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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 02:00 PM Dec 2013

Name Olive Garden's new menu item!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/olive-garden-adds-burger-challenge-050001749.html

Today the Italian chain will start serving a $9.99 six-ounce burger to better compete with fast-casual and other sit-down dining chains. Owned by Darden Restaurants Inc. (DRI), Olive Garden has been refining its menu as it struggles to attract Americans amid fierce competition in the aftermath of the economic downturn.

Darden Chief Executive Officer Clarence Otis has been advertising three-course meals aimed at budget-conscious diners and small plates to lure the young, bar-hopping crowd. The chain's same-store sales dropped 4 percent in the three months ended Aug. 25, and, in October, hedge fund Barington Capital Group LP took a 2.8 percent stake and began pushing for changes.

Olive Garden conducted research to figure out which competitors were picking up the diners it was losing, said Jim Nuetzi, executive chef at the 820-store chain. "A lot of times we were losing them to a burger craving."

Competitors have been selling and refining burgers for years. Chili's, the eatery owned by Brinker International Inc. (EAT), sells bacon, guacamole and mini burgers with sauteed onions. DineEquity Inc.'s (DIN) Applebee's restaurants have quesadilla burgers and a bourbon black and bleu burger slathered with spicy mayo.


The Times Square Burger? The Pit Bull?
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Name Olive Garden's new menu item! (Original Post) KamaAina Dec 2013 OP
the Sicilian poop. loli phabay Dec 2013 #1
The 'You'll Need Obamacare After This Burger.' nt onehandle Dec 2013 #2
Sticking with the OG naming trend of pairing Italian words with half-English/half-Italian gibberish. Chan790 Dec 2013 #3
LOL!! Compliments to the Poster! LiberalElite Dec 2013 #12
Fried Breast-fed Pitbull Battered in Cornflakes pinboy3niner Dec 2013 #4
The "No Burger is worth $9.99" burger. Avalux Dec 2013 #5
The DU Special. Initech Dec 2013 #6
How about this one? LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #7
One of the options I listed for my wife today was OG, MrYikes Dec 2013 #8
Oi! OriginalGeek Dec 2013 #10
Burgeroni rug Dec 2013 #9
Burger ci arrendiamo jmowreader Dec 2013 #11
The Duh burger because LiberalElite Dec 2013 #13
Glom of stuff that could be meat. Scuba Dec 2013 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author Shrek Dec 2013 #15
 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
3. Sticking with the OG naming trend of pairing Italian words with half-English/half-Italian gibberish.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 02:20 PM
Dec 2013

Hamburgo al formaggio del tutti.

It's prison-grade beef topped with a 8-cheese blend (four of which are cheddar and none are Italian-origin cheeses) and a bolognaise sauce. It's served with your choice of patatine fritte di merda (french fries of shit) or Cena Kraft con broccoli e hotdog (Kraft Mac and Cheese with broccoli and hot dogs) for $12.95. Like all OG entrees, it comes with soup, salad and bread-sticks.

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
5. The "No Burger is worth $9.99" burger.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 03:21 PM
Dec 2013

Especially one sold by a crappy Italian Food chain. I don't eat there for a reason.....

MrYikes

(720 posts)
8. One of the options I listed for my wife today was OG,
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 10:00 PM
Dec 2013

she opted for Steak n shake. Rather timely for this thread.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
11. Burger ci arrendiamo
Wed Dec 4, 2013, 08:17 AM
Dec 2013

"Ci arrendiamo" means "we surrender" in Italian - depicting how the famed pseudo-Italian chain is surrendering to the whims of a fickle dining public who'd rather pay to eat basic-training mess hall burgers than attempt to survive classic Olive Garden specialties like "Capellini pomodoro" (a can of stewed tomatoes dumped over a bowl of spaghetti noodles), "Grilled Pork Veneto" (a can of tomato sauce dumped over three or four cut-up McRib patties - the number you actually get depends on whether anyone bothered to pay the rent on the freezer this month), or Strassenunfälle Alfredo (a prime filet of the dead animal we found in the road in front of the store yesterday morning, covered in the jellied milk with black pepper in it we call alfredo sauce and served garnished with gravel and part of a broken headlight).

Only one of those three dishes isn't on an actual Olive Garden menu. Your job: find it.

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