r/mildlyinteresting • u/Oracle_of_Ages • Nov 19 '22

Olive Garden gave me a daily sales report instead of a receipt Quality Post

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u/IntoTheMystic1 Nov 19 '22

Kinda surprised they're more busy during lunch. Olive Garden always seemed like a dinner place to me. But maybe they're near some corporate offices.

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u/TyRoSwoe Nov 19 '22

Former OG GM here. 300+ covers (guest count) for lunch is not too bad. They will probably finish with 900ish covers for the day. They have have pretty high addon sales. Anything over $5 is great. I will say that their appetizer sales is pretty high. If someone orders an app for dinner they don’t get guest count. 133 apps is like 1 in 5 guests getting an app. If every Friday was like this, they are probably a 5-6 million in annual sales restaurant. Last OG I was GM at, we were a 6mil a year restaurant and profited 18%. You do the math. OG makes some serious $$$. Multiple by 900 or so restaurant. I’m pretty sure the Time Square OG is about 15mil or more a year in sales. I started at the bottom. They were a great company to work for.

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u/mangotrees777 Nov 19 '22

I'm not in the industry, but the alcohol sales seem low. Is that normal in your experience?

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u/MyMusicMan Nov 19 '22

they are a family restaurant so it's definitely not abnormal for an olive garden

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u/Yangervis Nov 19 '22

OP said further down that this was printed around 6 pm. The alcohol still seems low though.

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u/trplOG Nov 19 '22

I'm not in the industry but my wife is as a manager and I can't believe how much I retained from listening to her rant about work to understand everything he wrote.

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u/TyRoSwoe Nov 19 '22

For OG, $1 per guest overall is pretty good. The wine sales are a little low on this printout.