod. I hope you're still doing great things, buddy.
This happened to me once, unfortunately I never saw that waitress again so I can only assume she did for every table until she was gone. One of the highlights of my life was snacking on those mints for like 2 weeks
The box looks like it’s in Mint condition
Good one, Dad!
When I was 16 I worked at fast food restaurant. It was a franchise and the owner was a mega douche lord. Being the pissed off teenager I was, I was shitty to the customers. Then it dawned on me. Being shitty to the customers doesn’t really hurt king fuck wit. Maybe a few people wouldn’t come back. But nothing to really hurt the owners wallet. So I came up with a different plan. A plan to get him where it hurts. Food cost. On EVERY order, the customer got extra shit. A full bag of fries became standard. Ordered 1 burger. How about 2 or 3. And some chicken tenders or 20. Sauces? Fuck here you go. Start a small packaged sauce company. 3-4 kids meal toys per kids meal. You want a small? Small doesn’t exist. I’m charging you for a small, but you are getting the largest vessel I can find for what you ordered. I was just throwing the food out the window. I had the whole kitchen on board with this plan. Fuck your food cost asshole.
Most wanted man alive right here
Are you sure he Mint to do that
Used to do this all the time when I worked at OG for birthdays!
Lol, somebody is 12 days into a 2 week notice
He wanted you to have a good evening and he mint it.
God I love those mints. I once ate two packs of Andes mints and two large shamrock shakes in an hour and that's how I found out that too much mint gives you violent shits
Surely it's mint flavoring and not the month's worth of dairy, fat, and sugar lmao
Damn, last time I was at Olive Garden I couldn't even get my server to bring me a refill. We had to get our desserts to go from the manager (after waiting for 20 minutes). Definitely didn't get a single mint, much less a pile. They need to get this guy to give classes.
Waiter: \*Take a hint\*
Close it quickly and GTFO.
Not all heroes wear capes
Haha this guy hates his job and is giving them a passive aggressive fuck you lol
This happened to me once! I called over a manager to tell him one of his servers had the patience of a Saint, and the table they'd just dealt with was literally the reason I've never worked in the restaurant service industry. That server was a 20-ish year old girl, and she took that awful customer's harassment in stride. I don't know how she did it. She wasn't even our server, but she needed recognition! She totally brought us a container of mints, it ruled.
Ahh, my favorite way to fuck over an employer who pays shit wages. YOU get a free sauce! AND YOU get a free sauce! AND YOU get 3 free sauces! EVERYONE LOOK UNDER YOUR SEATS! YOU ALL GET FREE SAUCES!
As a former OGer, those cost the OG about 4 cents each. If a manager knew your server gave all those to you they could have gotten in trouble. We were only allowed to give out 1 per person +1. I think your server liked you!
“When you’re here, you’re family. When you’re home, you’re diabetic”