Three OG classics all on one plate! Chicken Parmigiana, Lasagna Classico** and our signature Fettuccine Alfredo – all with homemade sauces made fresh every morning. **Our meat sauce is made with pan-seared beef and Italian sausage.

Read on for more surprising facts about Olive Garden.

• They've been ranked the number one Italian chain restaurant.
• They used to share buildings with Red Lobster restaurants.
• The look of the original restaurant models resemble a Tuscan farmhouse.
• It started as a Florida-based restaurant.

Olives: very strongly connected to Italian Food as they are prominent in many Mediterranean diets, from the entire olive to the oil. Garden: There is something more personal about a garden than there is about other places where people grow plants.

Our soup and sauce masters create dishes by hand and from scratch, every day. With fresh, whole ingredients like kale, peppers and squash. Because they know cooking that way – the Italian way- everything tastes better.

3 course meal: A 3 course dinner menu includes an appetizer, main course, and dessert.

Full course meals are made up of three courses: an appetizer, main dish, and dessert.

Olive Garden is an American casual dining restaurant chain specializing in Italian–American cuisine. It is a subsidiary of Darden Restaurants, Inc., which is headquartered in Orange County, Florida.

So their number one secret for keeping the diners coming in is stressing Olive Garden's value. Unlimited salad and breadsticks are a major draw. Last year, Olive Garden served 612 million breadsticks and 165 million family style bowls of salad.

The Italian-American chain is known for their unlimited salads, endless pasta offerings and those famously warm, soft breadsticks that make customer feel like family.

With more than 900 restaurants nationwide, we are uniquely positioned to help fight hunger in the communities we serve. In 2003, we created our Harvest program, where all restaurants gather wholesome, surplus food every day and carefully prepare it for weekly donation to a local non-profit organization.

They actually don't microwave their food. A few employees debunked this myth. In a Reddit AMA, one former employee said "Microwaves are strictly for heating the dipping sauce and some of the warm desserts.

**Our meat sauce is made with pan-seared beef and Italian sausage.