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/Eggsandthings2 Nov 19 '22

How to 500+ guests at Olive Only drink 89 alcoholic beverages?

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u/hotterthanahandjob Nov 19 '22

Utah

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u/Rockdog4105 Nov 19 '22

What time does dinner there start then? No way they’re doing 5K in sales for dinner unless it starts at 3pm. Especially since there’s hardly any alcohol sales.

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u/boblobong ​ Nov 19 '22

On their website it says they serve lunch from 11-3. Your sales to time food service estimating skills are impressive

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u/Rockdog4105 Nov 19 '22

Not my first time…actually it is.

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u/boblobong ​ Nov 19 '22

Never woulda guessed. You did it like an old pro

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u/JuneBuggington Nov 19 '22

Where is their figure of 5k coming from cause it looks like they had just under 10k in food sales

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u/Josh_Crook Nov 19 '22

At the bottom under dinner

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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Nov 19 '22

I'd buy an Olive Garden if you could do $5k in sales from 4:30 or 5:00 to 6:00.

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u/Known-Economy-6425 Nov 19 '22

He’ll yeah. This unit did pretty well to have 14k by 6pm. I wonder where it is?

Also, I can’t believe people like this shitty food so much. Maybe their prices are just really low? Been 10 years since my one and only Olive Garden visit so can’t recall.

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u/Mogling Nov 19 '22

Id say $14 per person in food is low for a sit down restaurant. I live in a place with jacked up prices so I may be off base.

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u/BitchesQuoteMarilyn Nov 19 '22

Yes it is low. Entrees at Olive Garden are like $20. People are coming in for soup and bread sticks and water. Would hate to serve there. People probably asking for extra lemons and making tableside lemonade with the sugar packets and tipping to the nearest dollar.

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u/hawk7886 Nov 19 '22

Oh fuck, the tableside lemonade joke brought back some memories I'd thought I'd repressed harder. Fuck all of that noise.

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u/JohnnyPiston Nov 19 '22

Worked there in college unfortunately. Thread is giving me nightmares.

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u/Chalupa_Dad Nov 19 '22

All you can eat salad and breadsticks

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u/IHScoutII Nov 19 '22

My nieces husband manages an Olive Garden in Myrtle Beach. I sent him this and he said this would have been a horrible Friday for them. He said they routinely do $40k in sales on a Friday and during peak season during the summer they will sometimes hit $80k-$100k.

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u/Known-Economy-6425 Nov 19 '22

That’s Myrtle Beach though. And that’s in season. I was CFO of hospitality company our best daily numbers always came from beach locations in season for obvious reasons. I’ll also bet that location served quite a bit more liquor than the one here.

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u/Alphatron1 Nov 19 '22

At the Olive Garden I worked at it would pick up At 11-11:30. Then lunch rush could end anywhere from 1:30-2:30. You’ll get a lull and they’ll start doing lunches or whatever for the other cook And dishwasher. Then around 3:30-4:30 it’ll pick back up.

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u/Jaystime101 Nov 19 '22

Just commented on this, no way it’s daily, sales are WAY to hit, and too many guest for an Olive Garden. Honestly for most restaurants.

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u/Antonioooooo0 Nov 19 '22

540 covers mid diner really isn't all that much for a place like olive garden on a Friday.

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u/JohnnyPiston Nov 19 '22
  1. Worked there in college.