Olive Garden Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in Eatontown

I bought my daughter to Olive Garden bc she loves when her big sister takes her. I do not care for eating out I cook. So we arrive and first I am upset bc I feel like we were placed all the way in the back like two slaves. Then the disappointment to find out that they only give a military discount for veteran’s day so that serves me and my daughter no good as to we only eat out once and a blue moon. I gave the waitress in the end like $30 tip on top of a $50 bill.. I mean I guess that is nice that they do that on Veterans Day but since I don’t really dine out maybe they should send veterans a coupon to use that maybe is good for a year or something that way as many veterans are included. I feel as establishments as much as they peer pressure you for tips should really go above and beyond to a degree! My waitress however was exceptional and if it wasn’t for her. I would not have spent a dollar! Good service sometimes saves a customer .. I believe Karen should get a raise Great people skills.. caring. Considerate.. smile good spirit. Just great service I give her 100 stars it’s refreshing to be in the presence of someone that has great work ethics’s! If I had more I would have given her no lie $100 tip! Maybe next time I can bless her the way she blessed me and my daughter to show my daughter how one works under pressure and still accommodates her guest. I can go on and on about her service! She wasn’t lounging around like some staff Everytime I seen her she had a smile on her face and the pad and pen in the other and the food was great and fast! Definitely better than Applebee’s bland cold food. I also get no coupons or specials from here and I swore I was on the list or maybe they don’t do many discounts or promotions than...

This place is the absolute best, it's my favorite restaurant, asides from Amy's Omelette, but that's a brunch place and maybe a diner, but Olive Garden is my go-to spot for dinner. It brings me back so much nostalgia, from the greasy bread sticks, to the food itself. It's funny, since this is an Italian restaurant, you'd think I would order something like lasagna, or spaghetti (That's just basic food when an American thinks of Italian food, but it's all I could think of.), but no, I instead still order the same macaroni and cheese with grapes, it's good, that's why. A huge part of my childhood from this place is the games, like the tablet you use to pay has games, recently when we went to Olive Garden this summer, I found a car racing game which made me obsessed with car games, I still have a car app from July. Anyways, the food is super good, the Waiters are always super nice and patient even recommending some tasty meals when we aren't sure what to order. I love how it looks I've sat at almost every table in this restaurant, it definitely feels like an Italian restaurant from as far as I know what a real one looks like. I love the calm lighting I kind of hate the booths, but I hate all booth seatings. The best part of all is when they give you the mint chocolate snack one you leave, it tastes SOO good but they forgot to give it to us last time. :( It's okay, we didn't ask, that's probably why. Anyways, I love this place so much and it is an awesome place for dates with colleagues, family friends, a random stranger, etc. K 100% recommend this place, ask for the mint chocolate thing though I think it's free, not...

We come to this restaurant a few times a month and always have such great things to say. The staff is always so great and pleasant. We always order the same things. This time it was awful. Our waitress was pleasant at first but got very rude towards the end of our time. Which is funny because we are the ones who had the right to change our attitude, but we've been servers so we understand it's hard, thankless job. We got our drinks and original food out, after that anytime we had to ask the waitress for something the tone changed. We asked for refills on all our beverages and soups and bread. We got our soups eventually and our bread but we never saw her again. We sat for about 45 min waiting for her to even come near us and she always turned her back and abruptly walk away. We never got our drinks so we didn't finish our meal. We waited another thirty minutes to finally get boxes. Yet no pleasantries. No sorry we are really slammed tonight I appreciate you waiting. Saying anything would have made it fine. We get it. Totally understand . The night ended with this server just chucking a to go container at us. No have a good night. No thank you for coming. No andes chocolates which made my kids sad but that's a luxury so nothing I would complain about. Either way she was awful. For being such regulars we choose this place for our special moments. This was chosen for my sons graduation dinner and it really was very sour mood over the special dinner.

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