"Helpful person" > wrote in message
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> On Sunday, October 12, 2014 1:17:16 PM UTC-4, George L wrote:
>> Becca and I were on a short road trip and we decided to have lunch at an
>> Olive Garden. I hadn't been to one in over 20 years.
>>
>> I was surprised... the food was pretty good! I had pasta and a 5 Cheese
>> sauce with Italian sausage. The sauce was fine... and the sausage was
>> excellent. Salad and bread "sticks" were also good.
>>
>> We prefer to eat in local places when we can rather than the large chain
>> restaurants, but this turned out to be much better than I expected.
>>
>> George L
>
> One chain restaurant that I actually like is Macaroni Grill. Their
> "make your own pasta" option where you chose pasta type, sauce type
> and added ingredients is actually very good. They're not national but
> they cover a large part of the US.
>
> http://www.richardfisher.com

I ate there once many years ago. It was okay but I didn't have pasta. I
think I just had soup and salad. The problem with ours here is that it is
at the mall. Not bordering the mall but actually at the mall. They opened
a new wing when they re-did the mall and it is all restaurants. So if you
want to eat there you have to drive around and around for a parking spot and
then you may wait a long time once you get in there. Worse still, it can
take you next to forever to get out of that area due to the way the stop
signs and lack thereof are in that area of the mall.