Olive Garden

New ripple in off-premise: The take-home prep line

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 13, 2017

Shrink the serving line popularized by Chipotle, make it mobile, and you have the latest way some chains are striving to differentiate their catering options.

Tomato dishes

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 22, 2008

It is neither a fruit nor a vegetable. It can be red, green, yellow or even purple. It is the queen of the seasonal garden with a juiciness and flavor that capture summer. The tomato has it all! These restaurants make the most of this star ingredient.

Olive Garden’s all-you-can-eat passes sold out in record time

Sep. 18, 2015

All 2,000 passes were purchased in less than one second.

Marketing

Olive Garden dusts off eat-free pass—with a sweetener

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 13, 2017

The offer should net the chain more than $2.2 million in a flash.

The week in ideas, October 14, 2011

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 14, 2011

The week of October 14th will be remembered as a week of strange ideas: some bold, some bad, some counterintuitive. But at Week in Ideas, we don't discriminate. We report, you decide.

Technology