Olive Garden Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in Sioux Falls Township

Very disappointed with how this place has slowly been declining in not just food quality but with service.. My mom ordered the zuppa toscana with unlimited bread sticks/salad while I got the sirloin/side of alfredo. We got drinks, requested straws, waiter goes to get. Wait 5 min. He comes back with the bread sticks and salad.. there are only THREE bread sticks, and salad was so sad. It had SLICED TOMATOES and no olives?? We ask for straws again. He goes to get. We wait for 10 minutes, sharing halves of the breadsticks. The standup delivery rack kept by us during this time till the MANAGER came out, grabbed it and the waiter then went to the back. The soup is then delivered along with my meal by a different waitress and I instantly was turned off by the appearance. Imagine some form of steak just surrounded by grease and butter merging with the alfredo sauce to create a big puddle between them. Yah. She's the one who also gave us the straws. The former waiter comes out again, giving us a refill on breadsticks- FOUR this time. No ask to refill the drinks- not like we wanted them to because we were just trying to get out of there.. We finished eating, it wasnt bad but it couldve been better for the money we spent. My meal was just? Sad? There were halfbaked noodles, even a mix of spaghetti ones with the fettuccine.. the sirloin was meh. If it wasnt for the butter amalgamation it wouldve been dry af. We ended up being the last ones after the rush and after we paid the same bum waiter came back and was like 'ill go get you mints'. so we waited again.. five minutes pass. Me and my mom just looked at each other and left. No mints. The whole experience was simply sad. Id give it a one star but the food wasnt that bad, mediocre, couldve went to Chilis and gotten a better meal for an even lower price but wanted to...

As there were only two of us, we were seated at a tall table in the bar section, so we could be seated right then. Initially my husband told the waitress we don't drink, but I thought since it was my birthday I might get a drink for us to share.

We explained to the lady the only experiences with alcohol I've had were two very dry champagnes and moonshine. My husband asked for a recommendation for something that wasn't dry, and she suggested the spiked strawberry lemonade which we ordered to come with the meal.

We received the salad and gnocchi soup which were very good. We noticed the bread sticks are still being baked harder on the ends.

Our meal came. He ordered his usual chicken alfredo, and I passed on one of my favorites, chicken parmesan, and chose shrimp scampi. The food was hot. My dish could have used more garlic and it had a few "woody" asparagus pieces. Overall, it was pleasing to the eye with the green asparagus, red tomatoes, pink shrimp, and the white pasta and was good.

The drink was light and fruity. It wasn't dry, and the mint in the drink was refreshing. It was a pretty drink with its pink, yellow, green mint, and red strawberry slice.

I discovered a birthday person gets a free dessert, so I chose the strawberry vanilla creme sponge cake. Just as our server brought out the dessert and I was saying, "Awww..." over the chocolate "Happy birthday," she turned her head away, and sneezed into her armpit. She tried to hold the tray steady, but that's hard to do when sneezing. She said the greeting looked good until then. 😄

We enjoyed our dinner. In fact, I think this was the best meal and service...

We ordered food to go and let me tell you what this place has very lazy and rude workers with overpriced food that is old and they give you old hard stale breadsticks. My spaghetti and meatballs sucked. I could have gotten a better freezer box spaghetti and meatball from the grocery store. My meatballs were terrible and the spaghetti noodles were hard. My Fagioli soup had a fly in it YUCK! My fiancé ordered the toasted raviolis and they were hard and didn’t give us any marinara sauce like it advertised. And when we went back inside to get our sauce the lazy worker said the kitchen is closed. We also asked for grated Parmesan and the answer was also the kitchen is closed. And to think I tipped these clowns before we received bad service. The general manager should be ashamed how they all treat paying customers like me and my family were treated it’s unacceptable. They didn’t even give us napkins, plastic silverware, grated Romano cheese packets or mints. Common sense tells you to give paying customers what they payed for. This was my birthday meal and it was ruined thanks scam garden! I could have chose anywhere to eat for my birthday and I chose this place wow what a mistake. The worst birthday meal I ever had by far. Me and my fiancé thew the food away in the garbage and went elsewhere to eat the food wasn’t edible. I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone stay far away. What a complete a waste of my time and money. I wish I had my money back. Olive Garden if you are reading this give me a full cash refund...