Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

My wife and I decided to walk from our hotel room and have a late evening appetizer and drink. We went into the bar area and stood for 10 minutes without anyone acknowledging us. Finally I asked a waiter to clean off a table so we could be seated (there was only one available). His response was far from customer friendly. He said they were working to clean the tables and would get to it as they can. He stood and chatted with some locals, took away a few glasses for some customers and walked past me 3 times.) He finally wiped the table down and told me «it’s clean». The seats had crumbs all over them and the floor was filthy. When I said what about the seats he seemed frustrated I didn’t just sit in the crumbs and bent over to wipe them down. I could only imagine if I’d asked him to clean the floor I the booth. At that time I told him don’t worry about it and left. I was disgusted at the poor customer service and his nasty attitude. I was not rude to him, he just didn’t want to be bothered. His loss, I typically tip around 30%. I’m not from that area and really expected some good old southern hospitality. The Chili’s in Tupelo sucks!!!

Our dining experience was divine. Our server (Jill) was so very sweet and very attentive and had a great sense of humor (which is hard to find, to be quite honest) Our food arrived promptly, and exceeded my expectations. The atmosphere was elegant and I have no complaints whatsoever.

We have been driving home from the beach for 8 hrs and needed a place to eat that was kid friendly — this was perfect! They were quick to seat us, take our order, and get food out so we could get back on the road. Friendly staff, food came out as we ordered, And best part was the stickers and color sheets they gave the boys. It was a great experience.

Strengths:
Convenient location off N Gloster. Clean. Friendly staff.
Opportunities:
Being a franchise, real wow power. You know what you are expecting. Breadsticks hard. Had to request fresh ones.
Summary:
Not the best Olive Garden but suits it’s purpose.

Friendly staff, wonderful servers, great food. I have been going for a few years and they are always consistent in their food. Prices are good compared to what you get.

Went to check out the local Olive Garden in our new town. I was so pleasantly surprised by our fantastic experience! Our server (Mikela) was very knowledgeable about any menu item we had a question about and she didn’t know the answer she went and found the answer and came right back. The food was delicious (special shout to the stuffed mushrooms!!), portion sizes were perfect, I just don’t know what else I can say. Loved loved loved our experience! We will definitely be back! And asking to be seated in Mikela’s section!!!

I haven’t been to this location in quite some time, but yesterday my family and I decided to go. There was a bit of a wait, it is spring break mind you, but we were promptly seated and our waitress was very attentive and friendly.
Our food was delivered in a timely manner and nice and warm, the raspberry lemonade was on point as always! The bathrooms and establishment were clean and well lit. I will definitely return.

We visited just after lunch hour. Parking lot was far from empty but still spacious, everything clean and shining, was greeted, sat immediately, and began to wait for our waiter. When he finished his other tables he found his way to us and got our drinks and order of unlimited soup salad and bread sticks, and we were soon eating. Our waiter was not the friendliest individual, almost like he didn’t want to be there but he was quick and responsive regardless. We received our check and for the first time in a while we gave a tip, he was not perfect but he didn’t leave us hanging and that commendable after the lunch rush. Will be back!

I left before eating due to smell and serious questions about cleanliness. I won’t return!

Thus far this has been the best Olive Garden I’ve been to. If you like Olive Garden, you’ll probably like this place.
The waitstaff is, for the most part, really friendly and attentive. On the rare occasion we’ve had an issue– usually with overcooked steak or pasta– it’s been resolved quickly and the manager came by to make sure everything was OK, which I appreciated.
If you’re going, go for dinner. The lunch service at this particular location is a little slower than you’d expect, since they don’t do much lunch time business.

I give this a five star rating not for the food but for the awesome service we received from Scott!!! The salad, breadsticks with dipping sauce and dessert was a 4. The chicken scampi was a 1… But that was taken care of by Scott. will go back for salad, bread, dessert and service from scott. thanks Scott for being such a great waiter to me and my boyfriend :)

walkable to hotel and super service and food.
shout out to Adam running the bar… you made it look easy!
I travel every weekand avoid chains… uh…im rethinking that now…

The problems we did have with Olive Garden were fixed promptly. The service here seems to always have a back up plan. Thank you Olive Garden for accessing our needs and accepting critic is the right way,

Yo whatup Chris, good looking out on that soup salad combo shit was dank. Sam too, what’s good dude, keep it hard none of that soft shit. Sam was a good waiter, knew his stuff. This Olive Garden was tight. No women celebrating anything near our table, no babies, none of that. Might hit up a barcade tonight in Fayetville, drove all night, might as well. Got to have fun somehow. Anyway, this place is probably one of the spots I’d make my spot if I lived in Mississippi you feel me? Chris your email didn’t work, first because I did «.con» and then I corrected that and it still didn’t work what’s the deal with that. Let’s keep in touch. Kept the Olive Garden clean that’s a good look, stay up.

Worst Olive Garden we have ever been to.
Appetizer: sampler was burnt and calamari was room temp
Salad had old lettuce with brown spots on it. Yuk!
Finally to our entrees: five cheese ziti was missing most of its sauce and the noodles were crusty.
Chicken pram was burnt and tasted like it had been fried in. 20 year old burnt oil.
The on to our service. CJ was our server, he was very nice, but had no clue what he was doing. Forgot almost everything we asked for and brought our refill of our salad after we were finished with our entrees.
We left there thinking we could have had better service and food at Waffle House down the road.

Been to this OG many times over the past 8 or so years. Birthdays, graduations, date nights, etc. When I come here I expect good food and service, for 85% of the time, I am not disappointed.
Talk about teamwork, last time about two months ago we ended up being seated in the «Family Room» one early evening before the dinner crowd came. Due to miscommunication with front-​end staff, there was no waiter for that room. One of the resident bartenders pitched in and came and served us like nothing happened. We were not asked to move or anything. He was very good.
About two years ago service and food was not the best of normal. Now, however, things seem to be back to where they used to be when I first started eating there, so that is why I put the 85% overall.

Normal Olive Garden food! But the great service put this Olive Garden in the 5 category. The Chicken and Meatball soup x two bowls was great along with the Paleo Mixed Grill. Steak was cooked as requested. When in Tupelo visit Elvis’s birth place and then the Olive Garden

We had really awesome service here, which I really appreciate, but man was my dish was super bland — don’t order the seafood alfredo. I like the Olive Garden, but this was tasteless!

For a chain restaurant this place is good for lunch. All you can eat soup and salad. My mom really enjoys coming here and I was willing and eager because they have wine. After shopping we came for a late lunch, soup and salad it was.
The salad is consistently good, fresh with their awesome homemade dressing. We ate two bowls. And the breadsticks, holy cow I could eat twenty of them. We both ordered different soups and they were OK. My soup forgot the name had spinach and chicken in it. The broth was a bit to creamy and heavy but the taste was good.
Four glasses of wine later and good service it was a very reasonably priced good lunch.