Raising The (Salad) Bar

I love the salad at Olive Garden. My wife loves the salad at Olive Garden. All God's children love the salad at Olive Garden. But even so, this was a bit ridiculous.

My in-laws took us out to dinner to celebrate my wife's birthday. Her brother and his wife were there also. Waitress-Lady brought us two big bowls of salad.

During the normal course of things, we finished off those bowls of salad and got two more. That was *it*... four bowls of salad for the six of us.

When my father-in-law got the check, he burst out laughing. There was a line item on the ticket that said, "Salad Refill - $0". The line was repeated 14 times.

Somewhere in Olive Garden headquarters there's a bean-counter who hasn't blinked in several days. "Fourteen?!?", he's thinking, "We have GOT to stop giving away the salad!"