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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All these places are just fancy fast food. Half of the menu I'd frozen to fat fryer. But hey if your having fun, that's what counts.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe 20+ years ago. I view current Applebee's as just plain shit and Olive Garden as a faux fancy restaurant that probably has a giant bank of microwaves in the kitchen to prepare your prepackaged frozen meals.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Olive Garden serves nothing but microwavable meals you can get at the grocery store.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is totally false. Olive garden makes their food on-site as any restaurant does. I worked there for a while

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is myopic bullshit. Olive Garden, like all of its competitors, is a chain with a corporate hub handling all logistics. There is no "scratch cooking" at any Olive Garden. As much of the ingredients as possible are frozen for transport and specifically engineered to be efficiently prepared at each "kitchen".

source: decades in culinary across multiple continents, toured Olive Garden and dozens of others both above and below (not much) over the years.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I never said scratch. They definitely do not microwave their food.

They cook to portioned specs just like the vast majority of restaurants. No one goes to OG thinking it's Michelin-starred.

[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

How is it myopic, though?