r/olivegarden

First off, I have a theory there’s more than 10000 passes. My small town has at least 50 and I’m very confused. I also see it all over social media. 10k is a very small number across the US.

Second off, how do you all go about tipping. I only get water so am paying for nothing via card so I keep just bringing cash with me but is there a better way to go about it all? I hate cash lol

I recently became a hostess at Olive Garden. I used my Darden card to get gas yesterday, I only put in $15. And before that I had $74 on the card. Somehow I’m at $0???? Has this happened to anyone else?

I bought one off of Amazon but was 1.2 inches too short for my Olive Garden notepad. Unfortunately every server books I’ve found on Amazon is around 8 inches tall. Idk where else other than Amazon to look

EDIT: sorry I should’ve mentioned this- I have the OG given American Express one but it’s ugly and I want a cute one that’s why I’m making this post

Hi! So i’ve been working at my OG for around 3 months as a server, I really enjoy it and one day I was talking with a coworker behind the bar and she was showing me what she has to do to close it, a manager came up and asked if I was interested in doing bartending and I said yeah sure although I have 0 experience, like this is actually my first job ever and I have 0 alcohol knows too. Then a few days passed and I decided to asked another manager if I could train to be bartender and she said sure. I told some of my (server) coworkers and their reactions were all negative saying that I should take it back and don’t work at the bar bc i’m gonna get overwhelmed way too fast and that servers get really mean with the bartenders during a rush. That kinda scared me a bit buuut apparently the GM liked the idea and I just got done with my two day training for bartending and I might get my first bartending shift next week.

Both the trainer and the GM told me that I have to set my boundaries with the servers and host (like only taking care of the bar and not accepting any tables if i’m not ready to) which I liked, but I still feel nervous so I was wondering if you guys have any advice? Only thing I fully know how to make is the smoothies and strawberry mango margarita but that’s just bc I trained on Monday/Tuesday and we barely got any drink orders.

Any advice is appreciated! Also has anyone else done this? Is it a good idea? I guess it’s too late to backtrack but any thoughts are welcomed