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First Olive Garden
This is the first Olive Garden ever made and it opened on December 13 1982. This Olive Garden still had a similar look but with a retro logo and a more washed out sign. -
Olive Garden original owner sells off shares
Dardens Resturants start to buy shares of Olive Garden. The Dardens Restruants are named after the founder of red lobster. At the time Olive Garden was the most inexpensive restruants in the business with the average check being 15 dollars. -
Olive Garden has to decide to keep or get ride of unlimited bread sticks
In 2014 investors started to question that the unlimited amount of breadsticks offered was excessive and that they should look to get rid of these delectable sides. When they tried to implement it, they received a lot of push back and eventually settling on keeping the unlimited breadsticks. Instead they just clean their carpets less. -
Making moves to international waters
The restaurant chain has announced its plans to open additional locations in Quito and El Dorado, Daule, which were originally slated for development in 2016. On March 22, 2022, Olive Garden opened restaurants in Guayaquil, Ecuador, situated at Riocentro Los Ceibos. -
Auburn Olive garden
The newest news about Olive Garden is that it is opening a restaurant is Auburn and is set to open on May 22