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For More Authentic Experience, Olive Garden Now Requiring Waiters To Do That Italian Hand Gesture Thing Whenever They Talk

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ORLANDO, FL — In order to entice more customers who are looking for a real, authentic Italian dining experience, Olive Garden is now requiring all their wait staff to use that funny hand gesture Italian people always use.

"When our customers walk through our doors, we want them to feel like they just walked into that magical land known as Italy," said Olive Garden CEO Dave Smith, gesticulating wildly like an authentic Italian. "Per favore! Grazie! Salute! See? So real!"

To add to the real Italian feel of the restaurant, staff are also being asked to talk about soccer, wear stylish shoes, and sexually harass customers as often as possible.
"The new rules are kinda hard," said Travish Woodson, a waiter for the restaurant. "I don't feel very Italian. I'm from Indiana. Well, I lived in Idaho for a little bit too. Um... Mamma Mia!"

Witnesses say several onlookers "ooed" and "ahhed" when they heard Woodson's breathtaking accent and accompanying che vuoi hand gesture, perfectly executed with the fingers and thumb joined and pointing upward.

At publishing time, Taco Bell had announced they would make their restaurant more authentic by setting up Virgin Mary votive candles throughout the store.
 
Grandma wasn’t as nice as the folks at Olive Garden I guess. No “Per favore” with her. It was always “stai zitto e mangia” at the dinner table at her place.
 
That reminds me of this.....

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It would be more convincing if a notorious crime boss was gunned down in broad daylight while in their dining establishment.
 
In the final days of my corporate tour, I spent a lot of time in Bergen County, NJ, and one of my few good memories of that time was eating top notch local Italian meals on the expense account. I could never understand folks lining up for Olive Garden, when the real thing was right around the corner.
 
Dorks will choose a Taco Bell drive thru over a sit down meal at a locally owned Mexican restaurant too.
 
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ORLANDO, FL — In order to entice more customers who are looking for a real, authentic Italian dining experience, Olive Garden is now requiring all their wait staff to use that funny hand gesture Italian people always use.

"When our customers walk through our doors, we want them to feel like they just walked into that magical land known as Italy," said Olive Garden CEO Dave Smith, gesticulating wildly like an authentic Italian. "Per favore! Grazie! Salute! See? So real!"

To add to the real Italian feel of the restaurant, staff are also being asked to talk about soccer, wear stylish shoes, and sexually harass customers as often as possible.
"The new rules are kinda hard," said Travish Woodson, a waiter for the restaurant. "I don't feel very Italian. I'm from Indiana. Well, I lived in Idaho for a little bit too. Um... Mamma Mia!"

Witnesses say several onlookers "ooed" and "ahhed" when they heard Woodson's breathtaking accent and accompanying che vuoi hand gesture, perfectly executed with the fingers and thumb joined and pointing upward.

At publishing time, Taco Bell had announced they would make their restaurant more authentic by setting up Virgin Mary votive candles throughout the store.
 
Dorks will choose a Taco Bell drive thru over a sit down meal at a locally owned Mexican restaurant too.
I won't eat at Taco Bell... Period... I will eat at Texas Roadhouse over quite a few local steak houses after far to many crappy steaks at expensive places that the meal didn't back up the hype.... On business trips I've dropped $3-$500 at fancy steak houses many times... Never have I felt there was an exceptional meal delivered for that $$$... I'm a simple man, I like a tasty chunk of charred cow... I don't need a classy napkin laid on my lap....
 
Wow...I have never spent more than $60 on just my own meal!
 
Olive Garden is fast food thats kinda sorta Italian .

There are A LOT of better Italian places out there .

BUT, I do like their all you can eat salad and breadsticks. Even that Ive not had in at least 5 or 6 years
 
Did they say they were going to start serving up a real Italian menu also.
 
Wow...I have never spent more than $60 on just my own meal!
There are restaurants that 60 dollars wouldn't cover the tip. It can get stupid pretty quickly.
 
There are restaurants that 60 dollars wouldn't cover the tip. It can get stupid pretty quickly.

"stupid" being the key word....... that overpriced meal turns into an overpriced dump in a few short hours
 
the shocker!

I don't understand the other one, only thing Italian around here is the boy......oh, and the wife
One is the cornuto the other is the I-talian horn. You ain't a Guido without em!

And don't forget the Camaro too LOL

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