Olive Garden Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"I enjoy my work here. My co-workers a very nice for the most part and also very helpful when they're not busy with their own work. However, management is not always on the same page which can make things confusing at times. Especially when one manager wants things a certain way but the others have their own way they'd like things done. This doesn't happen often, but when it does the job becomes unnecessarily stressful."

"I worked at Olive Garden for nearly 3 years and I had found the experience to be very fulfilling. The management and the coworkers were what led me to stay with them for so long. Our team was strong and we managed to work as hard as we could because we knew we were a great team."

"I’ve worked for Olive Garden for over 2 years and I had learned that my Communications skills Gotta greater overtime! My passion for technology had been my life for the past 12 years, always update about what’s new and how it works."

"I worked for Olive Garden during the summer of 2017 as a part time job during college. The environment was nice, but some of the methods used for server weren't always agreeable."

"I worked for Olive Garden since July 2017 and enjoyed every minute of it. The co-workers and managers that I worked with were good people to work and be friends with; it felt like working with a family. The environment was always supportive, which enabled everyone to overcome any challenges that came into existence."

"Management does not care about their employees and treats the majority of them poorly. Select staff members are favored and control management. Employees steal from each other and the company, are not properly trained, and it is overall a horrible place to work. The few employees who work hard and actually care about working there are treated worse and expected to do more. Management will randomly go on "firing sprees" and cause issues for no apparent reason. There is very little feedback from management for those who would like to advance with the company, or would like to improve in how they do their job."

"I've worked at Olive Garden for 3 years now, and I love it. Olive Garden is a corporate restaurant with many locations all over. Darden, the parent company of Olive Garden, owns a few other restaurants as well."

"I worked at the Olive Garden in Salina, Ks for nearly 8 months. In this time frame I witnessed and was a victim of every type of job harassment including discrimination. I will say the training was great as this was my first serving position and set me up for the great success that I have now. However, I still have nightmares about the discrimination and harassment that took place against me and my co-workers. Everything from being clocked out and having to stay several extra hours without being paid, to racial discrimination, etc., as well as a manager who would scream repeatedly that we were going to be "wrote up", not "written" but "wrote"... etc. After I left I sued for unemployment AND WON due to the fact that I refused to sign the false accusations and "wrote ups" that they would try to bully me into signing. I was an excellent employee that was always on time and an excellent server. General manager that was the biggest racial discriminatory ring leader has since passed away. Bless her heart. With that being said... if you are an ex con, drug addict, Salinian... you will probably do well here and won't be bullied."

"I worked for Olive Garden for a year and a half. Seemingly, Olive Garden tries to foster competition among the servers to earn trips and the like, but that's it. For the rest of the staff there are no incentives that the managers ever mentioned. At the Vancouver Mall Olive Garden, as luck would have it, the manager is especially rude towards the workers, more so when he's stressed, to the point where many staffers have been seen coming out of his office in tears. He promised a promotion twice and failed to keep his word twice, hence the reason I quit. With Olive Garden you get the average chain restaurant treatment, not noticeably better or worse than, say, iHop or Denny's (I was a cook for 7 years, I know about it). But this particular manager is a definite handicap."

"I worked at Olive Garden for nearly a year. The work was fine, it was a little more work than some server jobs due to the endless salad and bread sticks. The biggest issue I had with Olive Garden is that I was let go while I was in an extended stay at the hospital. I was already looking for a new job, but it still felt a little cold to fire me then."

"Great fellow employees. Managers are terrible at communication. I have one I mesh with but another who knit picks and gets off on making us feel bad, as bad as they feel about themselves evidently. The money is ok... nothing incredible. I like having no side work but the bussers hawk you for more tips after you already tipped off your sales. I'm sure I could be unhappier somewhere else but since the managers are always making people quit and we're always short staffed. Corporate needs to come and gut those managers and start all over!!!"

"I have been working at the OG for over a year. I have a great relationship with my managers, the "Big Wigs," and other servers. To Go currently has the greatest capacity to make the most money. Carside was only recently implemented and the work load from pleasing guests alone can get incredibly stressful. You will experience bad days here, too. Only theft I have heard of was a purse being stolen out of the break room."

"Olive Garden is a fantastic company."

"Worst managers I have ever worked under except one or two. Had two different managers illegally take a portion of my tips. During a group meeting a manager smelled alcohol on one of the employees and gave them a piece of gum which he is notorious for doing. The same manager is hated by everyone who works there because he is the most negative man alive. Employees swear when guests can hear them all the time and no one cares. Seriously a circus behind the scenes due to poor management."

"Hostile work environment. I experienced wage theft by management as well as harassment on all levels. I am thankful for the deplorable working conditions as it has made me appreciate the new opportunities that were presented to me as a result of being wrongfully terminated. I sued for unemployment AND WON."