Olive Garden Hidden Secret: The beloved Chicken and Gnocchi Soup is awful for you.
Even though it’s a very popular menu item, we recommend skipping the chain’s Chicken and Gnocchi soup if you value your health! It’s packed with 1,290mg of sodium.
This is well over half the doctor-recommended maximum for a whole day. And it’s also relatively high in saturated fat.
Olive Garden Hidden Secret: They limit their breadsticks
An Olive Garden investor realized that the brand lost a lot of money on unlimited breadsticks. So, they limited the cult favorite, creating a rule of thumb for how many breadsticks come in a basket.
Generally, a server is supposed to bring one stick per person and one extra for the first basket. After that, it’s one breadstick per person. And you won’t get away with only trying to eat the free breadsticks, either.
Servers have a system in place to deal with folks trying to scam the restaurant. They can’t drop the second basket of breadsticks until someone orders. There have even been reports claiming that servers aren’t supposed to bring a basket until customers order.
