Olive Garden's Culinary Institute is a Sham

[Swede]

Damn it!


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Someone who claims to have penetrated the hallowed halls of Olive Garden's Culinary Institute of Tuscany says the school is hardly the MIT of Ravioli Sciences touted in commercials. In fact, there's no school at all.

An anonymous Reddit user who says she was a former Olive Garden manager wrote that the chain owns no cooking schools in Italy. Rather, they fill a Tuscan hotel with employees in the off-season:



http://ca.gawker.com/5793849/olive-gardens-culinary-institute-is-a-sham?skyline=true&s=i

[KurtNYC]

1. BUT they have all you can eat breadsticks ! n/t

[Arugula Latte]

2. Oh come on. Next you'll be telling us that professional wrestling isn't real.

Not buying it. Nope. No sirree.

[XemaSab]

3. This is just a rumor put forth by the mob

n/t

[geardaddy]

4. they need to get their bartending school in order though.

:hide:

[Bake]

5. Are they serving babies Margaritas again???

Dammit!!

:hi:

Bake

[geardaddy]

6. I think it was Sangria.

lol

:hi:

[pinniped]

7. I call BS. I just saw the Italian cooking skool on TV last week!

A waiter admitted to us that they weren't really an Italian restaurant.

What are they? Inquiring minds want to know.

I just went on their culinary academy tour on that website and saw Chef Nero. She is 100% real! There is a diploma and everything.

OTOH, check out this comment from that blog:

nycinoc
And Italian-American organizations complain about shows like "Jersey Shore" and "The Sopranos". This is the REAL insult to us Italians.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/15/what-actually-goes-on-at-olive-gardens-culinary-institute-in-tuscany/#ixzz1K6g2UImJ

[Incitatus]

8. Then who teaches their cooks how to use microwaves?

[Arugula Latte]

9. Not only that. They have to know how to open the industrial containers of pre-made sauce!

[Gormy Cuss]

10. And boil bags of precooked pasta!