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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsName Olive Garden's new menu item!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/olive-garden-adds-burger-challenge-050001749.htmlDarden 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?
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)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.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)Especially one sold by a crappy Italian Food chain. I don't eat there for a reason.....
Initech
(100,079 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Presenting the Breast-Fed
MrYikes
(720 posts)she opted for Steak n shake. Rather timely for this thread.
Why she didn't pick me?
Oh, different OG. my bad.
rug
(82,333 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)"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.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)At $9.99 it has to be good! Doesn't it? DUH
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Or not.
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